What are Cultural Collaborations?
To ensure young people across Scotland can engage in dance, the Cultural Collaborations project partners with the National Galleries and Historic Environment Scotland and other national cultural organisations to increase access to dance, art and history.
These partnership projects aim to develop children's and young people’s knowledge of history and visual arts by using dance as a catalyst for expression and learning. They enable children from various communities and settings to access galleries and heritage sites in their local environment.
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This project delivered a high-quality, interdisciplinary, creative learning experience where children aged 3-5 years learned through and about dance and visual arts, enhancing their development and confidence. Working in partnership with Liz Conacher from the National Galleries and Granton Primary School, 25 nursery-aged children participated in creative dance sessions based on visual art produced by older students in the school. Their movement was developed into a dance film by artist Constant Viguer, and the film will hang in the National Gallery from May to April 2024. This project is designed to engage new audiences in dance and visual arts and challenge views of what dance film is with young children.
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Working in partnership with Historic Scotland and Highlife Highlands, Heritage Remixed aims to engage socially isolated young people aged 12-16 from the Highlands of Scotland in dance and to attract young people to Historic Environment Scotland sites in their localities through dance. Ten young people from one of the Highlife Highlands youth clubs worked with a YDance artist to create a dance film based on the history of Fort George in Nairn.
