Cross the Sky Theatre Company is a company of adults with learning disabilities who create new and innovative theatre performances and artwork. Our aim is to give the members of our company an opportunity to share their voice, thoughts and feelings in a public, mainstream arena. We celebrate and raise awareness of the creative talents of people with learning disabilities.
We work in collaborative and co-productive ways and see our work as turning life stories into different art forms. We use improvisation to devise and discover – to devise original performance and to discover the talents of each individual in the process. We start working with people’s strengths using the medium that can most positively support them. This could be music, movement, song, film. The end product will incorporate different elements.
Using improvisational arts activities the group work alongside three professional artists drawing on issues and themes that are relevant to the members. We support the members to develop their creative skills through:
- music, singing and song writing
- movement and dance
- performance skills
- acting and performing
- film production and direction
- drawing and artwork
By joining our company, we hope to help people with learning disabilities:
- develop confidence and self-esteem
- stress relief and management
- unlock creative potential
- develop new skills
- self-belief
- co-operate and work as part of a team
- socialise
- raise their aspirations
- increase their personal motivation