Wednesday 20th May is World Bee Day — a celebration of our hardworking but increasingly endangered pollinator friends.
As part of Creative Crawley’s summer programme — and a nationwide tour — children and staff at five local schools will be visited by BUG: an outdoor performance, where dancers dressed as giant insects present funny, funky short dances inspired by insect movement, from the honeybee’s waggle dance to the ant’s tremble dance.
Commissioned by Creative Crawley as part of the Stomping Ground Commissioning Partnership, BUG was created by iconic British choreographer Lea Anderson MBE and Lewis Norman, featuring live rhythmic electronic music and insect soundscapes by musician Steve Blake.
This year’s tour will visit:
from 6–10 July.
BUG will be presented as a double bill alongside Prisma — a weird and wonderful dance show inspired by children’s books, created by Germany-based choreographer Rotem Weissman and presented in the UK in partnership with the Goethe-Institut.
Lea Anderson says:
“The Playground Tour is a unique and powerful way to ensure that all children experience and enjoy high-quality performance and learning in their own playgrounds.”
Creative Crawley is part of the Stomping Ground Commissioning Partnership — a collective of organisations commissioning bold, original and ambitious dance works for outdoor spaces. The 2025/26 partners are Citymoves/Dance Live Festival, Fabric, FESTIVAL.ORG, Pagrav Dance, The Place, Strike A Light and Tramway.
Image: Lewis Norman for BUG. Credit Lewis Norman
