We are thrilled to announce that we have been successful in a funding application to Shanly Foundation Group . Shanly Foundation aims to support causes that help individuals and benefit the local community, including support for young people from disadvantaged backgrounds, the homeless, those with mental health issues and people with physical disabilities, injury or life limiting illness. 

The donation will go towards helping to prevent elderly people from feeling isolated through the provision of our Travelling Tea Dance.

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Expanding on our very successful Easter Travelling Tea dance, Katie & Michaela will be leading interactive dance sessions in 5 assisted living settings around Woking providing a chance for residents to watch, interact and move. The Summer Travelling Tea dance will be a celebration of all Summer events, including the Jubilee, Wimbledon and Summer Holidays!

Our travelling tea dance aims to support the 5 ways to wellbeing by:

• By connecting with others
• Being active
• Take notice through the themes and dance styles
• Learning through new dance steps and styles
• Give – through shared memories support

We have a wonderful Summer programme planned and we can’t wait to share it with the residents of the locations we will be visiting – more information will be revealed soon!

This project has funded in collaboration with Shanley Foundation, Community Foundation for Surrey and Woking Borough Council as part of our ambition to improve dance provision for the over 65’s.

As part of our ambition to create a thriving local dance community we wanted to showcase some of the excellent holiday clubs that the schools on our Dance Surrey Directory will be running this Summer.

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Flipside Dance are running what looks to be an amazing week of dance from the 8th – 12th August that will see professional choreographers cover Jazz, Contemporary, Musical Theatre, Hip Hop and Acro to culminate in a performance at the end of the week. There are half days available for 4-6years and full days for 7-18years. Every participant gets a Summer school t-shirt and full access to the photos and footage from the week. Click on the link below to take you to Flipside’s Directory listing where you can email them directly.

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Cremona School of Dance have a week of Ballet, Musical Theatre and Jazz planned over the 1st – 5th August at Trinity Methodist Church in Horsell. There are sessions for pre-school to Years 7 + and will culminate in a performance on the Friday. Prices start at just £12 per day (preschoolers) and will focus on learning various styles of dance each day. The sessions are open to non students as well as students and will give the perfect opportunity for new students to try something new. Click on the link below to take you to Cremona’s Directory listing where you can email them directly.

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Dance Shack have a fun filled week of Street Dance, Hip Hop, Musical Theatre, Drama and MUCH more planned throughout the Summer at their venues. The West Byfleet venue will run 25th – 29th July and participants will work towards a performance on the last afternoon. Their holiday clubs are extremely popular and offer students and non students alike the chance to experience the fun side of dance and performing. Click on the link below to take you to Dance Shack’s Directory listing where you can email them directly.

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Dance Surrey Directory is a NEW refreshed platform-listing site designed to help the dance community increase their reach and for those seeking dance classes to find out what’s on offer in Surrey. With new search options this is a comprehensive tool which we hope will help promote dance classes and encourage new sign-up.

Are you a local dance school and would like to benefit from being showcased on our platform? You can find out more about the listing service and member benefits here

Thank you for visiting our Encounters page – here you will find lots of information about the day itself, what Dance Woking do, more information about the local groups performing, and a chance to sign up to our mailing list. Just click on the buttons below for more information.

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Amina Khayyam will be kicking off our Encounters event on Saturday 11th June with a wonderful workshop for all to attend! They will be leading dance skills workshops in Kathak and Bollywood Dance styles as well as performing a short piece. Come and check them out at 10.30 & 1pm in Victoria Place, Woking on Saturday 11th June.

Amina Khayyam Dance Company is a professional international touring dance–theatre company that uses the south Asian form Kathak as the core narrative in making new work in collaboration with the marginilised female voice, adding to it other media and forms such as theatre, live art, and technology. 

AKDC treats Kathak as a contemporary form and thereby transcends any ‘classical’ or ‘modern’ precepts to its approach. It believes the dance form is evolving with progressions demanded by the contemporary zeitgeist, in the same way it did so from the demands of the Mughals, the last time it took a major step forward. At its heart, Kathak is a storytelling form. With its rich history, it is uniquely placed and equipped to tell new and urgent stories of global importance. 

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For more information on our encounters event visit our events page.

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Dance Woking has been awarded a grant from the Arts Council’s Let’s Create Jubilee Fund by Surrey Community Foundation – ensuring that creativity plays an important role in local community celebrations for Her Majesty The Queen’s Platinum Jubilee. The Let’s Create Jubilee Fund will ensure that thousands of people from communities all across England will have the opportunity to take part in exciting creative events – all in celebration of the Platinum Jubilee.

Dance Woking would like to thank it’s supporters Arts Council England, Woking Borough Council, AKIKO Design, PPL PRS, Victoria Place and Community Foundation for Surrey