Our Partners
We all need a sounding board to help us develop our ideas. At Hull Dance, we benefit from Flourish Members, Creative Enablers, outstanding partners and renowned artists Lea Anderson and Liv Lorent whose insights and collaboration help us shape and improve our work
Collaborative Partnerships
Hull Dance works in partnership with organisations such as Hull City Council and local venues like theatres and community groups. These collaborations help bring dance into different contexts, spaces, and audiences across the city — from traditional venues to street festivals and youth events.
Strategic partners
Our strategic partners are special organisations that we work with over a long period of time to develop positive changes to dance, and who can have access to dance, within the City.
Hull Dance began as an initiative with the Arts Development Team of Hull City Council. As an independent organisation we work closely with them developing a cohesive dance ecology which supports the strategic cultural and heritage plan through maximising a citywide partnership approach to dance across the city
Hull Dance is working in partnership with TIN Arts to develop 'Move Together' - an inclusive and accessible youth dance framework working with a range of partners from across Hull leading to more opportunities for young people to participate in high quality dance in education and community settings.
Hull Dance and HICA are embedding creativity, movement and dance across the service of care and support solutions offered by HICA for older people and people with a learning disability to enhance the wellbeing of employees and clients. The Hull Dance Flourish Centre and HICA Wellbeing Hub is the next step in this venture and shares our learning across the sector
Artistic Advisors
Lea Anderson
Lea Anderson is a founder member and Artistic Director of The Cholmondeleys and Featherstonehaughs, dance companies. In 2002 Lea was awarded an MBE for her services to dance. Lea’s films Flesh and Blood and Cross Channel have been designated as set texts for GCSE and A’ level Dance and Performance Studies in the UK. Lea is an artist in residence at the Southbank Centre London and was appointed Regents Professor at the University of California in Los Angeles in 2014. Her latest works include a performed exhibition of choreography and costume at The V&A museum in London last year, and in March 2017 a commission by the British Council in Lima, Peru to create a site-specific work on an ancient archeological site for the FAEL festival. A full-length theatre piece - Ladies and Gentlemen toured the UK in autumn 2017.
Liv Lorent
Lea Anderson is a founder member and Artistic Director of The Cholmondeleys and Featherstonehaughs, dance companies. In 2002 Lea was awarded an MBE for her services to dance. Lea’s films Flesh and Blood and Cross Channel have been designated as set texts for GCSE and A’ level Dance and Performance Studies in the UK. Lea is an artist in residence at the Southbank Centre London and was appointed Regents Professor at the University of California in Los Angeles in 2014. Her latest works include a performed exhibition of choreography and costume at The V&A museum in London last year, and in March 2017 a commission by the British Council in Lima, Peru to create a site-specific work on an ancient archeological site for the FAEL festival. A full-length theatre piece - Ladies and Gentlemen toured the UK in autumn 2017.