A creative class for ages 5 to 7 fusing Pop music to get your body moving! We use funky Street with a twist of other Dance styles such as Jazz.
During the term the group will work on a dance to perform as part of an informal sharing for parents at the end of term.
Summer term is now open for booking! Classes start on Saturday 20 April and run until Saturday 6 July 2024.
Parents and Tots is a fun movement session to build your little one’s confidence to crawl, move, toddle and dance in a safe environment. This session is for families with babies and young children aged 0-4 (older siblings and non-crawlers are very welcome).
In each class the dance tutors lead the group through playful movement activities using a variety of props, music and obstacles to stimulate the senses. Parents and Tots is a great place to meet other young families, share ideas, experiences and memories together.
Would you like to volunteer as part of a big art event in the city involving dancing through the streets of Leeds?
TEMPO are a performance group for ages 12-16 based at Yorkshire Dance, learning streetdance and breakdance skills to take out onto the streets and stages of Yorkshire.
All TEMPO members receive a free t-shirt and across the term work on a dance to perform as part of an informal sharing for parents as well as additional opportunities to perform at venues across Leeds and West Yorkshire. In 2023 TEMPO performed at Youth Dance Showcase FRESH as well as in Trinity Shopping Centre.
40/40 is an inspiring, insightful and moving celebration of Katherina Radeva’s 40 years as a woman, a migrant and an artist. Claiming space on a dance floor for one, she writes stories of her past, present and future, in speech, in electrical tape and in movement.
From the little girl dancing at her parents’ student parties, to the teenage rhythm gymnast who was body-shamed, to the creative who refuses to be categorised we see a choreography of all the joys and sorrows of 40 years.
Being different is a complicated business. It can be exciting, distressing, temporary, permanent, liberating, dangerous, painful, a cause for celebration. It’s about bodies and language, memories and labels, perceptions and assumptions, acceptance and resistance.
Join DAR, a queer, neurodivergent, curious, middle-aged Talking Heads fanatic, to consider some tricky questions around the subjects of difference, identity, positioning, labelling and belonging.
What does it feel like to perform your ageing body? How are women’s bodies read as they age? What is the relationship between older performer and audience? Why be seen?
In this panel talk Gillian Dyson is joined by Funmi Adewole Elliott and Susan Kempster as they ponder the queering of the body through the ageing process and ask how we redefine our femininity as expectations of women shift in age.
What makes us human?
How does sound connect us?
What keeps us going?
And what happens when we stop?
Join Kyra Norman for a practical workshop inspired by her latest work, Going, Going, made in collaboration with composer Barnaby Taylor, and a community of dancers aged 20 – 70 from Cornwall.
How To Change The World By Doing Nothing explores our experience and understanding of time, how time is spent, who controls it, and how we would spend it if we could choose. It explores radical notions of rest, doing less and ‘wasting time’.
Co-created by Fevered Sleep and Yorkshire Dance’s Company of People, How To Change The World By Doing Nothing is a durational performance installation bringing together an intergenerational community from Leeds.
This work is part of Fevered Sleep’s ongoing research and development process for their new show.
Join Funmi Adewole Elliott for a workshop exploring the sensation of movement, playfulness, interaction and performance. In this session Funmi will draw on participants’ everyday experiences of social dancing and telling stories. She will start by teaching a simple routine based on old and new African urban dances: Fuji and Juju, Afrobeats, as well as Salsa and Merengue.
Open to all levels of experience and ages. This is an energetic workshop, but participants are welcome to take a break, sit and watch before re-joining.