About Gary Clarke Company

Our mission is to:
Create exceptional dance theatre projects which connect, strengthen and inspire communities, participants, audiences and artists. We work with professional artists and working class and marginalised people, forging enduring relationships to ensure authenticity in the telling of our and their stories. Our creative practice redefines the ways in which people can be part of creative processes and the making and performance of excellent shows and in doing so, we bring fresh voices, stories and perspectives to arts and culture. We work with care and respect for our family of artists, creative workers, collaborators, community participants and audiences.

Co-founded in 2015 by Artistic Director, Gary Clarke and Executive Producer, Annabel Dunbar,
Gary Clarke Company is a pioneering, award-winning dance theatre company based in South Yorkshire. Renowned for high impact, high quality and high legacy work, the company tours extensively on the mid-scale across the UK and continues to nurture new partners and touring networks at home and abroad.

Between 2016 and 2023 Gary Clarke Company co-created and toured extensively two full length dance theatre works: Coal (Winner of a UK Theatre Award for achievement in dance and a Critics Circle National Dance Award for best independent company) and Wasteland presenting 100 shows (54 x Coal and 46 x Wasteland) across 51 venues, primarily in England, as well as touring into Scotland, Northern Ireland, Wales and Germany.