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Dancing
Dancing is an art form that generally refers to movement of the body, usually rhythmic and to music,[1] used as a form of expression, social interaction or presented in a spiritual or performance setting.
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Dance Help

Dancehelp.com is a journal of dance information and inspiration to accompany students, performers, and choreographers in their dance endeavors. It is a compilation of dance articles, dance tips, dance news, dance forums, dance listings and educational information for the aspiring and professional dancer.

 

Blast Dance Tips and Tools

Watch dance moves on your computer or download them to your mobile! By following these short dance clips, you will soon be moving and grooving like a pro.

 

LEARN TO BREAKDANCE: THE WORM

This is a lesson from the totally dope, amazingly random, stupendously good TOP 20 BREAKDANCE MOVES DVD

 

 
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Foundation for Community Dance

This factsheet is a great starting point, directing you to various contacts and organisations at local, regional and national level that focus on disabled arts and may include dance in their programme.

 

Dance Club Directory

Directory of dance clubs in for young people in Wales. Clubs can be searched by region or by disability.

 

Norfolk Dance: Dance Disability

Disabled individuals are welcome to participate in integrated dance classes. Specific classes are also run for adults with learning disabilities.

 

 
Listings - Websites
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Anjali Dance Company

Anjali Dance Company is a unique professional contemporary dance company. All of the company’s dancers have learning disabilities. As well as producing tours and performances the company undertakes outreach work and strives to show that disability does not have to be a barrier to creativity.

 

Sign Dance

Common Ground have created a new and unique art form through the fusion and integration of sign language, dance and physical theatre.

 

Critical Dance

Critical Dance forum and online ballet-dance magazine an international non-profit entity founded for the purpose of promoting and supporting the dance arts.

 

danceworks

Danceworks also works strategically within the UK to support and promote national and international dance to small, middle and large-scale venues by extending the South Yorkshire model as a basis of development for audiences and best practice.

 

Guardians of Doubt

Established to investigate different approaches to dance, unencumbered by form, not bound by disciplines or criteria, GoD believes in the freedom of thought and movement.

 

Royal Academy of Dance

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 Exchange

dx creates opportunities for people from all walks of life to engage with dance. Classes include Bollywood Banghra, capoeira, musical dance, salsa, ballet, break, club jazz, flamenco, tap, urban fusion and pilates.

 

Dance Umbrella

Dance Umbrella celebrates and champions contemporary dance. It pushes the boundaries of innovation and enriches the enjoyment and experience of contemporary dance for its audiences.London's International Festival of Contemporary Dance.

 

X Factor Dance Company

The X Factor Dance Company, under the directorship of Alan Greig, has achieved national recognition for its Education Work. Alan has created over 40 works for youth and community groups throughout the UK, including Northern School of Contemporary Dance, Dance Base, London Youth Project and Liverpool Institute of Performing Arts.

 

Freshmess

Founded in 1996 by artistic director Allan Irvine and fellow dancer Wallace Sulley, Freshmess perform and teach a unique blend of contemporary dance and hip hop. The movements Freshmess perform and teach are derived from the original hip hop styles, such as Toprock, Uprock, Bboying, Lockin’ and the many Poppin’ styles.

 

Scottish Dance Theatre

SDT creates and tours new dance theatre by both leading and emerging international choreographers, as well as work by our own Artistic Director Janet Smith, one of the most respected and established Artistic Directors in Britain today.

 

Scottish Ballet

Scottish Ballet is Scotland’s national dance Company. The Company performs across Scotland, the UK and abroad, with strong classical technique at the root of all of its work.

 

Virtual Motion Dance Company

The Company provide the following: Mentoring service for graduate dance students; Inset teacher training; Education workshops from primary to degree level; Community Dance programmes; Touring of professional performances.

 

South East Dance

The mission of South East Dance is to develop more and better dance, for communities, screen and performance through innovative, trailblazing and experimental programmes. We are passionate about dance and excellence and creativity is at the heart of all our work.

 

Dance4

We are an internationally recognised, experimental dance organisation. A unique voice in the UK dance sector, our work supports artists and practitioners who are interested in the development of dance within performance and learning environments.

 

Dance South West

Dance South West is the regional strategic agency for dance. We bring together a network of partners to enable people in the South West to make, watch and take part in dance.

 

The Fathom Project

The FATHoM project is a collective of artists specialising in the forms of movement, theatre, film and music, based in Newcastle upon Tyne.

 

Ballet Lorent

balletLORENT has a long history of inclusivity in its work - right from its inception there has been an integration of community performers choreographed alongside professional dancers.

 

Falling Cat

Falling Cat is a resident dance company based at Dance City, the national dance agency for the northern region and is artistically driven by choreographer Amanda Drago.