What We Do

Lost Dog was formed in 2004 by myself and Raquel Meseguer. The name came from the idea of a mongrel. The mongrel is a dog who has lost track of its heritage. It is not a pure breed, or even a cross breed it is its own thing, made up of bits of God knows what. We wanted to make mongrel work. It didn’t feel particularly cutting edge to us, actually it felt quite old fashioned because what we were interested in doing was using whatever we felt was right (and achievable within our limited skill set) to tell a story. The story was the thing. And still is.
— Ben Duke

Since 2004 we have created and toured 10 full length shows including National Dance Award winning Ruination; undertaken commissions with national partners including Candoco, Scottish Dance Theatre and, most notably, the Olivier Award Nominated Goat for Rambert; run more than 100 participatory workshops; organised annual Summer Residential Workshops; and hosted countless micro-residencies and mentoring sessions through our professional development programme - Lost Dog @ Laughton.

We continue to tour our work across the UK and internationally.