The Story Detectives

Are you brave? Ready for adventure? Fabulous at finding letters?

Join Story Detectives Playful and Particular as they journey round your local library collecting letters, solving clues, and building an adventure story.

Choreographed by award-winning choreographer Katie Green, with original writing by poet Anna Selby and a dynamic soundscore including original music by Max Perryment, The Story Detectives is an interactive danced adventure to find the Most Important Story. Suitable for children of all ages (especially aged 3-8) and their grown-ups.

Watch our Social Story Film for The Story Detectives here or read the Social Story as a pdf here. You can also watch our audience experience trailer by Dan Martin here to find out more about the performances. 

We are really excited to have received funding from the National Lottery through Arts Council England to bring The Story Detectives to more libraries across the country in 2025 and 2026! 

    We are proudly Fantastic for Families and have signed up to the Family Arts Standards. The Story Detectives is an event with particular appeal to families, and can be enjoyed by people of all generations attending together.

    If you have any comments or questions about The Story Detectives or any of our performance projects, please get in touch by emailing katie (at) madebykatiegreen.co.uk . We value your feedback.

    Watch the recording of our Zoom event in October 2023 to hear more about what happened with our Story Detectives touring in 2022/23 and hear our plans for the future.

    If you are interested in working towards your own dance in libraries event, you can now also read some of our Top Tips for working with dance in this context and our 2023 Evaluation here.

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    The Story Detectives is a Delight Charity commission created by Made By Katie Green. It will be funded 2025-26 by the National Lottery through Arts Council England, Delight, Surrey Libraries, Telford and Wrekin Libraries, Northamptonshire Libraries, Dorset Council Libraries, Applause Rural Touring, Barnet Libraries, Nottingham Inspire: Culture, Learning and Libraries, and the Stepping into Stories Festival.

    Creative team:

    Directed by Katie Green

    Choreographed and performed by Megan Griffiths and Chloe Mead

    Original choreography by Amarnah Ufuoma Cleopatra and Hannah Rotchell (2019)

    The characters of Playful and Particular are also performed by Katie Albon, Aimee Dulake and Amarnah Ufuoma Cleopatra

    Writing: Anna Selby

    Original Composition: Max Perryment

    Design: Chloe Mead

    Additional design consultation: Lucy Starkey

    Producer: Vicky Thornton

    Developed in consultation with Kathryn Mills and Jessica Clarke from Delight.

    Photography, 2023: Roswitha Chesher

    Filming: Josh Thompson and Dan Martin

    Access consultation: Gideon Feldman, Attitude is Everything

    If you are looking for the Delight in Dance project, in which we use The Story Detectives performance as part of a programme of work in primary schools linked to the literacy curriculum, please go to the 'Commissions' section of our website here.

    Two dancers, dressed as a hero and a villain, face each other menacingly, with one arm across their chests and the other held high.
    Further performance information will be updated in due course, so check back for more details or contact us.
    Two dancers jump high into the air, in the children's section of a library, surrounded by bookcases filled with all kinds of books.
    Two dancers, The Story Detectives, dressed with brightly coloured trousers and patterned shirts, stand in front of a wall of books in a library. Particular - the Story Detective in front - looks to her side as Playful, the Story Detective standing behind, rests her chin on Particular's shoulder. Playful looks very cheeky.
    Two dancers dressed in bright colours perform in a library - they both point outwards into the camera, as if looking for something in the distance, about to start their adventure.
    Playful, one of The Story Detectives, lifts Particular, her fellow detective, up in the air, her arms clasped around her waist so that Particular is lifting her legs up in a long diagonal line, with her head pointed down to the floor.
    I have seen lots of children’s theatre before, but this truly shone. So exciting to see site-specific theatre that is so well crafted for children.
    Parent feedback,
    Thrilling, enjoyable, and most importantly, extremely interactive!
    Audience member,
    Very interactive, entertaining and inspiring. All our family enjoyed it.
    Audience member,
    The performance was absolutely stunning and the most enjoyable part was the interactive session they had, as we could see how everybody was involved and enjoyed every bit.
    Audience member,
    Absolutely brilliant! Such a great idea and really well done.
    Audience member,
    Brilliant!! Really enjoyed it. Brilliant for making kids confident and for imaginative learning.
    Audience member,

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