2025 sees us heading into research and development for our most ambitious project to date.

Combining dance and innovative design, Our Worlds Collide will be a large-scale work presented in non-traditional locations, to ensure it is accessible to as many people as possible. 

Based on Artistic Director Nikki Watson’s personal experience of caring for a loved one, Our Worlds Collide explores the complex family dynamics at play.

According to Carers UK, the majority of us will experience one or both perspectives of care in our lifetimes. Many carers have no prior experience of caring, receive no payment and may suddenly find themselves having to adapt to a disability diagnosis and the impact this can have on roles within the household. Nikki will be working closely with individuals who have experience of caring or being cared for and their perspectives will be integral to the project’s development. 

Nikki says: “With Our Worlds Collide, I want to open up the conversation about the unavoidable interdependence and tensions that families just like mine experience every day and the absurdities that this often involves. 

“Early set design ideas include thinking of ways to recreate the chaos behind the beauty, inspired by kaleidoscope imagery on a giant scale. We’re exploring the use of moving screens, lights and mirrors, so that the audience can see the performers from shifting, distorted perspectives – reflecting how our lives have been flipped upside down, and how everyone involved sees the situation so differently.”

Our Worlds Collide has been shortlisted for a UK Partner Award at Sadler’s Wells by Unlimited, which seeks to change and challenge the world by commissioning extraordinary work from disabled artists.

We look forward to sharing news of Our Worlds Collide as the project develops.