Dancing for the Games

This December Dancing for the Games teamed up with Clothes Show Live!, incorporating The Dance Show, in our aim to get a million people dancing across the West Midlands. We have chosen our seven finalists from our golden catwalk competition who could win our fabulous fashion prize. And, everybody who [...]

The long awaited production of Cinderella from Ballet, Birmingham and Me took place last week to a packed house at Birmingham Hippodrome. Here’s the report from BBC Midlands Today. If you were one of the lucky few who saw this amazing show. We would love to hear from you. Tell [...]

This year Dancing for the Games teamed up with Clothes Show Live, incorporating The Dance Show, in our aim to get a million people dancing across the West Midlands in the lead up to the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. At Clothes Show Live people were strutting their stuff and [...]

Calling all fashionistas! Grab your Jimmy Choo’s, strike a pose and dance your way down the Dancing for the Games gold carpet at the Clothes Show Live before 8 December! Dancing for the Games has teamed up with The Clothes Show Live, incorporating The Dance Show, in our aim to get [...]

Hundreds of people have been learning new moves at The Dance Show to make sure that that they aren’t the David Brent of the office Christmas party this year! Dancing for the Games teamed up with The Clothes Show Live, incorporating The Dance Show, in our aim to get a million people dancing [...]

Business secretary Vince Cable will star in a Christmas edition of Strictly Come Dancing. His partner will be ballroom professional Erin Boag. Apparently he is a keen ballroom dancer and is already in training for his debut. He said: “I have had a couple of practice sessions with Erin, who [...]

Ballet, Birmingham and Me, Birmingham Royal Ballet’s Dancing for the Games project, ends in December with a performance of the classic fairytale Cinderella by the young people involved. Over the last 18 months teenagers from around Birmingham have taken ballet lessons with professional dancers; been on courses in lighting, set [...]

290,000 people played their part in ArtsFest, the UK’s largest free arts festival.  And Dancing for the Games was there too, encouraging people to get dancing as part of our region’s 2012 challenge. We had hundreds of people learning how to Bollywood dance to the soundtrack of Slumdog Millionaire, and [...]

Lots of dance events are being planned in the lead up to London 2012. Here’s a taster of what you can expect across the West Midlands over the next two years. Keep checking this site to find out more. Dancing on the Severn Valley Railway Next July expect hoards of [...]