The company meets twice weekly during term time (Mondays and Thursdays from 6pm - 8pm) to take class, create and perform work by a range of choreographers. Auditions are held each year in September and attract young dancers from all over London. Shift is professionally led by a rehearsal director and manager. There is a fee of £50 per term which can be paid on a on a termly or half-termly basis. 

The company works regularly with guest choreographers, and in recent years commissioned artists have included Protein Dance, Lisa Spackman, Martin Lawrance, Vanessa Haska, Shelly Love and Tom Dale. 

This academic year Shift have worked with Zoi Dimitriou to create You're too Short for that Gesture which was performed amongst other venues at Fresh 07 in The Place: Robin Howard Dance Theatre, The Peackock and the  Lilyan Baylis. The company also worked with Avatara Ayuso, to create a second piece called 9-teen performed at the Purcell Room, Hackney Empire and The Place.  

This summer Shift were selected to take part in the National Youth Dance Festival 08 which was held in London; this was the first time the company was invited to take part in a national platform.

Dancers from Shift have gone on to train full time at London Contemporary Dance School, Laban and Northern School of Contemporary Dance.