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Akademi (formerly known as Academy of Indian Dance) is a pioneering organisation that works to encourage excellence in the practice of South Asian dance in Britain. Founded in 1979, Akademi aims to place South Asian dance as an important force within British art, society and education.
Kathak/Contemporary Dance Company.
Since 2005, the organisation has participated in several UNESCO’s World Cultural Heritage Carnivals in Latin America creating a unique transatlantic artistic collaboration. Currently, the organisation has an interdisciplinary team of 35 Top Latin American artists based in the UK and Latin America to create the next production Amazonas Spectacular (inspired in the world’s greatest river and rainforest). The plan is to work in partnership with colleges, community groups, local people, charitable organisations such us Rainforest Concert, Survival International and and professional artists to take this project to the widest possible audience.
Apsara arts provides regular classes & workshops in Bollywood, Bhangra, Kathak & Indian folk dances to ages ages and abilities.
Developing, Promoting and investing in the arts in England
artsdepot is the only professional arts venue in the London Borough of Barnet and is committed to providing a diverse range of high quality visual and performance arts for everyone.
Hip-Hop and Contemporary company established in 2001 by Choreographer and Artistic Director, Tony Adigun.
The birthplace of Jerry Springer the Opera and the first London venue to present Punchdrunk, BAC nurtures talented emerging artists and is renowned for making some of the most cutting-edge new work in the UK.
Balletboyz (formerly known as George Piper Dances), founded in 2001 by Michael Nunn and William Trevitt, has made a dramatic mark on the British dance scene. It has thrilled audiences and dance critics alike with its exhilarating mix of award winning repertoire, performance style and high artistic standards.
The Barbican is Europe's largest multi-arts and conference venue presenting a diverse range of art, music, theatre, dance, film and education events. It is also home to the London Symphony Orchestra
The Big Lottery Fund is the largest distributor of Lottery money to good causes.
Dance Vocational College
International festival of hip hop dance theatre
British Association of American Square Dance Clubs : Home of Square Dancing in the United Kingdom
Big Dance is working with the British Council’s Connecting Classrooms programme to develop and promote the Big Dance Schools Pledge to schools around the world.
Connecting Classrooms builds lasting partnerships between schools in the UK and others around the world with the aim of creating a safer and more connected world for the future. For more information on Connecting Classrooms, click the links above.
C-12 Dance Theatre is a revolutionary dance company that creates unique, diverse and original material through a fusion of dance techniques and theatre.
International Association of Square Dance Callers
Candoco Dance Company is the contemporary dance company of disabled and non-disabled dancers.
Capital Age Festival (CAF) is London's largest and liveliest arts festival organised by, for and with older people.
Europe´s Largest Latin American Festival in Europe
CCPR is the CCPR is the national alliance of 315 governing and representative bodies of sport and recreation. These include over 30 national organisations aimed at promoting movement and dance throughout the UK.
Healthy kids, healthy family, healthy recipes and exercise tips.
Eat well, move more, live longer
For over 25 years Chisenhale Dance Space has been a centre for research and development in movement arts and independent dance.
Since Corrientes opened its doors in the year 2000, its founders, Mina and Giraldo have developed a club which captures the atmosphere of traditional milongas mixed with more avant garde tango tendencies from Buenos Aires. The club has been visited by important tango artists: musicians, dancers and teachers. such as the casts of TangoXDos and Tango Pasion, Miguel and Osvaldo Zotto, Lorena Ermocida, Pablo Veron, Mora Godoy, Natalia Games and Gabriel Angio and many other great artists from Nuevo tango and traditional tango including several milongueros from 'La Guardia Vieja'.The main thrust of Corrientes Social Club is to educate and delight UK audiences on the wonders of tango dance from Argentina. It has a large number of professionally trained teachers (in house and guests) and practitioners keen to promote, perform and teach tango.The club produces an informative monthly programme and is constituted as a members club
CultureLine is a group of 10 museums and galleries which can be found along the length of the London Overground East London extension. The new line runs from Dalston Junction in North-East London to West Croydon in the South-East. The Horniman Museum is one of CultureLine's key partners and is proud to be hosting a Big Dance event this year - African Dance Performance with Nzinga Dance on 4th July at 3pm
dance4life empowers young people to take action in pushing back HIV and AIDS. It's a worldwide movement which operates across Europe, Asia, America and Africa.
