we cultivate. we create. we celebrate.
We believe the arts can transform our understanding of ourselves, our mind, body and soul and the issues of our time.
Our Vision in Motion
We believe that engaging in the arts provides a catalyst for change, learning new skills and creating a unique response to the issues of our time.
Through producer training, participatory projects, and collaborative residencies, we use movement to tell untold stories, connect diverse communities, and address urgent environmental and social issues. Every project is an invitation: to learn, to create, and to be part of something bigger.
Both producers worked on the Same Difference Festival in Wolverhampton produced by Wolverhampton CEP in West Park. This year we introduced working with Screen Dance for the first time. Our producers worked with Sima Gonsai, curator for Screen Dance event for Flatpack Festival and with Sarah Hamilton Baker using Touch Screen interactive ways to engage with young people, some with additional needs and families in the Flatpack Festival.
False Accounts performers produced by Red Lens
Adult Dancers perform at Birmingham Weekender Festival 2025
Producers work at Same Difference Festival produced by Wolverhampton CEP 2023 and 2025
What We Do
Why It Matters
We believe movement ignites change. By nurturing artists and producers who can co-create participatory journeys, we connect with communities. We use stories and visual storytelling, inspired by diverse cultural roots to engage with environmental and social transformation.
Meet the team
We are artists who believe in the power of dance to connect with spirit and soul.
This shared passion for dance, from Indian classical and Caribbean styles to contemporary forms and carnival arts, is at the heart of our new artistic policy. Our new Producing Emerging Producers (PEP) programme will embody this vision
Virginia Wollaston
Virginia Wollaston
Virginia originally studied Fine Art at the University of East Anglia before training as a contemporary dancer in the London Contemporary Dance school. She spent three years studying in the Cunningham Studios, Alwin Nikolais and Limon studios as well as performing with pick up companies in New York. She returned to London, teaching dance in schools before joining the education departments of professional dance companies including Second Stride, Extemporary Dance Theatre, Shobana Jeyasingh Dance Company, Daksha Sheth Dance Company and Birmingham Royal Ballet. Between 2002 – 2016, Virginia worked within the funding systems of Arts Council West Midlands (as Dance Officer) and Birmingham City Council (as Cultural Officer), with periods of freelance producing. She successfully embedded the practice of co-creation with communities and artists across Birmingham, using visual, performative arts and craft, within the Local Arts Fora, which is now managed by No 11 Arts. She has worked as an independent producer with Moving Souls Dance since 2017.
Debbie Green
Debbie Green
Debbie, movement artist and dancer, is co- author of Actor Movement; Expression of the Physical Being, Bloomsbury 2015. She trained as a classical ballet dancer at The Rambert School. She danced and choreographed professionally prior to working as Senior Lecturer of movement at Royal Central School of Speech & Drama for thirty years. Her main teaching was on the renowned BA Acting course, additionally on “Movement: Directing and Teaching MA/MFA” and on “Voice Studies: Teaching and Coaching MA/MFA”. She has been collaborative artist with photographer Clare Park since the Eighties. Their work has been published in both photographic and performance journals as well as in exhibition. They have produced two books of imagery and text Breaking Form: Re-Formed and A Square Foot of Sky in which she also appears as 'The Dancer'. Currently working with Music & Being on an album, exhibition and book to be produced in 2026.
Linda Saunders
Linda Saunders
Linda’s early career was a librarian working with books and children. In this role, she was one of the initiators of the successful Bookstart scheme providing books for babies and chaired the national Carnegie and Kate Greenaway Awards in 1996. Linda has had leadership roles in libraries, cultural organisations and dance organisations going on to run The Public in West Bromwich and work as Strategic Director at DanceXchange. She now works as a freelance arts management consultant working with National Portfolio holders ACE Dance and Music, Jaivant Patel Company and Sonia Sabri Company as well as small dance companies, providing pragmatic and practical advice on all aspects of arts management.
Working with Artists & Professional Companies
We’re proud to partner with arts organisations such as ACE dance and music, Red Lens, Wolverhampton CEP, Sampad and Sima Gonsai working with Flatpack Festival for the 2025 PEP programme.
Over 2026 – 7 we will be building a new Artful Migration Midlands programme to co-create a project along the River Avon and Severn using arts and citizen science to engage with transforming the health of these rivers.
