Register your interest by
Thursday 26 June 2025 at 11 PM
Behind the Scene is an ongoing series from Bradford Producing Hub that allows Bradford's performance makers to observe rehearsals and R&D processes.
Next in our Behind the Scene series is a 3-day observation placement with Dance United Yorkshire during rehearsals and production development of Memories of the Future.
Placement dates:
Wednesday 2 – Friday 4 July 2025 (3 days)
Placement times:
Approx. 10.30 AM – 5.00 PM
Placement location:
Alhambra Theatre, Bradford
Memories of the Future is a new dance production from Dance United Yorkshire in collaboration with Akram Khan Company and young people from diverse and often marginalised backgrounds. It explores memory, identity, and imagined futures, blending professional choreography with lived experience.
This is a unique opportunity to observe a high-quality, participatory project involving both professional artists and young people from sanctuary-seeking and underrepresented communities. Observers will witness a collaborative process rooted in care, creativity, and transformation.
Over the 3-day placement, we will:
- Pay you a bursary of £75 per day for your development time, as well as your travel costs
- Contribute towards any other access costs you might have, such as childcare, caring, interpretation etc.
The successful participants will join Dance United Yorkshire at the Alhambra Theatre on the following dates:
- Wednesday 2 July 2025
- Thursday 3 July 2025
- Friday 4 July 2025
Sessions are from roughly 10.30 AM until 5.00 PM each day.
Candidates must meet the following eligibility criteria:
- Aged 18 years and over
- Actively making live performance relevant to the placement, or returning to making work after a break
and - Live in or make work in the Bradford district
or - Have a strong and demonstrable connection to the District and are likely to make work here that will benefit local creatives
The Alhambra Theatre is an accessible venue
To make the registration simple and the selection process fair, we allocate places through a ballot.
How the ballot process works:
- You enter the ballot via a simple registration form linked belowÂ
- After the deadline, we enter all eligible registrations into a ballot
- We select a participant through a random selection process
- We inform all applicants of the outcome on Friday 27 June 2025
We will pay everyone a bursary of £75 per day to participate in this placement, a total of £225 for the 3 days.
We will also reimburse any travel costs, so please keep your receipts. For placements outside of Bradford, we can pre-book trains in advance on your behalf.
If you require financial support towards access costs, we will send you a form detailing these requirements with your offer of a place. Access costs might include childcare or other caring costs, interpretation costs such as BSL or other language support, access worker costs, or other access costs.
If you have an access rider, you’re welcome to send this to us when you apply – you can email this to hello@bdproducinghub.co.uk.Â
If you need support with completing the form, or you need to submit your expression of interest another way, please drop us an email at hello@bdproducinghub.co.uk
About Dance United Yorkshire
Dance United Yorkshire (DUY) is a Bradford-based charity dedicated to transforming lives through contemporary dance. Since 2011, they’ve led in arts and social inclusion, connecting marginalised communities with professional dance.
DUY aim to create outstanding choreography that leaves a lasting, positive impact on those living in difficult circumstances. They believe everyone, including those on the margins of society, should have access to high-quality contemporary dance.
DUY run projects for those who are often excluded—victims of domestic abuse, those with mental health issues, people in impoverished areas, and individuals at risk of offending or in custodial settings. Whether collaborating with leading dance companies worldwide or developing their own artists, maintaining choreographic excellence is central to their mission.
