Mercurial Dance

Sign Spinning and XR Dance experiences for outdoor festivals.

Mercurial Dance is founded and led by Artistic Director Oliver Scott. We create distinctive performance and produce in-depth participatory experiences in the heart of communities which reaches thousands of people every year. Combining dance with a range of other artforms, the organisations’ work is articulated through three strands: large scale site-specific works, education and small scale touring pieces. 

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Sign Spinning,  a festival creative Wayfinding offer. Our dancers will engage and direct audiences around a festival geography as a walk about or at key sights with sign spinning, using signs holding your festival identity and messaging. Research has shown Sign Spinning at events offers a 90%
message retention post event compared to traditional event marketing, and a 5 fold increase in footfall of new audiences into venues. Mercurial Dance hold sole licence, as the only company in the UK with rights to offer Sign Spinning, and are part of a global community of spinners.

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Illuminated Sign Spinning, our festival creative Wayfinding offer with a bespoke illuminated sign for winter events.

Spinprov (Working Title) is an arts activism piece that seeks to bring a change to the high and rising levels of mental health conditions in young people: creating work that seeks to re-address the ways young people regain positive mental health by connecting them to the power of dance, movement and embodiment. 

It is a live outdoor arts performance that integrates choreography and sign spinning with activist messaging: a poetry of single phrases that counterpoints and underpins the piece, making visible inner thoughts of our characters and their relationships. This will be as a c.15 min sited performance and walkabout performance as a lead in/lead out. The piece highlights, how and what we communicate…  [and omit]   …deeply affect ourselves, and our relationships within the places we live in.