Oh, How We Dance:
London Museum Docklands
We partnered with London Museum Docklands and the Curating Visibility initiative
And delivered a complete film, animation, and digital installation for Oh, How We Dance. The project delivered alongside Screen South’s Accentuate Programme, provides vital work opportunities for deaf, disabled, and neurodivergent curators to challenge traditional narratives and reshape museum spaces.
Working closely with Curating Visibility Fellow Noah Silver, we transformed historical archives, oral histories, and contemporary testimonies into a cohesive, living, breathing cinema installation.
Inclusive Design: Built-In Accessibility
Too often in the film industry, accessibility features like audio description, British Sign Language interpretation, and captioning are treated as post-production add-ons, added to a finished project in the final hours before release. For this installation, our approach was entirely different.
As well as the incredible team mentioned, we also worked alongside creative partner Byron Vincent, Lily Norton on audio description, and Adam McCormick and Karen Belcher on BSL interpretation, we integrated these elements from the very inception of the project.
By weaving these translation layers into the core creative workflow, the access features do not distract from the art, they become part of the aesthetic, creating a multi-sensory landscape that welcomes every single visitor with equal warmth.
Shared Histories: The Fabric of the Film
The heart of the film lies in its voices, spanning generations of disabled Londoners who have carved out their own spaces to dance, to party, and to live. The narrative arcs through three distinct eras, which we brought to life by blending archival fragments, community media, and creative motion design.
The 1930s and Post-War Resilience: Exploring ballroom dance, intimacy, and the sensory joy of movement through the wartime memories of blind and low-vision dancers.
The 1980s and 1990s Counterculture: Following nightclub legend Mik Scarlet as a wheelchair user navigating London’s vibrant nightlife, paired with the striking paintings of artist Mentor Chico.
The Future Nightclub: A collaborative segment where ten local disabled co-producers used poetry, art, and film to collectively imagine an ultimate, fully accessible dream nightclub built with absolutely no barriers.
