About

A male performer hangs in an aerial harness down the side of a theatre. There are lots of people on the ground below, looking up in wonder
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All or Nothing Aerial Dance Theatre are Scotland’s leading aerial dance company creating, performing, teaching and developing aerial arts throughout the country.

Our work crosses the boundaries between the floor, air and the space between, merging aerial arts with dance theatre and contemporary circus.

With performances ranging from small scale theatre to large scale outdoor spectacle, we tour extensively across Scotland, creating our own theatrical works for touring as well as developing aerial elements for events.

Over the past two years we completed a 37 venue tour with our outdoor work for families, The Swings.  Part performance and part installation, The Swings is both an aerial dance duet and an open invitation for the public to swing high and free. 

“Beautifully staged, skillfully performed and a great advertisement for aerial dance”

Kelly Apter

In 2020 we were awarded a Screen Dance Scotland commission, creating the short aerial dance film Floor Falls, in collaboration with Cagoule Productions, which so far has screened at 25 film festivals worldwide.

Much of our work encompasses outdoor and large scale spectacle. We have hung from cranes for the award winning Paisley Halloween Festival, flown through the trees in the outdoor sound and light shows Enchanted Forest and Archerfield’s Christmas Fairy Trail, and danced down iconic buildings such as the Glasgow Science Centre for Cryptic’s Sound to Sea, Princes Street for Edinburgh’s Hogmanay, the Tyne Bridge in Newcastle and a company favourite Celtic Connections Bothy Culture and Beyond with the Grit Orchestra and Danny MacAskill.

Participation is vital to the company’s work, believing that aerial and dance is for everyone, developing all kinds of opportunities for this to happen. All or Nothing constantly challenge assumptions of who can do aerial, opening up the artform to as many people as possible, developing audiences and participants.