Dancing for the Games

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 [...]

Set in the scenic grounds of Stafford Castle, the Get Dancing Festival is a spectacular daylong event to mark the end of Staffordshire’s first ever county-wide dance programme. Featuring a Breathe the Beat Roadshow as well as live performances from Retina Dance Company, professional dancers, young people and community groups. There is also chance to take [...]

There’s a huge variety of Cultural Olympiad events and activities happening across the West Midlands this summer including loads as part of Dancing for the Games. And now there’s a video trailer showing you some of the highlights so far and coming up: To make sure you hear about upcoming [...]

A world record attempt for largest Bhangra and Giddha dance will be made on 30th June 2012 at Victoria Park, Smethwick, when 2012 people come together in celebration of the London 2012 Oylmpic and Paralympic Games. The attempt is part of Lawk Naach, the largest Cultural Olympiad project in the [...]

(In)visible Dancing is a unique location-based performance intervention coming to Coventry to celebrate the start of the Olympic Football in the city. Each (In)visible Dancing event follows the same approach but is unique in its location, its artistic content and its timetable being tailored by Luca Silvestrini. It was originally [...]

Spill and The Voyage are the two Dancing for the Games events that are part of the opening weekend of the London 2012 Festival. The opening weekend takes place over four days in Birmingham and Coventry from 21 June 2012. Visitors can stay in the city centre for The Voyage, a late-night [...]

The Olympic Torch will be weaving its way around the West Midlands on 30 June, and there are a host of events and activities to greet it on its journey. The arrival of the Flame will start the Armed Forces Day celebrations at the National Memorial Arboretum and then make [...]

On 21 – 24 June, dancers and aerialists will join forces with a huge amateur choir, live musicians and over 140 local dance performers to transform Birmingham’s Victoria Square for The Voyage. “An enormous ship sails into the centre of Victoria Square, Birmingham, docking itself beside the city’s Town Hall. [...]