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Company of People | Intergenerational performance company
Company of People is a community company of all ages, based in Chapeltown and Harehills in Leeds, who create and perform high quality dance work.
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About Company of People | Intergenerational performance company
Company of People are an intergenerational community performance company, creating high quality dance work.
The group is rooted in the communities of Chapeltown and Harehills. The work of the company is shaped by its members and celebrates humanity and personal stories, histories and identities.
Company of People creative sessions
Yorkshire Dance warmly welcome you to join Company of People – a dance company for people of all ages and backgrounds based in Chapeltown & Harehills. Free, fun, sociable sessions for people interested in creating choreography and performing in a new dance work.
Sessions run 10am-4pm once a month on Sundays at Yorkshire Dance.
Want to join? Call on 0113 243 8765 or email tammytsang@yorkshiredance.com
Our previous work
In 2022 Company of People performed their first work, ‘In Your Shoes’ to a sold out audience at Leeds Playhouse as part of Yorkshire Dance’s Ageless Festival. In Your Shoes was co-created with TC Howard. The Company also performed at Yorkshire Dance’s 40th birthday in October 2022. Watch a short video about the group below.
In summer 2023 Company of People returned to the stage as part of a Double Bill at Encounters Dancing in Your Shoes Festival with their new work ‘Epic Everyday’ co-created with TC Howard. The Company toured Epic Everyday to Gender Bender festival in Italy and Theaterfestival Boulevard in the Netherlands in 2023.
In 2024 Company of People worked with Fevered Sleep to co-create a durational work, ‘How to change the World by Doing Nothing’ which was performed in Leeds Art Gallery as part of Ageless 2024.
In 2026 Company of People worked with TC Howard to create Wild Hope which was performed at Leeds Playhouse as part of Ageless 2026.
Company of People was established in 2021 thanks to funding from Paul Hamlyn Foundation and Creative Europe. How to Change the World by Doing Nothing was kindly supported by the Keith Howard Foundation in 2024. The project was supported by West Yorkshire Safer Communities in 2025.
The project is currently supported by the Keith Howard Foundation.
