I attended the second Dance and Museums conversation event today in Southampton, organised with Pavilion Dance South West (PDSW), with whom I'm now very pleased to be a Discovery Artist, the South East Museums Development Team and Sally Williams. Following on from the last conversation in Bristol in September last year, here are some further key points that I took away from today's discussion and sharing of practice.

People we would love to hear from: Anyone with a connection to caves, mines and underground spaces. We’re particularly interested to hear from miners and cavers. The information we collect through this research will inspire and inform the development of a new piece of dance theatre for family audiences, which will tour from 2017 onwards.

​Yesterday I attended the UCL Museums/Impropera Symposium 'Theatrically Re-imagining Collections' (#museumsreimagined). It was a great event, featuring some examples of best practice from Punchdrunk Enrichment/National Maritime Museum, British Museum/Royal Shakespeare Company, Do not adjust your stage/National History Museum, National Museum of Wales/Theatre na nOg and Battersea Arts Centre/Creative Museums, giving me lots of food for thought and raising some interesting questions.

Throughout 2016 we will be continuing to share 'The Imagination Museum' ​more broadly across the UK. Alongside these performances we will be undertaking new research, and making some decisions about what we would like to do next with our work in museums and heritage sites.

We are thrilled that we have been supported through a Paul Hamlyn Foundation 'Explore and Test' grant to develop the work we have been doing with schools, museums and heritage sites since 2013, contributing to the delivery of the primary school history curriculum using dance.