Building Resilience and Overcoming Adversity through Dance & Drama (BROAD) is an innovative dance theatre pilot programme designed for vulnerable groups in prisons, secure children's centres and secure hospitals, co-created by Odd Arts company and Company Chameleon. Its innovation derives from the combination of theatre and dance, underpinned by training in non-violent communication and strengths based and trauma informed work within a restorative practice framework. UCLAN’s Psychosocial Research Unit (Professor Lynn Froggett and
Hugh Ortega Breton PhD) explored a number of concepts, including use of space in physical confinement; embodied learning; being ‘in touch’; pyschosocial and bodily integration.

"The progression to touching in the course of movement exercises comes about as an organic part of the dance theatre process. It is worth emphasising what a delicate achievement this is in settings where touch can so easily be conflated with physical violence or else provokes anxieties of inappropriate sexualisation."