About Jack & Friends

Clever, lighthearted fun!
Audience Member

Grab your party wear and join Jack and his friends for an interactive dance show with live music.

Jack loves musicals and pantomimes. He’s on a quest to make his dream dance sequence and you are invited to help make it happen. This uplifting and joyous celebration, ponders friendship and belonging, acceptance and independence. There will be plenty of opportunities to join in and be your best dancing self.

An invitation to over 5s and their families to dance, let loose and join in. This event is also suitable for older neurodiverse audiences.

This show is touring as part of the Rural Touring Dance Initiative, a national project which supports dance artists and rural promoters to make great dance performance events happen in rural spaces.

About SLiDE Dance

SLiDE is a community of disabled and non-disabled dancers and musicians based in Croydon. Developed over 10 years, our practice is person-centred and based on Laban theory and creative dance principles, underpinned by a set of values: creativity, self-determination & agency, inclusion & equity, play, quality, togetherness. SLiDE makes experimental dance pieces using improvised and contemporary movement. We present work in relaxed performances, with carefully considered ways for the audience to engage and interact with the work. We have been commissioned to show work across London and the Southeast including Liberty Festival (2023), Croydonites Theatre Festival (2023), Resolution (2022), Turner Contemporary, Southbank Centre and Fairfield Halls. Our dance films have been selected for film festivals curated by Blue Elephant Theatre, Cultured Mongrel and FilmOxford.

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Cast and Creatives

Performers: Jack Conie, Eleni Edipidi, Rob Howat, Takeshi Matsumoto
Creation: Gemma Coldicott, Jack Conie, Eleni Edipidi, Rob Howat, Takeshi Matsumoto

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