The Sticky Dance at The Lowry
Shekina Rose, Families EditorBook now
The Sticky Dance
Always double check opening hours with the venue before making a special visit.
It’s time to forget everything you thought you knew about attending a dance performance. Sitting politely, clapping at the right time and pretending to understand the deeper meaning seriously does not apply in The Sticky Dance at The Lowry.
Get ready for an interactive, engaging and colourful performance installation for children and their families this October, as three dancers shimmy their way through the crowd, armed, not with perfect posture or pirouettes, but with rolls and rolls of sticky tape… sounds fun, right?
The performance, or ‘experience’, we should say, is for youngsters ages 3-5 and their grownups. It invites families to tape, stick, groove, crawl, flop or simply stare in awe. It’s not so much about sitting still and behaving – more about pushing the rules and seeing what happens!
The space itself is open for two hours, with entrance slots every fifteen minutes. It’s recommended you stay 45–60 minutes, but of course it depends how long your child decides to tape themselves to the floor for. We’re joking – sort of.
The Sticky Dance at The Lowry is genuinely an experience you can get ‘stuck’ (like what we did there?) into and have the most brilliant time and loads of laughs. For children, it’s liberating and sticky, for parents, it’s therapeutic and sticky. Always sticky, always making lots of lovely memories with your little ones.