The Dance Champions Group has been brought together at the request of the Secretary of State for Health, with the aim of encouraging 100,000 new adults to take up dance as a regular activity.
Find out what dance is on TV each week with these useful listings.
The home of all things dance. Learn new dance styles from top choreographers, watch and share your favourite dance videos, hear the latest dance buzz.
As the national voice for dance, Dance UK advocates and lobbies to promote the importance and needs of dance. It is a membership organization that works to create a diverse, dynamic and healthy future for dance. By working with and on behalf of the dance sector, Dance UK aims to promote sustainable, longer dance careers and to improve the conditions in which dance is created, performed and experienced.
Bringing new dance to London. Dance Umbrella is one of the world’s most exciting programmers of new dance.
Dance United delivers work that is tough, tightly-focused and highly disciplined. No hiding places, no short-cuts, no excuses. We have seen it work with young offenders, street children in Ethiopia, across the divide in Berlin and Northern Ireland. We reach the hard to reach.
Dance news & classes, dance events, free dance videos and dance supplies.
danceaid is an organisation that aims to unite dance with charity. They help individual dancers and dance schools run events to raise money to help orphaned, poor and exploited children around the world.
A fashion blog dedicated to dancers. Dancers are style leaders, pioneering new trends from the muted, understated layering of ballet rehearsal wear to saturated, high-gloss ghetto frivolity of Hip Hop street wear. This blog will keep you up-to-date with the what real dancers are really wearing to castings, rehearsals, film shoots, performances and out and about on the streets of the capital and beyond. inspiration. aspiration. dancerstyle.co.uk
Dancing in the UK is a magazine that covers all dance styles with reviews, previews, interviews and much more. Visit our website to view the latest magazine for FREE. We also have listings of 900+ dance schools/colleges plus events, workshops, dance competitions etc. Contact us to get a free dance school listing.
Dare2Dance is a ground-breaking development programme that increases the quality and quantity of urban dance provision for young women aged 14-22.
Aiming to improve the quality of life for all through cultural and sporting activities, to support the pursuit of excellence and to champion the tourism, creative and leisure industries
Diabetes UK is the largest organisation in the UK working for people with diabetes, funding research, campaigning and helping people live with the condition.
DV8 Physical Theatre was formed in 1986 and has been led since its inception by Lloyd Newson. The company has produced 16 highly acclaimed dance pieces, which have toured internationally, and four award-winning films for television.
East London Dance works to develop a dynamic, diverse and inclusive dance culture for communities and artists across, and beyond, East London. East London hub for Big Dance 2010
Festival celebrating Greek music and performing arts.
Element Dance Company - Urban Latin Dance formed by Ella Mesma.
The administrative body for Amateur competitive dancers in England - covering Ballroom, Latin, Sequence & Freestyle.
The English Folk Dance and Song Society has, for over a hundred years, worked to record, develop and promote the folk music, dance, song and traditions of our country.
West London hub for Big Dance 2010
Epic Arts is a disability arts charity established in 2001. We organise and run visual art, drama, dance and music projects for people with disabilities in the UK, Cambodia and other international locations. Our projects celebrate the creative potential of those with whom we work, by offering new skills and giving each participant an outlet for their creative expression. Epic Arts works with the philosophy that Every Person Counts (EPiC).
La Escuela de Baile, the largest flamenco school in the UK. We are based in Central London. Escuela de Baile provides the opportunity to study flamenco dance throughout the year at all levels, from Beginners to Professional. As well as its regular classes Escuela de Baile runs intensive dance courses, with internationally renowned performers visiting from Spain to teach in London and at the annual summer school in Jerez de la Frontera, Spain, deep in the heartland of flamenco.
EMDP is the lead National Governing Body (NGB) for exercise, movement and dance. It is a not for profit organisation dedicated to the development of exercise, movement and dance provision throughout England and the UK.
EXTEND provides exercise to music for the over 60's and less able of all ages. Classes are held across the country, providing a wide range of classes from the more traditional gentle keep fit through to cardiac, pulmonary and stroke rehabilitation. Most of our teachers work in residential homes or day centres but there are over 200 teachers who hold open community classes.
