Big news ❄️✨
Thrilled to share that Brrr has received support from @creativescots Touring Fund for Theatre and Dance!
With this support, we can take the work on the road, meet new audiences with complex needs, and bring sensory theatre to venues across Scotland 🏴
Touring Winter 2026/2027 — watch this space 👀
Thank you to everyone who continues to support Brrr 💙
📸 @stillmotionarts
#Brrr #CreativeScotland #TouringFund #SensoryTheatre
🥶 Brrr teaser 🥶
Today is Valentine’s Day so very excited to share something that has been made with a lot of love…Brrr, a new sensory installation and live performance, made for audiences with complex needs aged 10-18.
An immersive exploration of winter, Brrr features dance, sound, video, and lots and lots of snow!
Brrr team
Choreographer & Performer – Hayley Earlam @hearlam
Producer – Isy Sharman @isy_sharman
Designer – Jenny Booth @jenny.bbooth
Composer & Sound Artist – Ollie Hawker @ollie.p.hawker
Video Designer – Rob Willoughby @abbenay2300
Performer – Clare Adam @clare_adam97
Performer – Kiel Jonathan Clarke-Davis @kj9tweezy
Production Manager – Elle Taylor @_elle__taylor_
Technical Stage Manager – Craig McNeill @xxcxmcnxx
Creative Access Consultant – Kirstin Abraham @kirstin_georgia
Choreographic Mentor – Marc Brew @marcbrewcompany
BSL Interpreter – Rachel Amey @rachelameypoem
Graphic Designer – Maya Rose Edwards @mre_arts
Filmmaker – Lewis Landini @lewislandini@captheatres@creativescots@rcsofficial@the_work_room_dance
#brrr #sensorytheatre
Inside the making of roses are red 🌹
This process began with a question: how can colour be experienced with all the senses?
Working alongside young children with complex needs, this new research explores red as something more than visual. Red as a sensory, embodied, and relational experience using movement, sound, touch, and environment.
This short film captures moments from the creative process: experimenting, listening and discovering new ways of building performance in collaboration with the intended audience from the very beginning.
Supported by @rcs_innovationstudio@the_work_room_dance@youthlinkscot
🎥 by Ben Winger
#PerformanceResearch #InclusiveArts #ContemporaryPerformance #Sensory #AccessInTheArts
We are very excited to be previewing Boys Don’t Dance this month at multiple venues across Scotland!
Everyone is welcome at Boys Don’t Dance! Each performance is a relaxed show, and also has a sensory access table available in the foyer, an access announcement before the show starts, creative captioning, audio description, and creative translation of signed performances.
We have created a Social Story for Boys Don’t Dance, so everyone can familiarise themselves with what the show is about and what to expect before stepping into the theatre. Please scan the QR code at the end, or visit the link in our bio to read the full version of the Social Story and learn more about Boys Don’t Dance.
Also, read our latest blog post to view Access Guides on each venue we are performing in, linked in our bio. We hope to see you soon at Boys Don’t Dance!
#BoysDontDance #MarcBrewCompany #SocialStory #EveryoneIsWelcome #DanceTheatreFamily @edchildrensfest@aberdeenperformingarts@marcbrew@hearlam@artistimaginate@weareoneren@paisleyartcentre@edencourttheatrecinema@traversetheatre@susan_ripplearts
Image Credit: Rebecca Doggett and Susan Hay
Swipe ➡️ to read what audiences are saying about Brrr ❄️
We’re so grateful to the caring adults and young people who have shared this experience with us and given us such glowing feedback.
Brrr is an immersive, multi-sensory installation and dance performance by Hayley Earlam for young audiences aged 10–18 with complex needs.
Part of @madeinscotland_showcase at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
❄️ 10:30 & 13:00
❄️ 18–22 August
❄️ Nicolson Square Venues – Great Hall
❄️ Tickets now. Tickets in bio.
roses are red…but what does red feel like? 🌹
roses are red is new performance research created for and with young people aged 3-8 with complex needs. Focussing on sensory experience and emotional resonance, the colour red moves beyond something we simply see. Red becomes texture, rhythm, energy, temperature, pressure - engaging a multi sensory and immersive approach to performance and choreography.
