Dancing for the Games

Rosie Kay Dance Company has created a film of their Dancing for the Games performance of The Great Train Dance. Watch the film below to see how Rosie transformed the Severn Valley Railway into a unique, large scale dance performance For more information, visit the information page for The Great [...]

World of Dance belly dance artist Carol is set to perform at Longton Town Centre’s Christmas Lights switch-on celebration tonight (Friday 25 November) at 7.15pm. The Christmas Lights switch-on is at 8pm, and there is activity from 1pm in the Strand, Longton, Stoke-on-Trent. Meanwhile, World of Dance artist Sohan Kailey, [...]

Surprise dance performances will appear in empty shop windows in Worcester, Malvern and Tenbury this winter as part of Dancing for the Games project 12 Moves. Dancers from Dancefest will create a wintry world for passers-by, appearing on Friday 2 December at Worcester Christmas Fayre and Saturday 10 December at Tenbury [...]

Yesterday saw the launch of International Dance Festival Birmingham 2012, a world-class programme of dance from 23 April to 19 May in and around Birmingham next year. The launch event, hosted by festival producers DanceXchange and Birmingham Hippodrome, gave the first details about the exciting programme of events as well [...]

Get Dancing is the first ever county wide dance programme which will provide thousands of people in Staffordshire with the fantastic opportunity to take part in a London 2012 inspired dance project or event. They’ve produced this great video to introduce the project, so give it a watch: Get Dancing [...]

sampad‘s Dancing for the Games project Moving Earth is holding open workshops in Birmingham on Saturday 26 November. The workshop will be held at mac at Cannon Hill Park where you’ll be able to try out ancient Indian martial arts dance led by Saju Hari (pictured), a professional dancer from [...]

Boys Dancing has just been awarded additional funding from Arts Council England to ensure that we can go ahead and make six dance films – The Quiet Man Suite – which will  examine social injustices in today’s world as a means of investigating the impact that a single person can have [...]

The competition is hotting up for Breathe the Beat as the video entries are coming in and starting to gain votes. If you want a chance to win prizes, including meeting Salah himself, upload your one-minute dance routine in any style to the Breathe the Beat website soon. If you [...]

Rosetta Life, who work through the creative arts to enable people who are living with serious illness, are developing a young people’s paediatric palliative care learning festival for 2012. The festival has four strands and each site will have its own particular project that will contribute a distinct element to [...]