Mature Artists Dance Experience (MADE)

Mature Artists Dance Experience (MADE) is about passion, experience, and community connection. In 2025, MADE celebrates two decades as a cultural tour de force in mature artistry. They are a revolutionary arts organisation that believes in the power of movement to transform, connect, and inspire. MADE is a collective of mature dancers, artists, and creatives breaking barriers in dance and redefining what it means to move, create, and perform.

They are a celebration of movement, art, and wisdom. Since 2005, MADE has toured nationally and internationally, delivering bold, high-quality performances that challenge perceptions of age and ability. Their vision is to lead the dance world with original works, connect people through participation, and ambitiously drive a global agenda—redefining the mature body onstage. With collaborations spanning choreographers, composers, and interdisciplinary artists, they bring together dance, spoken word, multimedia, and live music to create powerful and unexpected performances.

But MADE is more than a performance company—it’s a movement. Through workshops, community projects, and mentorship, they champion lifelong creativity and inclusivity in the arts, proving that dance belongs to everyone. Their work sparks conversations, challenges expectations, and inspires audiences worldwide.

At Festival of Voices, MADE merges movement and voice, embracing the synergy between dance and song to tell compelling stories. They are storytellers. They are movers. They are artists dedicated to bringing the unexpected, the raw, and the deeply human to the stage.

Image credit: Amy Brown