BOP Theatre & Dance Portfolio
BOP Theatre is a unique company that has its creative and artistic roots within the Jazz idiom, but crosses all contemporary and commercial trends and styles of theatre making and entertainment.
Since the company's creation in 1996, BOP have made a rare, yet essential contribution to the development and education of jazz dance and its inherent music. The true legacy of the Jazz art form is community and spirit. The company aims to continue this aural tradition to educate, preserve and entertain in a variety of settings to a variety of audiences; through creative, original and accessible artistic theatre productions alongside educational and community based creative programmes.
BOP Theatre is home to a creative and continuing nucleus of professional jazz creators, dancers, musicians, educators and technicians whose philosophies are to pass on the traditions of creative music, dance and theatre making. This has been evident in the company's practice of developing and nurturing young dancers, musicians and performers from all cultural and social backgrounds prevalent of our diverse society.
BOP Theatre has and continues to create and produces an ever-growing repertoire of quality theatre, music and dance productions for presentation in medium to large-scale venues nationally and internationally.
| Jazz Theatre Productions: | Touches of Miles (UK & Europe) Dizzy Heights (UK & Europe) Trumpet Trilogy (UK & Europe) The Journey (UK & Europe) Sacred Space (UK & Europe) |
| Musical Theatre Productions: | Duke's Place, Cochrane Theatre & Lilian Baylis , Lichfield Theatre White Folks – A Musical Fable, Pleasance Theatre, Nottingham Playhouse and Tricycle Theatre. Inner City Jam, Cockpit Theatre |
| Concert Theatre Productions: | White Folks – The Concert, The Cochrane Theatre Motown Moves Concert, UK Performances The 'Beatle-Mania' Show, UK Performances The 70's Song & Dance Review Show, UK Performances |
BOP has performed at the following venues:
The Purcell Room - South Bank • The Royal Festival Hall - South Bank • The Brixton Academy - London • The Place Theatre - London • The Cochrane Theatre - London • WAC Interchange Theatre - London • The Secombe Theatre - Surrey • The Ashcroft Theatre - Croydon • The Point Theatre - Eastleigh, Southampton • Swindon Dance - Swindon • The Hextable Arts Festival - Kent • The Woking Dance Umbrella - Woking • Leap into Dance Festival - Richmond • The Playhouse Theatre - Harlow • The Wilde Theatre - Bracknell • The Gate House Theatre - London • The Lichfield Theatre - Birmingham • The Opera House Theatre & The North Pier Theatre - Blackpool • Latvia International Festival - Latvia • Malmo Dance Theatre - Sweden• Kieler Theatre - Germany • Lilian Baylis Theatre, Sadler's Wells.