Anjali Dance Company, whose professional dancers are all adults with a learning disability, is the foremost of its kind in the UK. Based in Banbury, Oxfordshire, the Company tours nationally and also undertakes a varied programme of education and outreach work.

Anjali's work transcends boundaries; it breaks down preconceptions; it attacks misconceptions. The Company's performances offer a blank canvas upon which a previously unseen jewel of a dance aesthetic emerges, and its arresting originality rarely fails to stun.

The Company's dancers display an acute sense of style and perform bold, truthful and grounded dance with exquisite humour and elegance. In part, this has come about because this Company uses dance as a platform for positive self-development and enables a safe space in which creative inspiration can unfold. Thus Anjali's danceworks constantly evolve, by developing new ways of working, by collaborating with musicians and visual artists and by bridging dance with cutting-edge creative technologies such as digital media and film.

In preparing for its new production 'WYSIWYG', Anjali Dance Company asked the Ric Sanders Group to produce a music track for use with a promotional film. From the outset, Musicians and Dancers immediately and successfully began to interact and improvise. This is a deliciously organic creative process encouraged individual dance responses as the artists reflected on past experiences. As a result, unique and distinctive dance phrases were developed: these inspired the final piece of the WYSIWYG trilogy named 'Parable'. The piece explores the notion of physical being and spirituality, and will be performed during Anjali's imminent 2003/3 national tour.