Dancing for the Games

Over the weekend, the 15th Annual Artsfest took place across Birmingham City Centre. Dancing for the Games hosted the Dance and Performance Marquee, programmed by DanceXchange. We presented a varied programme of both performances and dance workshops, open to all. With performances from the Squirm Dance Company, Irish in Birmingham, [...]

Yesterday saw the end of the Cultural Olympiad, a four year programme that saw over 2.7 million attendances at events and activities in the West Midlands. Watch the film below to relive highlights from the programme or catch up on just a small portion of the amazing activity linked to [...]

Dancing for the Games is once again hosting the Dance and Performance Marquee at this year’s Artsfest, this Saturday and Sunday the 8th and 9th September. There will be chances to join in with workshops, watch short performances, and find out about anything and everything about dance in the West [...]

Dance Connected have released a video called How We Got Staffordshire Moving – A Get Dancing Documentary showcasing their Get Dancing project.

Mandala is a free, outdoor spectacular set to illuminate Birmingham Town Hall, marking the final weekend of the London 2012 Festival, 7-9 September. British Asian dance and music and spectacular 3D light projections will liven up Birmingham’s Chamberlain Square on Friday 7 September. It will provide a dramatic climax to the London [...]

You can now watch the complete 30-minute film of all 10 dances from Spill – A Playground of Dance on The Space. The film captures the show by DanceXchange and choreographed by Shaun Parker, which has been touring playgrounds across the West Midlands and beyond. “Combining quirky, dynamic dance with [...]

Here is a great video of Freefall Dance Company performing before their appearance at We Dance – a festival of dance. The We Dance Festival was run by Mencap to involve people with a learning disability in the Cultural Olympiad. This film is part of the Dance for Camera films, [...]

The Lawk Naach finale event brought over 2,000 people from across the West Midlands to dance together with the Dance Sansaar performers. Having engaged well over 24,000 people directly in dance discovery workshops, the Lawk Naach project has enabled people from all backgrounds to access Punjabi culture through Bhangra and [...]

TooMortal is a new work by Shobana Jeyasingh Dance Company which will be performed in a free event at St Swithun’s Church, Worcester on 19-21 July, as part of a tour that takes in Venice, London and Stockholm. Dancefest, the dance development organisation for Herefordshire and Worcestershire, has been chosen to host a performance [...]