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Theatre & Dance

Stopgap Dance Company Presents

Lived Fiction

Sat 25 Apr 2026

Djanogly Theatre

Concession prices available.

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Experience dance from multiple perspectives in an evening of masterful performances by Disabled, neurodivergent and non-disabled creatives.

Feel dance differently. Lived Fiction is the culmination of Stopgap’s twenty-year journey, rooted in compassion for the human condition.

Stopgap’s sensual choreography takes on new meaning through evocative audio description, exquisite projection art and creative captioning.

The performance features Audio Description, Creative Captioning and is a Relaxed Performance.  There will be a touch tour at 5pm.

Following this performance there will be a Q&A, which will be BSL interpreted by Rebekah Cupit.

Stopgap have been the exemplar of diversity and inclusion on stage for two decades, but a global leader of inclusive dance has to do more than showcase Disabled talent. It is time for us to level up and make dance accessible to the widest possible range of audiences.

We want the performers and the audience to gain a shared-experience of an inclusive world and revel in the joy of different people cohabiting the theatre space.

Lived Fiction aims to do this through intertwining audio description, captioning, projection art, and relaxed environment with world-class choreography.

Click here to find out more about Creative Access involved in Lived Fiction.

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More from Lived Fiction...

A female caucasian dancer with Down's Syndrome is standing with firm strong gaze cast upwards. Her left hand is raised above her head as if answering to a calling. Her left foot is raised on her toes, her left softly bent at the knee. She is wearing dark brown trousers with zips and fasteners stitched on all over like in a punk aesthetic. She is wearing a crumpled, peach coloured blouse. Beneath her raised arm alongside her torso, is the head of caucasian male dancer. He is bent forwards at the hip, his head directly under her armpit looking up at her raised hand. His left arm is raised, as if left behind him as he bent forward. He is almost completely silhouetted. There is a key dangling on his vaguely visible braces. Image by Chris Parkes.
An action shot of a dance scene. A male wheelchair dancer with brown skin, is lying sideways on a light coloured floor. His wheelchair is still strapped on his waist, lying on the floor with him. His arms are raised off the floor, and he is looking intently at his left hand. He is in control. Other dancers are in the background in blurry motion shots, all on the floor making shapes that are reflective of the wheelchair dancer's pose but all different in their own ways. A female wheelchair dancer with dark skin and black hair is blurry but more visible to the right of the image. She is facing away from the camera, tipping backwards, her head going over the back rest of her chair. The image has a golden colour with atmospheric haze and black backdrop. The dancers are all in stylised tight costumes that has a golden burnished colour. Photography by Chris Parkes
A golden, burnished photo of dancers Mo and Christian during a duet. Mo, a short-statured Disabled Black woman, kneels up and proudly holds her right arm across her chest to her heart, facing front she gazes out and across to the left of the image, her chin raised. Hidden slightly behind her, Christian, a tall non-disabled white man also kneels but faces his body to the right, but he curls himself downwards, his face gazing the floor. The image is hazy and back lit, having a black and golden background. Photography by Chris Parkes

Co-presented with Fabric

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...something quite beautiful. And quietly revolutionary."

The Guardian

There are certain works that permanently alter one’s perception of the world; Lived Fiction is one such creation."

A Young(ish) Perspective

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