Dancing for the Games

Get Dancing is a county-wide dance programme which will provide thousands of people in Staffordshire with the opportunity to take part in a London 2012-inspired dance project or event. They’ve produced a new video of their open workshops which you can watch below: To find out more about Get Dancing [...]

Dancing for the Games is part of Big Dance 2012‘s Big Dance Hub in the West Midlands. The Hub is being led by DanceXchange and also includes Dancefest, danceScape, Dudley Performing Arts, Shropshire and Telford Arts Partnership, and Staffordshire Council. Big Dance is a biennial celebration of dance and dancing with 9 days of dance [...]

As part of Dancing for the Games, Dance Sansaar are delivering free ‘Discovery’ workshops across the Midlands where you can learn Lawk Naach dance movements. Dance Sansaar has also put a series of dance tutorial videos online.  The Dance Sansaar project culminates in a large site-specific event in Birmingham, where [...]

The Bubble Chamber has put an archive of its activity on the Mercurial Dance website including words, images, and videos. The Bubble Chamber was a digital dance project led by Mercurial Dance made as part of Dancing for the Games. It took place in ‘void’ shops throughout the West Midlands with young adults aged 14-19 [...]

Kinetica Dance Engine is as new dance company for the Staffordshire Moorlands region that will perform a new work as part of Get Dancing on 1st July 2012. The company will be working from January to July 2012 on a new dance work, choreographed by UK-based choreographer and dance filmmaker Julia [...]

Midlands Best Dance Crew 2011 – which is organised by Punch and 2Funky – was at Birmingham’s Town Hall on 26 November. Now there’s a behind-the-scenes video from the event. Check it out below: The video was made by 33TV, a Birmingham-based online music channel dedicated to showcasing and promoting [...]

Everybody Dance Now is aiming to leave a legacy of glamour and romance after their Dancing for the Games project comes to an end. Here’s an extract from the Everybody Dance Now blog that touches on why legacy is so important ahead of their December events Glamour and Romance & [...]

Stoke-on-Trent’s Dancing for the Games project World of Dance is encouraging people to take part in a ballroom and modern sequence dance in the city next week. The event at Adderley Green Working Men’s Club on Tuesday 13 December, 8.30pm, is open to anyone to take to the floor and is designed to encourage [...]