Created by performers Stephen Noonan, Owen Love, Samuel Matthewman and Colin Offord, with direction by Sally Chance, Of Babies and Men explores what happens in a playful performance space.

This new work by Sally Chance Dance for babies aged 4-18 months is in a studio-based, collaborative devising phase from April 2024 until mid 2025.

A combination of care and play is a fundamental aspect of SCD’s philosophy of considered creation of encounters between artists and babies.

As Fletcher-Watson notes “playing is key to the entire genre of Theatre for Early Years” (2016). 

Of Babies and Men will draw on types of play, from competitive to imaginative ways of playing, making them visible to the babies through performance imagery, and with an invitation for them to take part in, as co-players.

Image credits: Sam Oster