15 November 2025 to 10 January 2026
Produced in partnership with Tenfoot Dance Company and performed and filmed at locations across North Lincolnshire as part of ‘The Woman’s Movement 100’, a major national touring project, Arc in Movement presents a film and multi-media installation to be exhibited at 20-21 Visual Arts Centre, shining a light on our unique place and community.
You may have spotted a procession of people dressed in stone coloured costumed at key landmarks and locations around Scunthorpe during October 2025?
This was our intergenerational Arc in Movement community cast made up of 50 women and a hand full of men representing the suffragette and suffragist movement. Aged between 13 and 80 our cast came together to rehearse and discuss locally relevant themes to mark the count-down to 100 years since all women gain equal rights to vote in 2028. Arc in Movement celebrates our area and our stories through movement, dance, visual art and poetry.
Filmed on location at 20-21 Visual Arts Centre, Normanby Hall Country Park, Julian’s Bower, Winn Street, Frodingham footbridge, Keadby Bridge, the Ridgeway walk, East Common Lane, the High Street and British Steel, this dance for film piece captures our heritage and looks towards a future that continues the local themes of industry, landscape, community, unity and strength that runs alongside the ongoing struggles towards equality. Alongside the film you will see installations relating to the creation of the piece, documentary photography and interventions design to provoke discussion and reflections about the past and present shining a light on our unique place and community. Workshops spanning a range of creative arts will take place in the exhibition space for the duration of the show to continue the discussions.
This long-term project is the vision of Fred Garland of Ten Foot Dance Company, working with visual artists and academic research around female equality, emancipation and democracy. North Lincolnshire picks up the baton from the previous Hull chapter called ‘Turning the Tide’ which explored the role of women in the renewable energy and offshore wind sector to produce a creative, performance-based film and exhibition that featured dancers and female scientists. Our project takes it’s starting point from the Scunthorpe-made steel of the Humber Bridge to tell our stories, and point to a future that is shaped by our landscape, industries, allyship and action. As well as the movement cast the exhibition has been shaped by students from the North Lincolnshire Engineering UTC, steelworkers and spoken word groups.
Aspiring to become part of a 2028 presentation to mark the centenary celebration of all women getting the right to vote in London – North Lincolnshire’s video and exhibits will combine with elements from Sheffield, Newcastle, Liverpool, Hull and other regions, to create a unified national project marking this important moment.
Tenfoot Dance Company
Source: 20-21 Visual Arts centre Facebook
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