Flamenco Con Gusto is a flamenco dance academy running friendly and dynamic classes in different locations throughout London & Surrey. Classes are taught in Spanish and in English and include live guitar accompaniment. Classes are at various levels with advanced students forming a performance group with regular appearances at Festivals and Spanish-theme events throughout the year.
Belly Dance teacher and performer
Foundation for Community Dance is the professional organisation for anyone involved in creating opportunities for people to experience and participate in dance
Futunity UK Academy of Sport and Dance
Graduate Fashion Week launched in 1991 as a forum to showcase the very best BA graduate fashion design talent.
The website for the Mayor of London and the London Assembly
Greenwich+Docklands International Festival 09 provided a “tour de force” showcase of UK and international outdoor arts at their very best. Estimated audiences of 50,000 were swept up in the GDIF experience, whilst a new thematic approach featuring a series of outstanding new commissions and UK premieres helped strengthen the Festival’s increasingly distinctive personality.
Greenwich Dance has developed both a local and international reputation as a centre of excellence and innovation. In addition to providing a space for some of the UK’s finest dance artists to make and perform their work, it delivers a year round programme of activities including courses, classes, performances and events for both dedicated dance lovers and the wider public.
GLL manage seventy public leisure centres including swimming pools and gyms within London and the M25 area. GLL are committed to the provision of leisure and fitness facilities at affordable prices.
Your Team, Your Quins.
Henri Oguike Dance Company is a contemporary dance company based in London and led by gifted Nigerian-Welsh choreographer Henri Oguike.
Historic Royal Palaces is an independent charity that looks after the Tower of London, Hampton Court Palace, the Banqueting House, Kensington Palace and Kew Palace.
Hot Salsa promotes all Latin Dances across North London
An International dynamic Flamenco Dance school, based in Central London.
Impact Dance began in 1995 from a single street dance class Xpress Yo'self created by its current Artistic Director Hakeem Onibudo. From there it has grown to one of the most successful London based Hip Hop Theatre Companies as well as a leading brand in bringing Street Dance to schools all around The UK.
Established in 2002, IDMN is a network and forum for existing and new independent dance managers – supporting, advocating and developing an independent dance infrastructure for the industry; raising awareness of the role/work of independent managers; providing training, education and services that increase the extent, efficacy & impact of independent dance management; acting as a focal point for info & events.
The Imperial Society of Teachers of Dancing is the world's leading dance examinations board. Formed in 1904 it is today a registered educational charity and is the only organisation that covers the full spectrum of dance examinations on a truly global scale.
Jacksons Lane is one of London's leading venues, supporting and producing new circus and visual theatre.
Jeanefer Jean-Charles is fast establishing herself as a national figure. In 2006 she choreographed the world record-breaking Big Dance for BBC TV in partnership with the Arts Council and the Mayor’s office.
Jonzi D Productions is the UK’s leading Hip Hop theatre company. Our Artistic Director is the highly charismatic and irrepressible Jonzi D , one of the most recognised faces of Hip Hop culture in the UK.
Established in 1978, Karolinka is an internationally acclaimed Polish Folk Song and Dance Company, formed of three groups and over 80 performing individuals. Constitutionally, it is an amateur group aiming to promote and cultivate Polish cultural tradition, with a high emphasis on authenticity.
Laban is one of the world’s finest centres for the training of professional contemporary dance artists. It is a creative and cosmopolitan community of performers, choreographers, teachers and researchers from around the globe.
Charity running classes, after school clubs and courses in Motif Notation.
Leaving a lasting legacy from London 2012 in communities throughout the UK
We are a group of companies specialising in delivery and project management. Our work spans three areas:
Grassroots sports and physical activity, Community and employee engagement and On-line event registration and fundraising tools
Official site of the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games.
London Councils is committed to fighting for more resources for the capital and getting the best possible deal for London’s 33 local authorities.
Discover London libraries, whether public, academic or specialist collections, which allow some form of public access.
Find all the London Salsa clubs, classes and events and more! Whether a beginner, advanced salsero, professional or band; Sign Up Now for special offers and the latest news in one of the fastest growing healthy activities in the UK.
