Our aims are to:
- Make extraordinary, powerful work that marks, reflects and comments on significant events in working-class social history, politics, culture and people.
- Involve and engage people from diverse communities in the research, development and performance of touring shows, local projects & digital works, empowering them through a sense of ownership and achievement.
- Be a force for good in Barnsley and South Yorkshire through working collaboratively with local partners and involving local people in high quality creative and cultural activities with the potential to effect transformational change.
- Build lasting partnerships with venues that nurture and grow audiences in areas of England (and beyond) where arts engagement is low.
- Demystify dance for venue staff with little experience of the art form, increasing their confidence and skill in promoting and presenting it.
- Support the development of young, Northern producers and creatives from marginalised communities.