To enrich the lives of those who are not able to afford or physically access live theatre, LCB brings the theatre production – the choreography, music, costumes and dancers – into the community.
Four small touring companies bring specially tailored 30-minute performances to residential care homes, hospices, day centres and Special Educational Needs schools. Following each performance, LCB’s dancers mix with audience members either through a “meet and greet” at care homes or an interactive workshops at SEN schools, where young audience members are given the chance to feel and try on costumes.
Please contact LCB if you would like a LCB Touring Company to perform in your school, care home or hospice.
Children dancing in the touring companies are chosen either from LCB’s competitive auditions. This enables an additional 48 children each year to benefit from LCB’s professional performance experience and training. The touring companies rehearse together for 5 days, typically spread over 4 weekends. They perform over a week in care homes and special educational needs schools across Greater London. It is an exceptional experience, and we often find dancers grow as a person as much as they grow as a performer through the insight they gain taking ballet out into the community, performing for those who cannot access the theatre.
22 - 26 February
21 - 25 June
20- 24 September
21 - 25 February
8 - 12 June
25- 29 September
Tour Director
Hulya Levent
Tour Director Maternity Cover
Jenna Lee
Tour Ballet Mistresses
Amy Daniels
Sarah Du Feu
Alice Oakley
February Company 2023
Abriana Redwood-Sawyerr
Eliana Stewart
Elodie Thomas
Harriet Houlton
Holly Guiney
Isabella Paterson
Joseph O Connor
Lily Bryant
Phoebe Milford
Phoebe Watts
Thomas Carmalt
June Company 2023
Blue Group
Abigail Tremayne
Ashton Myers
Esme Gupta-Wright
Eva Surfleet
Hana Ezaki
Imogen Williams
Juliette Watson
Pearl Wallinger
Pippa Gough
Robin Burns
Sacha Zelouf
Yellow Group
Ailsa Levy
Ananda Bridges-Riu
Dorothy Wheeler
Elliot Frost
Emily Keatinge
Emily Schwendtner
Gloria Aronova
Gloria Mindru
Julia Fromme
Lyla Chandwani
Marcus Merrett
September Company 2023
Aidan Scanlon
Alayna Fontaine
April Bruggemeyer
Darcey Georgeson
Fred Osborn
Holly Sellers
Kiki Lester
Lily Turner
Maisie Lucas
Margot Boyd
Marlowe Gilgallon
Nelly Da Costa
“This is the only time our pupils would be able to meet ‘real ballet dancers’ and get to touch and feel such beautiful costumes…There were a number of children who seemed to engage with the emotion of the performance, particularly when ‘dramatic, scary’ music came on. A few were dancing in their seats!”
Mandeville School