Christopher Gorry News Today

The landmark two-day event is set to challenge the Performance for Young Audiences (PYA) sector to reshape its traditional approach and become truly relevant and inclusive. Organised by The Spark Arts for Children, an arts organisation with over twenty years of experience in commissioning and producing performance experiences that are led by diversity and innovation,

A landmark piece of work, commissioned as part of Vital Spark by The Spark Arts for Children, is to be presented at the Sydney Opera House as part of an international tour. Aakash Odedra's Company's Little Murmur, a dance theatre performance for schools, originally premiered at Belgrave Library in the artistic director's hometown of Leicester

The artists for a major arts movement designed to address the chronic lack of diversity in the Performance for Young Audience sector have been revealed. Christopher Gorry, Artistic Director of The Spark: "We are excited to announce the diverse group of artists that make up this year's Vital Spark cohort." "The ambition of this year's