Creative Engagement

Working with our highly experienced facilitators, we create a safe and supported environment that allows creative practitioners, local community groups and students to be bold and experimental, inviting them to push beyond the boundaries of their previous experience, develop new skills and a new understanding of the world around them.

Gecko’s Creative Engagement programme supports the company’s artistic output, inviting performers, teachers, professional artists, students of theatre or dance and the public to bravely and open heartedly delve into new worlds of connection, imagination and discovery through creativity and play. It provides an opportunity to explore the techniques and processes used to create and perform our work and a safe and supportive environment to express, heal, be vulnerable, nurture empathy, uncover truth and foster deep relationships.  

The strategic development of our Creative Engagement programme is supported by Creative Engagement Producer Paul Smethurst, who previously worked with Matthew Bourne’s New Adventures as their Resident Artist, as well as having a long career as a facilitator, mentor, choreographer, director and lecturer, and freelance Associate Director Helen Baggett, a highly experienced practitioner and founding member of Gecko and of Candoco Dance Company.