Dancing for the Games

Get Dancing are holding a series of half term workshops, 13-17 February, in Lichfield, Walsall and Newcastle-under-Lyme. The workshops offer you the chance to take part in a further dance project leading to an opportunity to perform. Download a Get Dancing Open Workshops leaflet [PDF]. For more information about ways [...]

Boys Dancing – the Dancing for the Games project led by Warwick Arts Centre that encourages boys and young men to make and share – has given an update on its progress and posted test footage of its upcoming film. “The Boys Dancing project continues to gather momentum, with the [...]

International Dance Festival Birmingham are looking for 1000 individuals from across the West Midlands to contribute towards Home, an inventive new dance production that will move through the streets of Birmingham city centre during International Dance Festival Birmingham 2012 between 23 April – 13 May 2012. “We are collecting creative contributions [...]

A documentary about Dancing for the Games project Everybody Dance Now will be screening at the Light House Cinema in Wolverhampton on Saturday 21st Jan at 10.45am. The documentary is an hour long and covers every aspect of the creation of the project including the festival itself and the launch [...]

Dance Connected is set to celebrate its launch as Staffordshire’s dance development network and unveil its county-wide Dancing for the Games project Get Dancing at a launch event in Newcastle-Under-Lyme on 17 January 2012. Get Dancing – Open Workshops from Dance Connected on Vimeo. The Get Dancing programme is focused [...]

Dance Connected are looking for a number of shadowing dance artists to assist in the delivery of a disability dance project which links the Aiming High programme to Staffordshire Dancing for the Games project Get Dancing. The projects will take place in five specified locations in Staffordshire, including Tamworth, South Staffordshire, Staffordshire [...]

Digital dance project Encompass is gearing up for 2012 with workshops and a new appointment. Two Encompass development workshops have taken place this month at William Brookes School with young people engaging in a variety of dance and digital activities such as exploring Olympic values through geometry and with cutting edge [...]

The next term of hr1′s Activate dance classes start on Monday 9 January in Kington, Bromyard, Leominster, Ross, and Hereford. The Activate dance classes – which are run by 2Faced Dance Company in partnership with Dancefest and Herefordshire Council –  is about giving people of all ages living across Herefordshire [...]

Rosie Kay‘s Dancing for the Games project The Great Train Dance has been featured on the cover of Animated Magazine, a community dance magazine is published by the Foundation for Community Dance. The issue focuses on site-specific dance practice and features photos from The Great Train Dance in action. Animated [...]