Creative team:
@jade.moves@stillmotionarts@isy_sharman
📸 @tiumakko
Supported by:
@youthlinkscot@rcs_innovationstudio@the_work_room_dance
#InclusiveArt #PerformanceResearch #AccessInTheArts #SensoryExperience #SensoryTheatre
Some beautiful audience feedback:
“The most inclusive & magical performance I’ve ever been to!”
Brrr is an immersive, multi-sensory installation and dance performance for young audiences aged 10–18 with complex needs. We are coming to Edinburgh Fringe as part of the @madeinscotland_showcase
❄️10:30 &13:00
❄️18–22 August
❄️Nicolson Square Venues - Great Hall
Tickets on sale now. Link in bio ⬆️
We’ll also be bringing our immersive winter world on a Scotland-wide tour this winter - details coming soon! #edfringe #Brrr #madeinscot
Last night we went beyond the five senses to reimagine how we experience the world with sensory artist and researcher, Hayley Earlam.
Her work with complex needs young people showcased how the human body can actually posses between 22 and 33 distinct senses that are overlooked in how our senses and environment interact, and how expanding this awareness can shift the way we experience everyday life.
If you missed out on this talk but want to catch one in the future, tickets for next month are on sale now.
🧠 Talk : “Beyond the Five Senses: Reimagining How We Experience the World”
🎤 Speaker: Sensory Artist and Researcher, @hearlam
📍Location: @inndeepbar , Glasgow
🎟️ How to get tickets for our next event:
Tickets are live right now via movingminds.world
A social story* for Brrr ❄️
This post will help you know what to expect when you come to Brrr.
Brrr is a multi-sensory performance for you to explore in your own way and at your own pace. This is a non-judgemental space, where all individual stims, noises & behaviours are welcome.
Set inside an inflatable dome, you can enter, leave and come back as you like. There is a Dip Out Space if you would like to take a break.
Brrr is part of @edchildrensfest and the @madeinscotland_showcase at the @edfringe and will tour Scotland in winter 2026 across venues and ASN schools as part of @creativescots Touring Fund and @tiss_scotland
We are looking forward to welcoming you.
Brrr Social Story designed by @mre_arts
*A Social Story is a short narrative used to help individuals - particularly those with autism or neurodiversity - understand social situations, routines, or expectations.
@edchildrensfest@madeinscotland_showcase@creativescots
Snow drifts. Light shimmers. Sound hums. ❄️
Step inside Brrr - a new sensory installation and live performance by Hayley Earlam, created for young audiences aged 10–18 with complex needs.
A softly held winter world where snow crunches under curious hands, movement responds in real time and every moment unfolds at the pace of the young people in the room.
Immersive. Responsive. Radically inclusive.
Coming to Edinburgh Fringe 2026!
Trailer by: @lewislandini
#edinburghfringe
What if we experience the world through more than five senses?
Join Hayley Earlam, sensory choreographer and creator of Brrr, for an exploration of how inclusive, sensory design can deepen connection and open up creative spaces for all.
Drawing on her work with young people with complex needs, Hayley will share insights into the body’s sensory systems - and how designing with, not for, audiences can transform how we make and experience performance.
Accessibility as a starting point.
Collaboration as practice.
A richer, more responsive way of sensing the world.
Doors 7:30pm
Intros 7:50pm
Talk 8pm
Q&A 8:40pm
❄️ We’re so excited to share that Brrr is coming to the Imaginate Festival 2026 and that we have already SOLD OUT for schools. But there are still delegate tickets left!
Thank you to everyone who has booked - we can’t wait to welcome you into this immersive, gently held winter world created by Hayley Earlam.
If you missed out, don’t worry - more dates will be announced very soon!
Brrr is an immersive, multi-sensory winter world and dance performance by Hayley Earlam, created for young audiences aged 10–18 with complex needs. Textures invite touch; movement listens and responds. Every moment unfolds at the pace of the young people in the room.
Radically child-centred and inclusive by design, Brrr is a gently held space where everyone is invited to explore, in their own way. ❄️
@edschildrensfest
📸 Brian Hartley @stillmotionarts
