Sophie Cottle / Work / Smoosh

Smoosh! / Parade Director
Gloucester, July 2026

Creative Team
Artistic Director Charles Hazlewood
Composer Emma-Jean Thackray
Parade Director Sophie Cottle
Original Choreography Tom Jackson Greaves + Beth Hinton-Lever
Revival Choreographer Gareth Mole
Community Director Kate Pasco
Local Partners Strike A Light, Tredworth Junior School and St James C of E Junior School
Photography Camilla Adams

SMOOSH!

A rip-roaring parade from Paraorchestra and Strike A Light

Taking to the streets of Gloucester, SMOOSH! brings a high energy wind and brass band to Tredworth in a celebration of music, movement, and community. The joy-packed parade features a selection of pop bangers and karaoke classics - with tunes from Fatboy Slim and Basement Jaxx, to Kate Bush and Adele. A core of Paraorchestra musicians - accompanied by dancers, and alongside members of the local community - will form a mobile human jukebox that invites you out onto the street to dance and sing along in a magnificent communal 'mass-aoke'.