London Youth Dance work to support and develop youth dance activity within London working alongside Connect, (the Sadler's Wells Creative Learning team), londondance.com (also a Sadler's Wells project) and in close partnership with Youth Dance England and key regional dance development agencies. London Youth Dance also edit the Youth Zone on londondance.com offering information on dance workshops, performances, youth groups, vocational training and projects to get involved with.
London focused dance website including news, reviews, features and more.
Hailed by the Independent on Sunday as 'British dance's true iconoclast', Michael Clark creates work that combines his classical fluency with a twisted contemporary sensibility that embraces embarrassment, doubt, and fear, as well as grace, virtue and control.
Under the joint artistic direction of Anaïs Bouts, Sara Lindström and Ida Uvaas, MIKS is a vehicle for artists to create work collectively, challenging conventional ideas about ownership and style in theatre and choreography. Through a collaborative approach, MIKS aim to explore the edges of performance making by delivering provocative, risk-taking and entertaining performances.
Arts Centre and Theatre.
Momentum started as a pilot 2 year project running from 2006 to 2008. Momentum aims to promote and develop dance across West London's vibrant and varied dance scene, encompassing Classical Indian, Bollywood, Irish Folk, Ballet, Contemporary, Urban Street and other styles, embracing a network of schools, academies, community and youth groups, professional artists and venues.
Move It is the dance event taking Britain by storm! The show kicks off on the 11th March at London's OIympia for an amazing four day celebration of dance in all its forms.
African Contemporary Dance Company Movement Angol.
Leading strategically, the MLA promotes best practice in museums, libraries and archives, to inspire innovative, integrated and sustainable services for all.
Represents over 200,000 musical copyrights, in a variety of genres from 1925 to present day.
Your health, your choices. Since its launch in 1948, the NHS has grown to become the world’s largest publicly funded health service. It is also one of the most efficient, most egalitarian and most comprehensive.
Victoria Park is transformed into a pleasure garden for the 21st Century. Once again the partnership of Remarkable Productions and the London Borough of Tower Hamlets bring you a free festival weekend packed full of amazing activities for people of all ages.
Supporting interdisciplinary work.
Pride London aims to promote equality and diversity through all of its campaigns. The two week Pride festival uses theatre, music, debate, art and entertainment to raise awareness of discrimination and the issues and difficulties affecting the lives of LGBT people around the world.
Creating and performing dance connected with everyday life. Artistic Director, Luca Silvestrini.
Rambert Dance Company is Britain's flagship contemporary dance company. Under the artistic direction of Mark Baldwin it tours throughout the UK and overseas, producing an unrivalled quantity of new work on the large-scale.
Equipment, software and products for theatre, film, television and architectural environments.
The International Association of Round Dance Teachers
The Royal Academy of Dance promotes knowledge, understanding and practice of dance internationally. We seek to accomplish our mission through promoting dance, educating and training students and teachers and providing examinations to reward achievement.
Dance and Music venue in Covent Garden.
The Royal Scottish Country Dance Society is for anyone interested in traditional Scottish country dancing and music.
London's dance house and North London hub for Big Dance 2010
Salsa Dance classes and performances.
Serrano Evans Partnership is a multidisciplinary Architectural, Design and Performance practice that questions and explores the interfaces between disciplines and functions, developing a new language for each event, specific to subject and place.
They create contemporary and innovative proposals using motion and emotion in the design and execution of our projects: performed and built.
Shape is a disability-led arts organisation working to improve access to culture for disabled people. We develop opportunities for disabled artists, we train cultural institutions to be more open to disabled people, and we run participatory arts and development programmes.
Founded in 1988 and funded by Arts Council England, Shobana Jeyasingh Dance Company has produced imaginative, innovative and critically acclaimed work which has given cultural diversity a unique spin, offering insights into the current and critical agendas of national identity and social integration.
Simon Rich and Nicole Beckey are 10 times modern jive champions who perform and teach across the UK.
One of the UK's leading independent dance companies Siobhan Davies Dance develops and presents the distinctive choreographic voice of its founder and director. South London hub for Big Dance 2010
Find our work inside and outside the Royal Festival Hall, the Hayward Gallery, the Queen Elizabeth Hall. Explore our 21 acre site and enjoy our shops, restaurants and bars.
