The Space Between

Project
Dance Your Way Home at Southbank Centre - Dancefloor Installation

Designed by: Qudus St Patrick
Produced by: Beyond the Box CIC
Commissioned by: Southbank Centre

Fabrication & Installation:

  • ARC Structures Ltd

  • Hyper Creative

  • JPS Events

  • Luke Watson

  • Simple Works

  • Myron Page & Abdul Rasheed 

Location
Central London - Southbank

When Southbank Centre invited Beyond The Box to design a dancefloor for their Dance Your Way Home season, we saw more than just a space to dance — we saw a space to connect, reflect, and reimagine how we move together.

We reached out to artist and designer Qudus St Patrick and his QSP Studio, and together, we created The Space Between — an interactive installation that lives between the River Thames and the iconic Southbank Centre. It’s a space where rhythm, sound, resistance, and community converge.

Framed by the everyday rhythm of the river and the pulse of cultural life, the terrace becomes a floor for reflection, celebration, and collective energy. A place to take up space and move with purpose — together. Here, we move differently.
We dance our histories. We dance for joy. For healing. For resistance.

What is a dancefloor?

Is it a stage? A kitchen? A street corner? Or is it the spark between two people moving to the same beat?

Space Between reimagines the dancefloor not as a fixed location, but as a living, breathing force — where every step becomes an act of presence, defiance, and celebration.

Shaped by Sound, Powered by People

At the heart of the design is a soundwave-inspired canopy that casts dancing silhouettes onto the floor — shapes that dance with the sun by day and glow with light by night. Like dance itself, these motifs are in constant motion, inviting everyone to join the movement.

This dynamic play of light, shadow, and colour transforms the terrace into a space where movement becomes memory, and resistance becomes rhythm.

This is a Shared Rhythm

Through creative workshops with young people, Counterpoints Arts / Heartbeats DJs, the installation carries many voices and many histories. Together, we’ve shaped a space that reflects a shared rhythm of culture, heritage, and creativity.

An Invitation to Move

We don’t just want you to see Space Between — we want you to feel it. Whether you sit, sway, or dance like everyone’s watching, this is your space to take up, to celebrate, to resist.

“When we pay attention to the in-between, we find opportunities to reimagine how we live together.”

Join us at Southbank Centre. Let’s meet in the space between — where stories unfold, music moves, and dance finds its voice.

We’ll see you on the dancefloor.

Thank you to our collaborators:

  • Counterpoints Arts / Heartbeats DJs

  • Tomorrow’s Warriors

  • Sam Elbahja

  • Benjamin Parry