Dancing for the Games

Blind Dave, the first blind person in the world to have completed the ultimate endurance challenge of seven marathons in seven days on seven continents, is joining Dance Sansaar’s Lawk Naach World Record attempt for the largest Bhangra and Giddha dance. You can join Dave and over 2,000 other people [...]

On Saturday 30 June from 12 noon,  Victoria Park in Smethwick will host West Midlands’ biggest Mela where Dance Sansaar will celebrate the arrival of the Olympic torch with are the record-breaking dance finale of Lawk Naach. Dance Sansaar are hoping to get 2012 people of all ages to take part in [...]

This Sunday join the Get Dancing Festival for a spectacular day-long event to mark the end of Staffordshire’s first ever county-wide dance programme in the beautiful grounds of Stafford Castle. The festival will feature a Breathe the Beat Roadshow as well as live performances from Retina Dance Company, professional dancers, young [...]

On Saturday 30 June, six stages of incredible dance and Live Music will take place at Glow Dance Festival, a one-day festival in the heart of Hereford. Warm up in the afternoon with tea dances, b-boy competitions, ballet, Bollywood, Ballroom and loads more. Then at night Castle Green will be transformed for [...]

Do you want to perform at a Breathe the Beat roadshow? Breathe the Beat is looking for groups of performers to dance at the roadshows which will be travelling to the West Midlands from January to September 2012 to showcase the best competition entrants, local talent and professional dance companies. [...]

On 14 June, World of Dance invited the people of Stoke-on-Trent to grab a partner as part of Dancing for the Games. If you couldn’t make it to Kings Hall or want to relive the evening, this fantastic video will give you a flavour of the Tea Dance:

Rail Gaddi (or conga as it’s popularly known) is a project working in partnership with a wide range of schools, community groups and local businesses will be recreating one of the most successful dance crazes in recent times. You can join our Rail Gaddi conga line along the route of The [...]

Rosetta Life will be celebrating the voices of young people accessing hospices at a one-day festival in Birmingham. One of the highlights of the festival will be the chance to see a performance of Rosetta Life’s project with the West Bromwich Albion Foundation and Acorns Children’s Hospice. The free Rosetta Life [...]

GLOW Dance Festival is the spectacular finale to hr1, an eighteen-month dance project taking place across Herefordshire. GLOW kicks off with a festival style afternoon event fizzing with dance to see and do. Featuring a Breathe the Beat Roadshow, tea dances, b-boy competitions, a ballroom blitz, dance films, and dance [...]