BLINK Dance Theatre announced as one of National Youth Theatre's new Associate Companies

We are delighted to announce that we have been appointed as one of the National Youth Theatre’s new Associate Companies! We will be collaborating with NYT over the next two years to champion our work and create more opportunities for their national network of 14,000 young creative people.

The new companies will collaborate with NYT to reach communities of young people across the UK lacking access to the arts and include specialists whose work focuses on engaging young refugees and asylum seekers, young disabled and neurodiverse people and young games. The new Associate Companies are: BLINK Dance Theatre, Compass Collective, Dorestborn & OffPiste, Doorstep Arts, Itch + Scratch, THE LAB, Megaverse, OPIA Collective, Piece of Cake Theatre Company and Project Phakama. They join NYT’s existing Associate Company The PappyShow.

National Youth Theatre’s commitment to inclusive practice aligns deeply with our ethos and we are excited for this new partnership and mutual learning and skills sharing that it will foster. We are looking forward to being part of a thriving community of people dedicated to tackling elitism and ableism in the arts. Our work with NYT will focus on providing leadership opportunities and employment for learning disabled young artists to enrich the theatre sector.