Fabric

Who we are

Fabric is a strategic dance development organisation based in the Midlands with sites in Birmingham and Nottingham.

Created in 2022 by merging Dance4 in Nottingham and DanceXchange in Birmingham, Fabric was nearly five years in the making: five years of thinking, talking, planning and hard work against a constantly changing external environment, and social and economic backdrop. 

Since forming, we have been designing Fabric’s work, harnessing skills, knowledge and expertise to create expansive programmes that benefit from the scale, scope and success of the organisation and our collective expertise, building on a combined 60 years of experience and success.

We seek to develop dance as an artform, curious about it now and in the future, working with artists, partners, collaborators and stakeholders that reflect and celebrate contemporary Britain and its local to global communities and connections.

We are dedicated to demonstrating and embedding the social value of dance and movement through strategic interventions that improve the quality of practice in research, creation, performance and participation.

The Midlands, our home cities and the communities we serve and collaborate with are constantly changing – they bring a diversity of practices and forms together to make this an extraordinary place for dance. 

Our mission will create the conditions for dance to flourish by growing the dance economy for the health, wellbeing, development and connection of communities, cultures and the individual.

Our culture and values

Our approach is informed by Care, Openness, and Rigour through the curatorial values of:

Curiosity – an openness to taking risks, being uncertain, and asking difficult questions.

Disruption – embracing risk-taking, action and investment, that might disrupt old or accepted ways of working.

Joy – the lens through which everything should be seen and or/approached.