Vipul Bhatti is a contemporary and Kathak dancer, who worked with a musician and spoken word artist on Half Moon Theatre’s Exchange for Change programme. This encourages collaboration between artists from different artforms, who develop their work in direct collaboration with their target audience. Here Vipul describes showcasing the work-in-progress of The Closer I Get, The Distant I Am to teenage boys at a pupil referral unit.

Vipul talks about another part of the Exchange for Change programme which he was also involved in, When Spring Comes, which he created with a visual artist and jazz trumpeter. Interviewed by Caitlin Ralph.