Past Projects

Through funding awarded from Arts Council England we delivered a small tour and 10 dance workshops to rural Northumberland schools this summer.

We delivered 10 workshops fusing dance and football together for Northumberland schools at Dance City, Newcastle. We gave the students a tour of the building including the theatre and delivered a full days workshop for free.

We then rehearsed our show Jumpers For Goalposts in Alnwick Playhouse refining the 235 minutes performance for outdoor shows, ready for festivals this summer.

We performed at Feltonbury Arts Festival, Mouth Of The Tyne Festival and Stockton International Arts Festival and have had wonderful audiences and feedback.

If you would like to book our show for festivals in 2024, email us at hello@meta4dance.com.

Trailer for the show here

We worked with Better Days, an organisation led by adults with learning disabilities in Newcastle, from October 2022 to July 2023.

We will delivered a dance workshop bi-weekly to the Better Days group where we created a dance performance and dance film together to show to audiences.

We are looking forward to working with the Better Days group again in the near future.

Jumpers for Goalposts is a new football dance show for the whole family to enjoy.

Over 2 weeks, we rehearsed in Dance City and Alnwick Playhouse to create the best football dance show possible!

We then delivered a day-long football dance workshop to 5 Northumbrian schools in Dance City to give the children the opportunity of being in a huge dance space and see what opportunities there are for them.

We finished off the project with a Northumberland tour! We delivered a football dance workshop, free drinks, and a show to Felton, Seaton Delaval, Thropton and Acklington.

What a tour it was! We have had fantastic feedback; adults joining our weekly class, schools enquiring about day-long school workshops, and children wanting to carry on dancing!

If you would us to deliver a workshop or performance to your school or community, get in touch.

This project is supported by Arts Council England, Dance City, Alnwick Playhouse, Northumberland County Council, November Club, RISE, and Northumberland Football Association.

Tranquil is a collaboration between Meta4 Dance Company and Pelican Theatre creating a contemporary dance experience for rural communities in the North East.

Meta4 collaborated with Pelican to create 2 high quality workshops that were curated for rural communities with support from Helix Arts throughout August. We worked over 3 months with 3 different focus groups to discuss and learn about the barriers stopping audiences from participating and watching dance. From our learnings, we created a package which consisted of 2 workshops followed by a double bill of Meta4’s ‘Confluence’ and Pelican’s ‘Blue Mind’. This package was delivered to two communities, in Northumberland and Newcastle in October 2022.

If you would like to hear more about this, email us - hello@meta4dance.com

This project is supported by Arts Council England, Dance City , and Gateshead Council. In collaboration with producer Lissie Connor, Gary Aggett, Helix Arts.

Confluence was a research & development project where we developed our original solo into a group piece with 5 dancers. Over 3 weeks we looked at our relationship with nature, and shared stories memories and journeys with each other and audiences through 2 sharings and workshops.

‘I liked the feeling of the dancers as they passed by like the wind.’ - audience member

The newly developed work is 30 minutes long, with the ability to perform inside or outside in rural locations and festivals.

This project is supported by Arts Council England, Northumberland County Council, Liberdade, Dance City and November Club.

With the support of Arts Council England, Natural Theatres enabled us to live stream performance work from site-specific locations across Northumberland with state of the art technology. The project initially ran from January 2021 to May 2021 where we worked with local small to mid-scale dance companies, it culminated with a premier of our solo ‘Confluence’. Watch here.

We spent 10 days in the Uillinn; West Cork Arts Centre, Ireland working together with community members and separately as artists to create a sharing piece at the end of the residency. The studio and environment were incredibly creative and thought-provoking for us which allowed us to delve deeply into the creative process generating raw honest work to share at the end of our stay. Watch here.

Design company iDEA commissioned us to create a film that highlights space, details and textures in Old Admiralty Building, London. We worked with the historic building to generate an encapsulating perspective of its space. Watch here.

Commissioned by design company iDEA for their 25th anniversary, this work highlights the interactions between the members of the company. It is a highly personal, comedic and engaging physical theatre work. Watch here.