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Innovative mental health dance programme to help young people
A brand new partnership with HeadStart Newham Mental Health Prevention Programme and the return of the annual Dance Enterprise Ideas Summit and Ideas Fund are the first of a raft of new projects for 2017 announce… Continue Reading
'Let's turn the whole world around': inside Siobhan Davies' dance laboratory
Does the mind rule the body? Her interest in the body, clearly, does not begin and end on the stage. “It is always communicating,” she says, and this is the basis of her latest show, which opens at the Barbican in London this month. Material / rearranged / to …
Pina Bausch, Polunin and a hip-hop Alice in Wonderland: the best dance to watch in 2017
Pina Bausch, Polunin and a hip-hop Alice in Wonderland: the best dance to watch in 2017
17th National Dance Awards
The 17th National Dance Awards winners will be announced at a lunchtime ceremony to be held in Central London on Monday, 6th February 2017. The Dance Section of the Critics’ Circle has listed the full nomin… Continue Reading
Trinity Laban appoints new Dean of Dance
Previously the Director of Central School of Ballet, Sara Matthews joins the South East London based conservatoire in January... Continue Reading
Carlos Acosta's new company to tour the UK next year after opening at Sadler's Wells
Acosta Danza, based in Havana, Cuba, will become a Sadler’s Wells International Associate Company - alongside Rosas and Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch. Continue Reading
New film shows London as the City of Dance
Part of Mayor Sadiq Khan's #LondonisOpen campaign, a new short film features many of London's dance stars dancing in a range of styles & settings across the city.... Continue Reading
Addressing gender imbalance across the arts
Leading performing arts organisations - including Sadler's Wells, the Royal Ballet & Northern Ballet - have committed to address imbalances within their organisations through a programme organised by Tonic... Continue Reading
Gary Clarke wins UK Theatre award for Coal
The production won the Achievement in Dance category - beating other nominees Dance Consortium and Northern Ballet... Continue Reading
New Artistic Director, Mikah Smillie joins National Youth Ballet of Great Britain
The National Youth Ballet of Great Britain announce the appointment of its new Artistic Director, Mikah Smillie. Following the passing of the company’s Founding Director Jill Tookey. Continue Reading
Rambert Revealed 2016
There's still time to drop in on Rambert's South Bank home for a tour, talk, workshop or performance - and check in to a live stream of events all day on Tuesday (18 October) Continue Reading
Michael Flatley opens new Dance Academy in London
Classes are taking place in Barking, Chelsea, Fulham, Hammersmith, Islington, Kew, Morden, Staines, Wandsworth, Wimbleon and Woking - for all ages and abilities. A new term will start in January, but it is also … Continue Reading
Compass Commissions 2016
The Greenwich Dance & Trinity Laban Partnership is inviting UK-based dance artists to apply for the fourth year of its flagship commissioning scheme. The deadline is 21 October... Continue Reading
Lynn Wallis, Artistic Director of the Royal Academy of Dance, to step down
Lynn Wallis OBE will be stepping down from her role as Artistic Director of the Royal Academy of Dance at the end of 2016. For 22 years, Lynn has been the custodian of the RAD’s artistic integrity and cred… Continue Reading
Akram Khan on the making of his Giselle
A round up of interviews with Akram Khan, a video preview & reviews as English National Ballet's new production opens in Manchester... Continue Reading