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Our Story

Here we track our development as a company and highlight a selection of our major projects and productions.

2006 - 2011

Founding Years & Early Work

  • Bounce founded around a kitchen table

  • Directed the Dramatic Edge showcases, the Richmond-upon-Thames initiative to celebrate drama in primary and secondary schools.

  • Established a network of after school drama clubs for Hounslow Extended Schools service

  • Commissioned by Hampton College to make Butterfly Stories at Shooting Star Hospice 

  • Received Arts Council Commission to run Be Creative Be Well, an intergenerational arts project on the Meadows Estate in Hounslow as part of Well London

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2012 - 2016

Community Projects & Productions

  • Tiny Tales from Around the World - Commissioned by Hounslow Council to make an original performance for the local Olympic
    celebrations with an intergenerational cast of 7-70 years old.

  • Inside my Imagination - A Paralympic commission to develop a new performance celebrating the language of the children at
    the hospice. Professionally performed in Hampton and Hounslow for children and their families.

  • ​Hounslow Youth Theatre - Established a community youth theatre from scratch for 60 children and young people performing at

  • Tara Arts, Rose Theatre, Soho Theatre and Saatchi Gallery.
    Urban Art Stories.

  • An exhibition, performance installation, gig and weekend of workshops curated by young people to celebrate Urban Art at the Saatchi Gallery funded by Heritage Lottery.

  • Fried Chicken - Made with Anstee Bridge, professionally performed at the Arthur Cotterell Theatre, and Richmond Safeguarding Conference. 

  • 60 Years of Fashion - Mixed media heritage project celebrating 60 years of fashion with Anstee Bridge, culminating in an
    exhibition at the Rose Theatre and Saatchi Gallery.

2017 - 2020

Performances & The Pandemic

  • Loneliness in the City - A commission from Kingston Council to explore loneliness with young people. Culminated in an exhibition at the Saatchi Gallery.

  • Emoji - Made with Anstee Bridge; professionally performed at Kingston Academy.

  • Our Health Your Hands - A mixed media project with Anstee Bridge celebrating 70 years of the NHS with The National Archives.

  • Scar - Made with Anstee Bridge. Professionally performed at the National Archives Rose Theatre, Turing House, Heatham House, Kent Council Safeguarding Conference, and Kingston Hospital Nursing & Midwifery Conference.

  • Things to do in a Blackout - Mixed media heritage project exploring crime in WW2 funded by Heritage Lottery.

  • Grace Dear Arts Project - A digital lockdown project exploring drama, film making, writing and podcasting commissioned by the Grace Dear Trust.

  • Story Club - A lockdown zine for children distributed digitally and printed to support Foodbanks, schools and voluntary sector groups.

  • Dear Children - An original tiny touring Santa show, professionally performed at 300 doorsteps for children and families around Wandsworth during the pandemic in aid of Earlsfield Foodbank.

2021 - Present

Post-Pandemic Work

  • Sugar & Spice - An intergenerational heritage project exploring how Tooting unfurled after WW2 and the contemporary parallels.

  • Loneliness - A professional performance, written in collaboration with Anstee Bridge students, exploring how loneliness impacted people during the pandemic.

  • Turn Up Join In - A social prescribing commission sustained by Bounce to become an intergenerational community art project at the Home Café.

  • Dear Children - Our tiny touring show returned to Earlsfield for a second time to support Earlsfield Foodbank to survive the cost of living crisis.

  • Speech Bubbles - Bounce becomes a proud partner in the national charity Speech Bubbles supporting 100 children who find communication in the classroom challenging. 

  • Threads of Tooting - An intergenerational heritage project exploring Tooting and its relationship with textiles. 

  • Threads - A brand new play about uniform and identity as part of Threads of Tooting. 

  • Earlsfield Youth Theatre - A space for children who want to celebrate the different ways we can communicate.

  • Into the Forest - an original youth theatre production which mashed up fairytales and turned a café into a forest. Made with children from Earlsfield Youth Theatre. 

  • Story Club- An interdisciplinary collaboration with a Speech and Language Therapist and an Emotional Health Consultant to explore how play and storytelling could support children under 5. 

  • Maisie's Dream - An 8 minute play made with a group of 10 year olds to reflect their climate change concerns. Performed as part of Wandsworth Arts Fringe - Primary Showcase.

Have a look at our current projects...

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