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Join ClinksDoD is a nationally recognised leader in site-sensitive performances. It’s a rarity to have site responsive work that can tour across the UK & the company addresses this with its model of partnering with an arts venue and an affiliate local organisation as performance space. For more than a decade, they have been collaborating with a wide variety of people from non-arts backgrounds to realise projects & performances.
The core aims of Dante or Die are to:
• Present inspiring, unexpected performances in areas where there is little existing contemporary theatre offer
• Develop new audiences through participation & local community outreach; and by engaging with non-traditional venues & offering new cultural experiences in each location
• Develop producing skills of local people
The core aims of Dante or Die are to:
• Present inspiring, unexpected performances in areas where there is little existing contemporary theatre offer
• Develop new audiences through participation & local community outreach; and by engaging with non-traditional venues & offering new cultural experiences in each location
• Develop producing skills of local people
Contact
Address
Dante or Die
Stone Nest, 136 Shaftesbury Avenue
London
Greater London
W1D5EZ
United Kingdom
Work Tel. No.
07934 536 018
admin@danteordie.com
Website
In Brief
Primary Field of Work
Arts
No. of service users
0
No. of Paid Staff
2
No. of Volunteers
1
Organisation type
Social Enterprise - non-profit
Legal status
Charitable incorporated organisation
Year of Formation
2006
Contract History
Supporting information
THE INSPIRATION
In March 2015 the first same-sex marriage or civil partnership in a prison took place. The men who married each other are both serving life sentences at Full Sutton Prison in East Yorkshire for homophobic murders.
THE PROJECT
We are currently in a development period, researching LGBT+ experience within UK prisons in order to create a new theatre production. The company is collaborating with playwright James Baldwin who regularly works on creative projects in prisons.
This project aims to bring the inside out by exploring what it is to be out on the inside.
The development period is funded by Arts Council England, South Street Arts Centre in Reading and University of Reading and includes:
• Hosting interviews & discussions with prison staff
• Interviews with psychiatrists & academics who engage with the prison system
• Prison site visits; both working and decommissioned, male and female
• Interviews with LGBT+ support groups
• Creative devel
In March 2015 the first same-sex marriage or civil partnership in a prison took place. The men who married each other are both serving life sentences at Full Sutton Prison in East Yorkshire for homophobic murders.
THE PROJECT
We are currently in a development period, researching LGBT+ experience within UK prisons in order to create a new theatre production. The company is collaborating with playwright James Baldwin who regularly works on creative projects in prisons.
This project aims to bring the inside out by exploring what it is to be out on the inside.
The development period is funded by Arts Council England, South Street Arts Centre in Reading and University of Reading and includes:
• Hosting interviews & discussions with prison staff
• Interviews with psychiatrists & academics who engage with the prison system
• Prison site visits; both working and decommissioned, male and female
• Interviews with LGBT+ support groups
• Creative devel
Regions
East
Cambridgeshire
Cambridge
Norfolk
Norwich
East Midlands
Derby UA
Leicester UA
Lincolnshire
Lincoln
London
Inner London
Camden
City of London
Hackney
Hammersmith and Fulham
Haringey
Islington
Kensington and Chelsea
Lambeth
Lewisham
Newham
Southwark
Tower Hamlets
Wandsworth
Westminster
Outer London
Ealing
Greenwich
South East
Kent
Swale
Thanet
Medway UA
Reading UA
Surrey
Guildford
Mole Valley
Runnymede
Spelthorne
Tandridge
Waverley
Woking
Area covered
National - England and Wales