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An enduring partnership:
Trinity Laban and Horniman Museum and Gardens
Georgina Pope
Head of Learning,
Horniman Museum and Gardens
TRINITY LABAN
CONSERVATOIRE
OF MUSIC & DANCE
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Our vision To use our worldwide collections and the
Gardens to encourage a
wider appreciation of the World, its
peoples and their cultures, and its
environments
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Context
• South London, Lewisham
• Cross-borough collaborative
working
• Trinity Laban / conservatoire, higher
education
• Horniman Museum and Gardens,
eclectic collections, family orientated
• Both concerned with public
engagement with local communities
• Activity led by Learning and
Participation teams
• Shared values and aspirations
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Evolving partnership
• Since 2010 / small projects and
activities including choreographic
and composing projects, TL
students using galleries as a
stimulus
• Big Dance Picnic / July 2012 linked
to the Olympiad
• Curious Tea Party / July 2014
• Object in Focus / museum objects
hosted at Laban building
• Dance and Museums Symposium /
November 2014
• Africa Dance! / July 2015
• Festa Julina / July 2016
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Big Dance
July 2012
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Aims To pilot ways to use the Horniman’s early history and collections as the inspiration for
dance and music.
To create fun, active, accessible experiences for visitors that animate, on a large
scale, museum and garden spaces with art, sculpture, live dance and music.
To involve community audiences in the event programming, building skills and
experience.
To demonstrate and share a model for working in partnership across museum and
arts practice that combines high quality performance and high quality participation
opportunities.
•To trial different ways museums and arts organisations/artists could work together to
create artistic work and promote new ways of working with museum objects.
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Methods Inviting participatory artists to create work for schools, youth and community
groups inspired by a range of stimuli including objects from the museum collection
Commissioning professional artists to create new work based on the Edwardian
theme
Selecting professional artists via competitive call-out to stage existing work /
installations
Working with HM and TL youth panels to create and programme work for families
Using museum artefacts as a stimulus for new undergraduate dance works
Exhibiting artefacts in a dance venue setting
Trialling a small number of associated activities to support artists - ethnographer
talk, object handling workshop, working with a dramaturge.
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Scale and Impact:
Audience
• Over 7600 attended over 2 days
• 41% had not attended
Horniman events before
• 91% were positive about
coming back to explore the
Horniman again
• 72% expressed interest in trying
out dance and music more
generally
Launch
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Scale and Impact:
Participation
•200 performers from 14 Trinity
Laban school, student, youth and
community dance and music
groups in specially created work
•Lots of cross-arts participation
opportunities for our public
•Our youth panels working
together to programme for our
public
Forest Hill Boys School
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Scale and Impact:
Museum and artform
• 4 new professional art works
were commissioned for the event
with 2 of them being able to
perform at the Greenwich World
Cultural Festival as well
• 16 artists/collectives took part
following a call-out for
contributors which resulted in
eclectic mix of art forms
Average Height Ladies
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Scale and Impact:
Museum and artform
•Trinity Laban hosted 2 museum
objects at the Laban building as
part of the Horniman’s Object In
Focus loans scheme.
•Artists were inspired by using
museum objects as a starting
point for creation but wanted
more time and support to do this
in more meaningful ways.
COLAB, and the Haida pipe that
inspired their work
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Our Learning: What was happening
between dance and the
museum?
1. Museum as a SITE
SPECIFIC LOCATION
for artistic work
2. Museum
INSTITUTION AS A
STIMULUS for
artistic work.
3. Museum
ARTEFACTS AS
A STIMULUS for
artistic work located in
the Museum, its
grounds or elsewhere
including digitally.
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Building on this
experience
Africa Dance!
July 2015
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Building on this
experience,
coming soon…
Festa Julina
July 2016
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Learning
• Need for deeply rooted
partnerships
• Need for trust …. and risk
• Role of the artist, role of curator,
role of Learning teams
• Purpose, priorities and planning
• Audiences and visitors
• Practical considerations
• Wealth of approaches
Made by Katie Green
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TRINITY LABAN
CONSERVATOIRE
OF MUSIC & DANCE
Link to Curious Tea Party film
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AgbXtylYGus
&feature=youtu.be
Link to the Evaluation Report / Dance and
Museums Working Together Symposium
http://www.trinitylaban.ac.uk/schools-and-
community/projects/events-and-
platforms/symposium-dance-and-museums