FRONTLINEdance presents: UPROOT!

Name: FRONTLINEdance presents: UPROOT!
Start: 2025-08-28T15:00:00+01:00
End: 2025-08-28T21:00:00+01:00
Location: The Spode Rose Garden

By FRONTLINEdance

Living Heritage Trail Performances

Date and time

Location

The Spode Rose Garden

Kingsway Stoke-on-Trent ST4 1JH United Kingdom

Good to know

Highlights

6 hours
In person

About this event

Join FRONTLINEdance’s vibrant cast of eighteen community and professional performers for ‘Uproot’. Inspired to capture, unearth and explore through movement Stoke-on-Trent’s Living Heritage Trail, this performance will make you connect and reimagine. Performed to a varied soundtrack, including Northern Soul Music, this sensitive work will make you think, smile and connect. Expect a journey of unearthing the past and forming a new shared identity, redefining a place where we call home.

Uproot is co-created with FRONTLINEdance's Artistic Director and the cast.

When: Thursday 28th August 2025

Join us at either 3pm or 7pm

Matinee: 3pm Perfomance - Starting at Spode Rose Gardens promenade to The Train Station and ending at Cauldon Park.

Evening: 7pm Performance - Starting at Cauldon Park promenade to The Train Station and ending at Spode Rose Gardens.

Access: Both performances will be BSL interpreted and be Audio Described - (limited to 10 headsets), relaxed seating and many of the team sign Makaton.

COST: FREE - Cash donations will be welcomed on the day.

IMPORTANT INFORMATION:

The performance involves promenading for just under a mile.

3pm, the route incorporates some uphill climbs. 7pm, the promenade is mostly downhill.

If this is something that would exclude you from attending, please get in touch. We can organise transport between Spode Gardens, The Train Station & Cauldon Park.

Please bring a bottle of water, wear appropriate footwear and comfortable clothing.

For more information, please contact: hello@frontlinedance.co.uk | 07356 072991

Uproot is co-created with FRONTLINEdance's Artistic Director and the cast. FRONTLINEdance is a National Portfolio Organisation of Arts Council England. This work is part of the Stoke-on-Trent 100: Centenary Heritage Festival Project, funded by The National Heritage Lottery, and is supported by the Potteries Museum & Art Gallery.

Organised by

FRONTLINEdance

FRONTLINEdance is an artist-led company based in Stoke-on-Trent, placing disabled people and those with long-term health conditions at the core of our organisation as leaders, dancers, artists, and audiences.

As makers we explore how we can create exciting, relevant and thought-provoking contemporary dance with d/DEAF, visually impaired, disabled, hospital patients, and neurodivergent audiences. We co-create across ages, backgrounds, and experiences, naturally integrating people together, reducing isolation, improving physical, mental and social health and well-being.

We continue to support emerging disabled artists and we offer consultation and support around inclusion, access and programming disabled artists both locally and nationally. Our tried and tested methodology means we specialise in delivering accessible and fully inclusive dance sessions.

FRONTLINEdance was co-founded by Rachael Lines and Michael King in 2000, and officially became a not-for-profit company Ltd by guarantee (no shareholders) in 2001. FRONTLINEdance is proud to be an Arts Council England National Portfolio Organisation (2023-2026), which means funding thanks to taxpayers plays a huge part in supporting our work.

WATCH US: https://youtu.be/sWayMs3SqW8 / https://vimeo.com/107827588

Free

Aug 28 · 15:00 GMT+1