BASED IN SCOTLAND · MOVING BETWEEN COMMUNITIES
Later Life Dancers. Digital Adventures.
01 | WHAT WE DO
We co-create interactive dance adventures with later-life dancers — older dancers returning to dance, starting late, or dancing for life. Using everyday tech in simple, purposeful ways, we invite audiences to step inside the work online, outdoors and live.
Illustration by Emma Clifton-Brown
We’re not interested in limiting labels.
We work beyond the traditional make a show, tour a show model. Each project is built with people where they are — in community spaces, outdoors or online.
Partners don't just book a piece. They join a process that leaves skills, confidence and story behind.
We're interested in what becomes possible when people meet, move, and make something together.
STORY-LED
Every project starts with a question, a place, or a person — never a format.
TECH-LIGHT
Smartphones, QR codes, AR — tools people already carry, used with care.
HUMAN-FIRST
Participants are collaborators. The audience is part of the work, not a witness to it.
02 | SELECTED WORK
PROJECT 01
GOOD ENOUGH
In development · 2026
ONLINE CO-CREATION
TACTILE STORY-BOX
SMARTPHONE-LED LAYERS
We're looking for queer men across Scotland with something they've kept to themselves — not secrets exactly, but feelings about who they are that don't often get asked about.
Good Enough is a multisensory story-box experience blending tactile discovery, smartphone-led layers and dance. Supported by Immersive Arts funding. In partnership with Switchboard and arts organisations across Scotland.
PROJECT 02
THE RIDDLE
OUTDOOR JOURNEY
QR-LED INTERACTIONS
FILM + MOVEMENT PROMPTS
A playful outdoor digital treasure hunt that turns familiar places into a cinematic adventure. Film, movement and QR-led prompts as you move through the real world.
PROJECT 03
… AND THEY HAVE ESCAPED
INTERACTIVE PERFORMANCE
FILM + PROJECTION
SENSORS + RESPONSIVE SYSTEMS
An interactive dance performance and installation exploring what it means to live in a screen-bound world, shaped through participation, sensors and live technology.
TAKE YOUR FIRST STEP. JOIN US.
Let’s build a dance
adventure together.
CELEBRATING TWENTY YEARS OF PRACTICE
03 | OUR IMPACT
20+
Years building participatory dance work across the UK
15k
Audience members across community and venue sharings
40+
Funders, venues and community partners across the work
1
Creative Studio. Story-led. Built with everyone we meet
04 | PEOPLE WHO’VE MADE IT WITH US
Participant voices sit at the heart of NOCTURN.
Here are a few reflections from people who’ve made and experienced the work with us.
I'm 72 and I wasn't the oldest … suitably challenging, energising & rewarding.”
— MIKE, COMMUNITY DANCER
Dancing with wonderful people who are kind & generous … we laugh … & talk about our love of dance.”
— HELEN, COMMUNITY DANCER
Go beyond the limits of creativity, dance and expression … I made new friends & laughed … a lot!"
— CHRIS, COMMUNITY DANCER
I have always felt welcomed into the NOCTURN family … I can't recommend joining them enough."
— KELLY, COMMUNITY DANCER
NOCTURN dance classes are the highlight of my week … these classes turn it around!”
— RYAH, COMMUNITY DANCER
NOCTURN is my happy place … Even if you have never danced before I would highly recommend you join a class.”
— VALARIE, COMMUNITY DANCER
Couldn’t recommend more! … The classes are always varied, challenging and fun!”
— ANNIE, COMMUNITY DANCER
Incredibly daunting to sign up … so rewarding … hard questions in a caring environment."
— LIA, COMMUNITY DANCER
A safe environment to challenge yourself … give it a go, you will not be disappointed!"
— SAMANTHA, COMMUNITY DANCER
After years away due to illness … a magical & beautiful way to re-explore movement, communication & myself."
— IONA, COMMUNITY DANCER
I'm 72 and I wasn't the oldest … suitably challenging, energising & rewarding.”
— MIKE, COMMUNITY DANCER
Dancing with wonderful people who are kind & generous … we laugh … & talk about our love of dance.”
— HELEN, COMMUNITY DANCER
05 | STUDIO NOTES
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06 | GET IN TOUCH
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Want to start a project, dance with us, or simply say hello? We’d love to hear from you.
