Touring Company

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 workshop 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 from LCB’s annual 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, community centres 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.

  • Performance Dates:

    26th February - 2nd March (The Secret Garden)

    4th - 8th June (The Secret Garden)

    24th - 29th September (Ella's Big Chance)

    If you are interested in one of LCB’s touring companies visiting you, please contact us.

  • Tour Directors: Hulya Levent and Amy Daniels

    Ballet mistress: Alice Oakley Jones

  • February Tour

    TBC

    May Tour

    Blue Group

    TBC

    Yellow Group

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    September Tour

    TBC

Watch the Whitton Tour Film

In 2022 one of LCB’s four touring companies visited the Whitton Community Group in Wandsworth. Find out more about the impact this visit had on both the dancers and audience.

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!

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Mandeville School

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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 —