Dancing for the Games

The Everybody Dance Now festival is bringing over 30 theatre and dance events to Wolverhampton from 30 July – 6 August 2011. Booking information and further details about the festival and its events can be found at www.centralyouththeatre.org. On the morning of Saturday 30 July, in the heart of Wolverhampton’s Queen Square, local [...]

Dance groups in the West Midlands celebrated one year to go to the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games with a variety of events for Open Weekend. Over 100,000 people attended the 60 events that took place from Friday 22 to Sunday 24 July, which was double the expected audience. Below is the [...]

Making Links is an exciting new dance project inspired by the industrial heritage of the Black Country. Over 2,000 young people are working with regional artists to explore the history of their local area. Black Country dancers and local residents have joined forces to save Mushroom Green chain making shop. [...]

This year’s London 2012 Open Weekend is this weekend 22-24 July 2011, marking the countdown to one year to go to the Olympic and Paralympic Games. Dancing for the Games has several events over the weekend including Dancefest’s 12 Moves, DanceXchange’s Breathe the Beat, Dudley Performing Arts’ Making Links and Central [...]

As part of Open Weekend, sampad are providing a free afternoon of dance, music, poetry performances and animations on Sunday 24th July, 12-7pm at The Public in West Bromwich. There will be a Dhol procession and lantern parade, rangoli, henna and lantern making in interactive workshops for all ages, and [...]

On 23 July 2011, The Great Train Dance will transform the Severn Valley Railway into a magical family experience with a puzzle to solve. With dancing at each station and in the train itself by a host of bizarre characters, this totally unique work will reveal all in a finale at the [...]

Dance Xplosion is a free extravaganza of dance on Saturday 16 July at Craven Arms Community Centre. The day will be packed full of dance performances and workshops and an opportunity to see top quality dance companies including Motionhouse, Group Senzala and Bollywood Dreams. Dance Xplosion promises to have Craven Arms buzzing with [...]

Rosie Kay Dance Company’s The Great Train Dance is set to transform the Severn Valley Railway into a magical experience with a puzzle to solve and a dance of another time. The Great Train Dance, which starts at Kidderminster station, includes performers, dancers and students from throughout the region who’ll perform a thriller for families aboard [...]

The circus is coming to town as part of the London 2012 Open Weekend and Six Summer Saturdays. Circus in the City, which has been produced by Birmingham Hippodrome, takes place on Saturday 23 July just one year before the start of the Olympic Games and  No Fit State Circus will be celebrating in Birmingham with [...]