​On the 27th November 2014 I attended Trinity Laban/the Horniman Museum's Symposium entitled: 'Dance and museums working together'. I have jotted down some of the notes I made during the day.

From September-November 2014, I collaborated with the supplementary schools team at the British Museum as part of the Exploring Objects and Sharing Cultures Project, working with 20 dancers from the EC Lighthouse Lithuanian Supplementary School to create a piece responding to artefacts in the museum's Roman galleries.

I have been working specifically with dance in museums and heritage sites for nearly two years now, and one thing I can certainly say about working in this environment is that there is always more to discover: museums are such a rich source for creative dance activity. However, what I have learnt during those two years, and throughout my work as a professional dance artist and choreographer more generally, is that dance has the capacity, if introduced in an appropriate way, to engage all individuals, regardless of ability or previous experience.

I have learnt some fantastic introductory/ice-breaker ideas for working with museum objects from the British Museum staff that I will be able to feed into my delivery of dance work in museums in the future, and this just goes to show how much can be gained from artists working collaboratively with museum experts, and engaging young people in that exchange of skills and ideas.

The following ideas are based primarily on the ‘Exploring Objects and Sharing Cultures project’ that I delivered with the British Museum in response to the Roman galleries (particularly Room 70) and particular artefacts associated with Cleopatra, Julius Caesar and Mark Anthony, but there are of course many more possibilities.