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vital role in keeping villages alive and vibrant,
strengthening communities and improving
health and wellbeing. The Take Art rural
touring team have years of expertise to share
with promoters, venues and artists.
Rural Touring Audience
THE TAKE ART EFFECT
Take Art Rural Touring has been busy this
decade. Here are some of our achievements
in rural Somerset since 2010:
Rural Touring | Spilt Milk Dance
• We have put on 900 performances
• We have worked with 5,600 volunteers,
helping 180 communities put on
performances in their villages
• Our audiences numbers run to over
65,000 people, mainly from rural
communities
• We have paid artists and theatre
companies over £300,000 to bring and
make work in Somerset
Rural Touring | Fine Chissel © Paul Blakemore
The Rural Touring
Dance Initiative
The Rural Touring Dance Initiative (RTDI) was
launched in 2015 with the aim of bringing
exciting and innovative dance theatre and
dance performance to rural locations, using
the established rural touring schemes to help
make this happen successfully.
RTDI | Protein Dance
The project offers some of the most dynamic
and charismatic contemporary dance
companies in the UK.
Take Art is one of the partners within the
project, alongside leading dance institution
The Place; Birmingham-based independent
producing studio China Plate and the
National Rural Touring Forum (NRTF).
26 28 September International
Features- December International
2017 | Take Art
RTDI | Mr & Mrs Clark.
January - June 2020 | Take Art
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