Sport England is focused on the creation of a world-leading community sport system.
Springs Dance Company travels throughout the UK and internationally performing and teaching work that is dynamic, entertaining and challenging
A Bharatanatyam training and performance Company.
Status Dance Group
Dance Vocational College
StreetDance is not only the UK's first Street Dance movie, it is also the UK's first 3D movie. Set in London and featuring some of Britain's top dance talent, it tells the story of a street dance crew who, in a bid to win the UK Street Dance Championships, are forced to join forces with a group of classical dancers causing sparks to fly and passions to rise...
For over 15 years Street Dance XXL has been at the forefront of Street Dance in the UK producing innovative entertainment formats for commercial and corporate events thus providing entertaining dance experiences for an ever growing audience and showcasing dancers at the same time. Street Dance XXL is a vibrant Dance, Entertainment and Production Company with years of experience and success behind them, attracting commercial partners Sony Pictures, Universal Pictures and Vertigo Films using our events to promote their blockbuster movies, major media companies such as Kiss FM, The Stage newspaper and Royal Academy of Dance.
Life's for Sharing.
Directed by award-winning Zimbabwean-born choreographer and composer Bawren Tavaziva.
The Aldridge Foundation uses entrepreneurship as a catalyst for young people to create lasting social change for them and their communities.
ADAD is a national organisation that supports the practice and appreciation of dance of the African Diaspora. Making dance of the African Diaspora to visible and valued as part of the British cultural experience.
Cheaper insurance for dance artists and teachers
The Iberian Folk Dancers, formerly ‘The Iberian Folk Dance & Music Society’, began about 20 years ago. It was started by Lucille Armstrong who travelled through Spain and Portugal, collecting the regional dances. She wrote down the music, learnt the dances, sang the songs, sketched the costumes. This was before the Spanish Civil War. In England she taught the dances, made the costumes, taught the songs to guitarists . The present group of 18 continues to practice the dances and have also learnt folk dances of Latin America.
Located in the heart of London, The Place is the UK’s premier centre for contemporary dance. What makes The Place distinctive is the unparalleled range of activity we undertake and the unique opportunities created by having so much to offer under one roof.
Founded in 1908 by Sir Charles Wyndham, the Society of London Theatre (SOLT) is the trade association that represents the producers, theatre owners and managers of the major commercial and grant-aided theatres in central London. Today the Society combines its long-standing roles in such areas as industrial relations and legal advice for members with a campaigning role for the industry, together with a wide range of audience-development programmes to promote theatre-going.
Romance D'Carnaval A moving journey into the heart of tango. Myriam Ojeda Patiño and Tiempo de Tango are proud to present Romance D'Carnaval, a sensual story of tango, carnival and passion. Set against the tumultuous backdrop of Buenos Aires from the 1930's to present day, the production is performed by an exceptional collaboration from the UK's only Latin American dance company. A raw, sensual, authentic tango experience. “ passion, drama, melancholy beauty and sentimentality ......The Guardian
Dance Vocational College
With over 23,000 students from 120 countries worldwide, UEL is one of the UK’s most diverse and fastest growing universities.
UP Projects curate and produce arts projects and events outside the traditional gallery and museum spaces and often in the public realm.
Vocational Dance Training
Voluntary Arts aims to promote participation in the voluntary arts and crafts across the UK and Republic of Ireland. Voluntary Arts is keen to encourage members of voluntary arts organisations to make the most of the opportunities to participate in the Cultural Olympiad and has appointed a Once in a Lifetime project officer to help to coordinate the voluntary arts sector's involvement.
Renowned for its visionary approach to developing innovative work, Wayne McGregor | Random Dance has redrawn the boundaries for new choreography and thrust the exploration of its dancers’ physical capabilities to an extreme and refreshing frontier. Wayne McGregor, who is also the Resident Choreographer of The Royal Ballet, is committed to the exploration of science and new technologies in performance and learning.
Well London is an exciting, 3-year project that will work with local people to transform their health.
Youth Dance England is the national organisation that champions and promotes dance for children and young people. We work to ensure that dance is available to all, both in and out of school settings.
