Associate and Partner Companies

Associate Companies

Recognising the need to provide more than just financial support to help create change and diversify the arts sector, our relationship with our Associate Companies is bespoke and based around their individual needs.

As well as a commitment to programming their work, practical support in the form of regular rehearsal space, organisational development support and the opportunity to access training opportunities is provided to each company. The companies will also be given space and support to build relationships with each other as well as other creatives and organisations across Bradford district.

Bradford South Asian Festival

Bradford South Asian Festival (BSAF) is a grassroots, community-led initiative that celebrates South Asian heritage, arts, and culture created by, representative of and important to Bradford’s ‘desi’ diaspora communities. Started in 2020 by a group of volunteers from different professional and personal backgrounds, BSAF is all about bringing people together in an authentic, inclusive, and joyful way.

At its core, BSAF is about sharing and celebrating South Asian arts and culture while making it accessible to everyone. It’s a space where those who live and breathe South Asian creative and cultural traditions can celebrate, educate, and connect, welcoming those who want to learn and engage and delivering simple, joyful activities rooted in authenticity. BSAF believes in opening doors, and opening worlds – by creating meaningful cultural exchanges without losing the essence of who we are.

Originally growing out of a local response to South Asian Heritage Month, BSAF became a registered Community Interest Company (CIC) in 2024, showing our commitment to keeping the festival community-focused and sustainable. The festival brings together workshops, performances, and hands-on activities across different spaces, leading up to a big annual three-day summer celebration delivered alongside our friends at Kala Sangam. From music, dance, storytelling, and theatre to visual arts, crafts, cooking, comedy, and puppetry, BSAF showcases the depth and richness of grassroots South Asian creativity.

By breaking down barriers and making culture more accessible, BSAF aims to help strengthen community connections and ensure South Asian heritage remains a vibrant, celebrated part of Bradford’s identity.

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Mobius Dance

Mobius Dance is an award-winning contemporary dance company based in Bradford and Leeds. Artistic Director Gianluca Vincentini’s mission is to produce work and unique dance opportunities that inspire the public to watch, act, or participate. Central to creating these opportunities is the focus on making dance inclusive, diverse and accessible to all. We collaborate with artists that reflect the world we live in – it is for them to tell their story, challenging the audience perception, whilst also entertaining.

Ensuring that we break down barriers that might stop people achieving their dreams and artistic potential is vital.

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Rhythmosaic

Rhythmosaic Dance Company is the brainchild of dancer-choreographer Dr. Mitul Sengupta and researcher-choregrapher Dr. Shambik Ghose.

The company brings a multicultural and dynamic perspective to the artistic sphere that is born out of differences in experiences and diverse creative cultures.

Rhythmosaic exemplifies delicate fusion/ hybridization between traditional classical Indian dance with contemporary movement art and artistic aesthetics around the world in an attempt to be presented in high-quality settings that have relevant multicultural audiences throughout the globe.

The company’s artistic vision and choreographic research practice are drawn on Mitul and Shambik’s cultural background blended with contemporary dance and subject matters that speak vividly to diverse contemporary audiences.

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Partner Companies

Our Partner Companies are organisations who we have long standing, supportive relationships with. With our support and guidance, they have both joined the Arts Council’s National Portfolio of regularly funded organisations.

Company of Others

North East based Company of Others, led by Artistic Director Nadia Iftkhar, specialises in the co-creation of dance theatre work with people who have experience of being ‘othered’. Crackle.Dust, a powerful piece, sharing stories from women across the North premiered at Kala Sangam in 2019 and recent project Grief Floats has seen them create a piece in the North Sea which honours and witnesses global grief.

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Jaivant Patel Company

Jaivant Patel Co is an award-winning South Asian Arts organisation rooted in Wolverhampton and is currently one of the leading voices in amplifying Queer South Asian narratives on the UK cultural landscape and dance scene.

Jaivant Patel Co artistic drive lies in the JOYFUL, REIMAGINING of BOLD human stories. The interweaving, assimilation and blending of Kathak and contemporary dance, inform the urgency in creation of universal work, that reimagines pertinent global intercultural narratives and celebrates the intersectionality of modern lived experiences.

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