Arbonauts
About us
Arbonauts is led by artists Helen Galliano and Dimitri Launder. Founded in 2012, we create site-specific performance at the meeting point of theatre, installation and dance, working with movement, site and sound. Arbonauts is a multi-disciplinary company with a socially-engaged core. All our work is made in collaboration with others – often in combination with other creatives and community participants. We’ve taken 1000+ people into a tunnel 10m under the Thames, created a journey of reimagined birdsong along ½ kilometre of coastline and danced with open-water swimmers in a tidal pool on the Essex coast.
Our partners and supporters indicate the breadth of our creative reach, including: Arts Council England, British Council, Estuary Festival, Goethe Institut, Inside Out Dorset, Latitude Festival, Metal, Shoreditch Town Hall, Southwark Council and Metropolis Festival.
“Immersive experience experts Arbonauts are back with another mind-bending mixture of art, theatre and music.”
Time Out London
“Perfect for those seeking unconventional theatrical experiences.”
A Younger Theatre
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Helen Galliano
Helen is a creative director and producer with a background in human rights, performance and large-scale cultural projects. She has delivered dynamic projects in complex sites, enabling bold and inclusive storytelling and proposing creative responses and new approaches to deliver culture with impact. She works innovatively and strategically with artists, communities and audiences, for organisations including LIFT, Artangel, Haringey Council, Matsena Productions, Studio Gaylene Gould, Coventry City of Culture and the Greater London Authority.
Dimitri Launder
Dimitri is Artist Gardener where he consults, designs and delivers gently provocative planting propagations. He has worked with RHS Hampton Court Palace Flower Show, Arts Catalyst, Tate Britain, Tate Modern, ICA and South London Gallery, resulting in a diverse spectrum of works from conversations to walks, installations and interventions, exhibitions, festivals, live television and often gardens. Dimitri was co-founder of AREA-10, a project space in Peckham that supported 2000+ emergent artists to make and show new work in an independent process-led environment.
Our Projects
We create site-specific performance at the meeting point of theatre, dance & installation.
