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The Acosta Dance Foundation’s Community-Based Performance Group brings together people of all ages, backgrounds, and levels of experience to explore the transformative potential of movement. Developed in collaboration with the Tanztheater Performance Group, this inclusive programme offers workshops, open rehearsals, and a final performance that celebrate creativity, diversity, and human connection.
Drawing on the principles of Tanztheater, participants engage with a rich range of movement practices that combine dance, theatre, speech, music, and everyday gesture. Rather than focusing solely on technique or conventional narrative forms, the programme encourages participants to draw upon personal experience, imagination, and expressive movement to create thoughtful and engaging performances that explore emotions, relationships, memory, and contemporary social themes.
Through performances such as Play in Motion, Paths Taken, House of Incertitude, and other immersive projects, participants in the programme has transformed venues including the Acosta Dance Centre, Woolwich Works, Punchdrunk, and Artillery Square into dynamic spaces for artistic exploration. Whether through intensive projects or ongoing weekly workshops, participants collaborate across generations, sharing stories, cultures, and perspectives through movement and performance.
Performances have attracted audiences of between 50 and 130 people, creating meaningful opportunities for community engagement, artistic exchange, and cultural participation. Together, these activities have fostered a strong sense of belonging and connection, bringing individuals and communities together through shared creative experiences and reflecting the Foundation’s commitment to making dance accessible, inspiring, and empowering for all.
Adrian Look works primarily through a Tanztheater (dance theatre) approach, creating performance groups that explore identity, diversity, and creativity. His practice is inspired by Pina Bausch’s Questioning & Answering method and is open to participants of all levels and backgrounds.
Born in Oberhausen, Germany, Adrian holds an MA in Dance Theatre from Folkwang University. He has worked internationally with companies and artists, including Tanztheater Bielefeld, Guilherme Botelho / Alias Company, Vaguement derrière (Simone Sandroni), Deja donné, The Tempting Innocence, and Rainer Behr on Herbstzeitlose (Pina Bausch).
Based in London since 2014, Adrian has been teaching and producing extensively across the UK. He regularly leads classes and workshops at The Place, Trinity Laban, Chisenhale Dance, Siobhan Davies, and Greenwich Dance. He is a lecturer at Morley College and The Place, and a visiting lecturer at the University of Bedfordshire, the University of East Anglia, Trinity Laban, and Rambert School.