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Leeds Olympic Torch Celebrations mass sing and dance experience

Leeds Takes Part (c) Brian Slater

On Sunday 24 June at Temple Newsam park, Leeds is celebrating the visit of the Olympic Torch to the city in a sparkling event which is one of only four special city celebrations across the country. As we welcome the Torch to the stage, it promises to be an unforgettable evening with headline bands and [...]

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Yorkshire Businesses invited to join World Record Dance attempt

Wayne McGregor

Yorkshire Businesses are invited to join in a World Record Breaking Simultaneous Dance At 1pm on Friday 18 May 2012 – the day the Olympic Torch arrives in the UK – thousands of schoolchildren in the UK and across the world will join together to take part in a world-record breaking dance, created especially for [...]

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Fresh 2012 – the winners…

Fresh 2012 (c) Brian Slater

The judging panel of Fresh 2012, our showcase of youth dance companies from across the Yorkshire region, are delighted to announce the result of their deliberations. Nine groups performed at West Yorkshire Playhouse, Leeds, on Sat 17 Mar, competing for a performance slot at Youth Dance England’s U.Dance 2012, a three day event at The [...]

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Yorkshire Dance named Waitrose Good Cause of the Month

Waitrose Community Matters

Yorkshire Dance is very pleased to announce that Mind the Step, our weekly creative dance class for adults with learning disabilities, is one of Waitrose Leeds’ Good Causes of the Month for March 2012. Shoppers at the Meanwood branch in Leeds are handed a green token at the checkout, and given the opportunity to drop [...]

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Half-term project helps ‘hard-to-reach’ young people develop film skills

East Feast at Yorkshire Dance, Feb 2012

This half-term, Young people from the Seacroft area of Leeds are developing their filmmaking skills as they take part in a three-day film challenge at Yorkshire Dance and produce a short movie about hip-hop dancing. The teenagers are all members of East Feast, an initiative set up in east Leeds which enables ‘hard-to-reach’ young people [...]

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Yorkshire Dance partnership with Protein

Luca Silvestrini's Protein

Yorkshire Dance is proud to announce a new association with Luca Silvestrini’s Protein. As a Yorkshire Dance Partner, Protein will be developing a series of exciting new performance projects in Leeds and the county of Yorkshire over the next few years. The partnership is the culmination of a decade long relationship with Protein which began [...]

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Big Dance 2012 Handbook is available now

Big Dance 2012

The Big Dance 2012 Handbook is out now! Join us and get involved in the UK’s biggest ever celebration of dance. Yorkshire Dance is part of the Big Dance Hub for Yorkshire, planning events between 18th May – 9th September 2012 to give everyone the opportunity to get dancing.

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Volunteers needed

Fresh 2012

Yorkshire Dance is currently recruiting volunteers for Fresh 2012, a showcase of the best youth dance from across Yorkshire. Fresh 2012 will take place on 17th March at West Yorkshire Playhouse. For more information log on to: www.yorkshiredance.com/youth/fresh-2012/ We are looking for motivated and enthusiastic volunteers aged 18+ to help us with a variety of [...]

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Candoco & Yorkshire Dance Weekender, Nov 2011

Candoco Dance Company (c) Hugo Glendinning

Join us for a weekend with Candoco Dance Company and Yorkshire Dance for GCSE dance teachers and all dance practitioners and students Sat 5 Nov, 11.00am – 5.00pm INSET day for GCSE dance teachers Sun 6 Nov Artist Development Day, 11.00am – 5.00pm & Celebration of the 3-year Yorkshire Dance / Candoco Moving Bodies project, [...]

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Applications invited for residencies at Yorkshire Dance, spring 2012

Residencies at Yorkshire Dance

Responsive Residencies at Yorkshire Dance Yorkshire Dance offers residencies to artists and companies throughout the year, with flexible access to the studio, together with use of equipment, support and feedback. Yorkshire Dance are currently looking for artists to be in residence during Spring 2012 (Jan – Apr). Application forms and more information can now be [...]

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