The response to our callout for help with our Dancing in Caves project research has been amazing, and we would love to share a few snippets of things we're beginning to find out along the way...

Made By Katie Green are offering an opportunity for a student/recent dance graduate to work with the company during our Paul Hamlyn Foundation supported ‘Explore and Test’ project researching ways of using dance within the primary school history curriculum.

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.