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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
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
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
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
Big Dance
July 2012
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.
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.
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
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
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
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
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.
Building on this
experience
Africa Dance!
July 2015
Building on this
experience,
coming soon…
Festa Julina
July 2016
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
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
