SEED - dance for libraries

Meet Kid and Pinto, two Seedologists on the look-out for new specimens.

Together they follow the journey of a mysterious new seed that has appeared in the library, watching it transform as it travels through the four seasons.

A playful, interactive adventure for everyone, inspired by nature and the world around us, and devised collaboratively with groups of children aged 18 months to 4 years old and their families in Surrey and Hillingdon.

Don’t miss this opportunity to see the newest work by Made By Katie Green, with new writing by poet Anna Selby, design by Hannah Green and Edel Izquierdo and music by Dougie Evans.

Performances of SEED are aimed particularly at children aged up to 6 years old and their grown-ups, but all are welcome.

The SEED project was supported in 2024 by the National Lottery through Arts Council England, co-commissioned by Surrey Libraries and Active Surrey. Our pilot performances in June 2024 were supported by Surrey Libraries, Medway Libraries/Applause Touring and Northamptonshire Libraries/Library Plus. Our research for the project was also supported by The Hive in Guildford and Ruislip Manor Library (Hillingdon Libraries).

Our tour from 2025-26 was supported financially using public funding from the National Lottery through Arts Council England, Delight, and library services including Surrey Libraries, Telford and Wrekin Libraries, Northamptonshire Libraries, Hillingdon Libraries, Dorset Council Libraries, Applause Rural Touring, Barnet Libraries, Nottingham Inspire: Culture, Learning and Libraries, Trafford Libraries, Bexley Libraries, Creative Burntwood and Brent Libraries. 

Read our Social Story for the SEED performances here.

Read about what happened during our project pilot in 2024 here.

We are proudly Fantastic for Families and have signed up to the Family Arts Standards. SEED is an event with particular appeal to families, and can be enjoyed by people of all generations attending together.

If you have any comments or questions about the SEED project or any of our performance projects, please get in touch by emailing katie (at) madebykatiegreen.co.uk . We value your feedback.

If you are interested in working towards your own dance in libraries event, you can now also read some of our Top Tips for working with dance in this context, watch a short video commissioned by Creative Arts East bringing these Top Tips to life, and read our 2025-26 Impact Report here (also available as a 2 page version), and our 2023 Evaluation here.

PROJECT CREDITS

Director: Katie Green

Choreographed and performed by Megan Griffiths and Deepraj Singh

Also performed by Becky Horne, Rachel Laird and Chloe Mead

Design by Hannah Green and Edel Izquierdo

Writing by Anna Selby

Music by Dougie Evans

Costume design by Chloe Mead

Made By Katie Green Producer: Vicky Thornton (Clearcut)

Project Manager: Charlotte Mackie

Project Mentor: Hannah Lefeuvre

Access Consultation: Lily Norton

Sustainability Consultation: Danielle Pipe

Filming and photography by Dan Martin

Our Activity Sheet accompanying the performances is available here, designed by Jo Ogilvie with illustrations by Hannah Maiya-Mills.

Read more about our research, and about the sustainability work that we did with Danielle Pipe, which inspired the SEED project and our working Environmental Policy and Action Plan.

Photographer Dan Martin; Dancers Megan Griffiths and Deepraj Singh
Two dancers sit side by side on the floor of a children's library, huddled up underneath a huge blue parachute, which is domed over their heads to look like a cave or a den.
Two dancers throw colourful scarves up into the air and try to catch them. They smile as they reach their hands upwards to grab the scarves.
Two dancers throw colourful scarves forward and try to catch them. They are dancing in the children's section of a library.
Director Katie Green reads a story to a group of children and their grown-ups, researching ideas for the SEED performance
A group of children and their grown-ups dance under a large multi-coloured parachute, as part of the research for the SEED performance
Really lovely and engaging performance. My daughter is quite shy and cautious with new experiences, but she loved this. She engaged with each of the performers and her face was full of delight and anticipation throughout. She was itching to dance!
Parent feedback,
Excellent, loved every moment and didn’t want it to end.
Audience feedback,
A lovely way to get children engaged with the world around them.
Audience feedback,
My daughter enjoyed the performance and was enchanted.
Audience feedback,
My children were captivated the entire way through and thoroughly enjoyed it.
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