We Are Here!

Hubbub Theatre Company are back at Chapel Street Arts Centre on Monday 30 November with We Are Here!, an evening of dance, movement and clowning. It's a bit of a celebration of place, creative collaboration and dance development, and it grew out of the company's Dance Development Project.

The night brings together Hubbub Theatre Company and their Dance Collective, with performances from residency companies ClownDanceSeagrass Project and MSDC Dance. There's also a screening of Journeys, a dance film by Bethany Smith. It's a mixed bill, so you'll see a few different styles on one stage rather than a single piece.

To get where this is coming from: Hubbub is a Derby-based integrated theatre company, founded in 2012 and registered as a charity in 2015, operating out of 19 Chapel Street in the city's Cathedral Quarter. The Dance Development Project was an inclusive movement-based CPD programme led by Artistic Director Jen Sumner and Co-Director Bethany Smith, with artists Usha Mahenthiralingam and Kim Bormann involved. It was funded by an Arts Council England project grant and a Derby City Council small arts grant, and it did a few things behind the scenes: it placed three bursaries with under-represented dance artists, hosted two company residencies and ran professional development workshops focused on access, equity and wellbeing. We Are Here! is the public result of all that.

The evening closes with some reflections on the funding's impact, and there's a 'Feel Good Monday' in the café afterwards. It runs from 4:30pm to 6:00pm, with a running time of about an hour including any interval. Tickets are £10 standard, and the venue is Chapel Street Arts Centre, Chapel Street, Derby, DE1 3GU.