If you are unable to use words how can you communicate your experiences to others? How can you have a fuller impact on decisions and choices that effect your life? Young people with physical/learning disabilities and or a sensory impairment rarely have choice and control about their day to day lives and long term life choices.

Night Flights is a stream of short term projects. Work has included making exhibitions and installations in galleries and arts centres. Video’s have been projected in cafes, in galleries, onto street hoardings and in people’s front rooms.

Many company members who have complex disabilities may not be able to see, read or hear for or by themselves. Physical disabilities combined with learning disabilities prevent them from expressing in words their experiences, interests and needs. Movement , the body and its senses provide the ways and means for expression and communication.

Within the regular movement and multi-sensory workshops and the short term projects that arise from them, a creative dialogue takes place between dancers, musicians and movers with and without disabilities.

“She likes soft cakes not biscuits, rice on hands, African spices, the sound of water pouring…”

“I’m so proud of myself. I’ve never done anything like this before”