Co-production
Co-production models are what underpin our practice.
It is how we share power, embed lived experience, and ensure disabled people’s voices and experiences shape every project, performance, and decision. Together we build work that is collaborative, honest, and ambitious.
What is Co-Production, Co-Creation, & Co-Design?
These words often overlap, but for us they describe different parts of the same approach:
- Co-production: Sharing power and decision-making from the very beginning. Disabled People are equal partners throughout design and delivery.
- Co-creation: Making art together, where stories and performances are developed through collaboration.
- Co-design: Embedding lived experience into the systems, processes, and environments that make creativity possible.
Our Approach
Co-Production
For us, co-production models in perfomance mean equal relationships and shared decision-making. Disabled people share power and design through delivery, with lived-experience shaping what we do.
Co-Creation
Our creative work is made collectively. Co-creation makes space to imagine, invent, and surprise each other. We bring together multiple perspectives and experiences. Voices and ideas emerge through collaboration, and are platformed through performance.
Co-Design
Co-design ensures that rehearsal rooms, leadership structures, and audience journeys are inclusive from the start. Insights brought together within the Collective shape how spaces are run, how projects are structured, and how people engage with our work.
More about our practice
Co-production is the performance model we work from, but it doesn’t stand alone.
- Access shapes every space we create, every process we design, and every performance we share.
- Leadership drives how power is shared and how change happens.
