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WHAT’s on
WHAT’s on
SPRING 2025
We’ve toured 40/40 to Germany and Switzerland, plus our Hope & Ponies banners were in Bern, all while we made and premiered our newest show: Bottoms.
So now we're drawing breath: more about what's next soon!
“Two Destination Language can dance and draw and ask complex questions because they insist on art’s necessity: in their stage work but also through active community participation, talking and making with people across the UK, on such fraught topics as migration and hope. Art matters not (just) because it entertains, not (just) because it soothes, but because it looks in the eye of complicity, sits deep and brave in discomfort, and brings a sense of meaning in a time that seems to have none.”
—Maddy Costa, Something Other
So far in 2025, across two exhibitions, five performances, and six participation sessions, our work has reached an amazing audience of
164,938 people
164,938 people
BOTTOMS
BOTTOMS
Bottoms is about art, value and labour. Conjuring a joyous freedom, Bottoms’ five dancers seek refuge from the present-day world in fragments of a wild dance forged in the Industrial Revolution. The can-can. With crisps. And cava.
A new work commissioned for DIG, created by our award-winning lead artists Alister Lownie and Katherina Radeva working with a team of collaborators from across the UK.
Bottoms premiered 14-15 May 2025 at Tramway, Glasgow as part of Dance International Glasgow, and will be in England this autumn.
See more here
★★★★ A Young(ish) Perspective
“Full of life, energy, and intricate moments”
★★★★ Effervescent Magazine
“intimate, playful and fun”
Hope & Ponies
Hope & Ponies
Our growing collection of banners with messages of hope contributed by visitors in Tramway (Glasgow), libraries across Wakefield district, the Southbank Centre (London) and Wakefield's new new cultural centre, the WX building. A selection of the banners recently toured to Bern for auawirleben festival.
More dates and spaces to come across 2025
40/40
40/40
dancing Joy in defiance of Convention
dancing Joy in defiance of Convention
Our internationally renowned dance solo 40/40 was in Germany and Switzerland this spring.
★★★★ The Guardian "an exercise in generosity of spirit" Lyndsey Winship
★★★★ The Scotsman "all about forward motion, about moving on and up, about embracing life" Kelly Apter
★★★★ Corr Blimey " entirely in the moment"
★★★★ The Quintessential Review "a welcome invitation to celebrate the entire messy experience of being a human"
★★★★ All Edinburgh Theatre "joyful inspiration" Alan Wilson
Borders Together
Borders Together
Working with communities across The Scottish Borders, we co-created a new tartan design - Borders Together Tartan- displayed in community spaces across the area, and used in 10 creative projects with local communities.
For more information and to see the short films -- click here
Books - Books - Books
Books - Books - Books
we are so proud to have put these publications together bringing arts sector thinking about the future!
we are so proud to have put these publications together bringing arts sector thinking about the future!
We have published four books so far -- FIELD notes, FIELD Scotland on Value, FIELD notes: two and the 40/40 book by Katherina Radeva.
Each of these publications contain so much insight, click here to find out more Happy reading!
About us
About us
Two Destination Language makes bold, ambitious, award-winning work about identity and community. We employ innovative artistic forms to cross cultural, social, economic and geographic barriers, celebrating difference and placing the lives of those we work with at the heart of everything we do. Rooted in dialogue and collaboration, we believe in the transformative power of art to change how we see ourselves and the society we share. Our work brings people together in new, unexpected ways, creating shared spaces for reflection and mutual understanding.
Led by Katherina Radeva and Alister Lownie, Two Destination Language's work forms three strands of work - theatre work for stage, community co-creation projects and peer to peer curation and knowledge exchange projects.
Two Destination Language is migrant and disabled led registered charity committed to promoting the arts as a vital part of societal wellbeing, challenging populist ideas, reaching audience members from under-represented groups and supporting artists in every way we can.
email us -- producing@twodestinationlangauge.com
Image above: Bottoms, photo: Beth Chalmers
we are a charity
we are a charity
helping great art get made and connecting it to audiences is what we do, close to home and in places we visit
we believe nobody does their best work when struggling
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