WeStaged
Making Work Together
About
Producing performance and participatory work under the WeStaged moniker, Katy Noakes collaborates with artists and organisations to create the best conditions for artists to make their best work, and for people to enjoy it. Valuing inclusion and audience development, WeStaged creates pathways and productions that build bridges between genres and new audiences, with particular focus on dance and performance in public spaces.
Please scroll down for projects or hit the button below for an overview of work.
Mother Deer – Acrobatic Adventures
Follow Mother Deer on her quest to bring the sunshine back to the forest in this sensory feast of festive storytelling full of mischief, wonder & magic. Blending aerial acrobatics, dance, live music & sensory theatre, Mother Deer reminds us of our deep connection to the natural world in the English Winter months.
This family show for ages 5+ has been created by Acrobtaic Adventures and commissioned by Circomedia. First performed to capacity audiences over December 2025, Mother Deer will be available for touring Autumn 2026 – Spring 2027.
Promo Video: https://vimeo.com/1062748515 To request a Programming Pack please email katy@westaged.com or hobbit@acrobaticadventures.com
Sharing Pathways
If you’ve ever wondered how to support B&VI artists, audiences and participants, over at Half Light Projects we’ve created Sharing Pathways to help.
The guide contains:
– Audio case studies with Pavilion Dance South West & Arnolfini
– Checklists for your settings
– Directory of B&VI organisations
– How to program B&VI accessible dance
To request your copy of Sharing Pathways and/or to join an online network for peer sharing and learning, please email katy@halflightprojects.com stating your preference for large print word or PDF versions and any access requirements you may have for online meetings.
Image Description.
White text on a pink to violet background reads: Sharing Pathways, a guide to growing blind and visually impaired cultural access and inclusion. A dotted wiggly line sits beneath the title and Half Light Projects logo centred at the bottom of the graphic.
Promo Video: https://vimeo.com/1062748515 To request a Programming Pack please email katy@westaged.com or hobbit@acrobaticadventures.com
Half Light
Immerse yourself in a world where sight is not assumed.
Telling the story of a mother and boy, of a storm and a sunrise, of love, protection and letting go; Half Light invites you to awaken your senses and tune into a reality where movement is revealed by sound.
Touring Autumn 2025.
- Saturday 4 October, Pavilion Dance South West, Bournemouth
- Tuesday 28 October, The Place, London
- Friday 14 November, Arnolfini, Bristol
Two shows per day plus Touch Tours at all venues
Image Description: Four performers walk purposefully towards the camera in unison, each with one arm extended in front of them, portable bluetooth speakers in the palm of their hands. Photo: Vonalina Cake
Shuffle
Evoking the heady collectivism and iconography of UK club culture, ‘Shuffle’ sees the audience take part as voting club goers, engaged in a call and response with DJ and dancers. Part performance, part game – will we like what we make together?
New Art Club, Anatomical & StreamDance for Tandem Works
Producing on behalf of Tandem Works:
New Art Club – Cupid’s Revenge. In today’s disposable world where love is used to sell us everything from plug-in cars to yoghurt… where did real love go? National Autumn Tour 2021 and Spring Rural Tour 2022
Anatomical – Snowed In. Four friends wake to find they are completely snowed in, and a magnificent adventure unfolds in this playful, interactive family show. 2021 R&D, 2022 Winter run at The Place, and 2023 tour development
StreamDance – Second Hand Dance, Anatomical, Chad Taylor. Three specially commissioned dance films for ages 3 – 11. The films premiered in January 2022, enjoyed by some 240 pupils of Kings Cross Academy, London, before being watched by audiences across the globe for a 24-hour streaming.
Lea Anderson’s
Trying It On
A performed exhibition from leading choreographer, Lea Anderson
DancingStrong
Found & Light Steps
Participatory dance and live music for small people who ask big questions
Lea Anderson & Compañía Danza PUCP
Laberinto
Peru based Compañía Danza PUCP premiere a new work directed by choreographer and self-styled professor of historical misconstruction, Lea Anderson, for their first UK Tour.
Roxana Vilk
Lullabies (R&D)
Across our city’s skies at night…..
A multi-disciplinary work by Roxana Vilk and Bristol’s migrant communities
Ladies and Gentlemen
Cholmondeley Productions
Inspired by Music Hall, Lea Anderson’s ‘Ladies & Gentlemen’ is a beguiling and jocular soirée of magic, music and dance. A witty and absorbing visual spectacle where choreography, music and design conjure the all but forgotten stage show of six eccentric, has-been performers, besieged by ever shifting, inscrutable props.
DancingStrong
Ila Project
Meaning ‘line’ in Yoruba, DancingStrong’s Ila Project connected schools and museums in the UK and USA, working with children as creative consultants
Dance Village
at Bristol Harbour Festival
Performance and participation showcasing the diversity of dance today
Funk The Trinity
Supporting young battle producers
The Bristol Beat
A short film made for Bristol Harbour Festival , featuring choreography by New Art Club and original music by Makala Cheung, with performances by the people of Bristol. And some boats.
The Giant’s Story
Performance, participation and film created by Pavilion Dance South West with Second Hand Dance Company and regional artists, to connect the bi-annual Big Dance with the Summer Reading Challenge
Re:Position
An 18 month talent development programme that saw Tony Adigun and Avant Garde Dance Company work with young men to create performance and film, and to achieve Gold Arts Awards
Sixty Second Spotlights
A series of short films to spotlight dance artists, made for the BBC Big Screen at Millenium Square, Bristol.
Dancing with the Crystal Ball
A future facing day to support dance artists’ resilience and explore what dance might look and feel like tomorrow. Produced for NARC.
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