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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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. 

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

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

Dance Woking are thrilled to be offering a 4 week holiday program over the Summer and in order to facilitate this we are currently recruiting for a Summer Outreach team.

We are recruiting one Holiday Club & Dance Lead and two Holiday Club Assistants to join our team and help us deliver a fun and dynamic Summer holiday provision.

Dance Woking’s Hunky Dory Summer Club is suitable for children in Primary School Year 4 to Year 6. The club will provide a fun and safe environment for all abilities and whilst there will be dance each day, the focus is on us delivering a fun, active and creative week for all participants!

Applicants must be available Mon to Thurs from Mon 25th July to Thurs 18th August (Excluding, Fri, Sat, Sun). Training will be provided on week commencing 18th July (date tbc)*. *Training will be a mix of accredited online courses (safeguarding, food safety – if needed), and in person training & planning to ensure the smooth delivery of the program.

Job descriptions can be found on our Opportunities page to register your interest please email Ellie Dowling and she will forward you a job specification & criteria. The assistant role does not require dance experience.

We will prioritise applicants who can commit to the 4-weeks required; however if you are only available for at least 2-weeks or more please still apply indicating the dates you can do. Applications close on 21 June at 5pm; interviews w/c 27th June.

Dance Woking are thrilled to announce we have been successful in our bid to provide holiday provision during the Summer holidays for young residents of Woking and this time we’ll be hosting at 2 seperate venues in Woking over 4 weeks, meaning we’ll be able to engage with more young people in our community.

The funding, provided by Club4, will enable us to host our popular Hunky Dory Holiday Club this Summer. The holiday club will be held at 2 separate venues over the first 4 weeks of the Summer holidays and will be facilitated by our highly experienced team and provide participants with a full day of dance, arts & crafts, fun and a hot meal every day too! We are excited to be hosting our holiday club at The Maybury Centre & Lakeview Community Centre.

The Summer Club is suitable for children in Primary School Year 4 to Year 6. The club will provide a fun and safe environment for all abilities and whilst there will be dance each day, the focus is on us providing a fun, active and creative week for all participants!

At Dance Woking we believe in creating active and engaging opportunities to inspire the younger generation. Our Hunky Dory Summer Club aims to promote health and well being whilst also allowing children to find new ways of expressing themselves. Our highly qualified and experienced team will lead a range of creative activities including daily dance sessions and arts and crafts activities.

The Summer Holiday club programme is shaping up to be full of amazing activities and bookings will open on Wednesday 1st June! If you would like more information on the holiday club please click the button below

Club4 is Surrey County Council’s (SCC’s) response to the government’s Holiday Activities and Food initiative, designed to provide healthy meals, physical activity and enrichment opportunities to children and young people in receipt of free school meals during longer holidays. Coordinated by Active Surrey for SCC, free places will be provided during the Easter, Summer and Christmas 2022 holidays.  

The Jubilee weekend will see Dance Woking partner with Stanwell Events group to host a community party in the park to celebrate the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee.

Held on the 4th June, this special event held on Long Lane Recreation Ground will see Dance Woking facilitate 2 dance workshops throughout the day, a community flashmob performance with the Youth Club, local community performances and bring professional companies Folk Dance Remixed and MCDC (Michaela Cisarikova Dance Company) to perform for the local residents to enjoy.

Dance Woking Outreach team have been working with the Stanwell Youth Project over the last 6 weeks to device a community performance piece and this will be performed on the day at 2pm.

MCDC will perform Fish Out of Water which is a fresh, family-friendly outdoor dance performance using hip hop, interactive sculptures & responsive music to explore themes of belonging, otherness & migrancy. 

Follow the dancers as they find themselves in a strange new place and help them overcome bizarre, colourful obstacles. By the end of the show, you can help them build a home somewhere new and show them that whatever challenges we face, we are stronger together.

Fish Out of Water is the latest touring performance from MCDC Michaela Cisarikova Dance Company, known for bold visuals and her signature hip hop and contemporary dance style. Fish Out of Water is Co-commissioned by Applause and The Marlowe, with support of SELEP Ltd as a part of Catalyst For Culture and supported by Arts Council England.

Performances will be at 11.30am & 1.20pm

Folk Dance Remixed are a groundbreaking company creating unique fusions between Folk and Hip Hop styles with live music. Led by Artistic Directors Kerry Fletcher and Natasha Khamjani, the company rediscover old traditions through contemporary forms.

The Ceilidh Jam will get you on your feet for a funked up, unique, folky, social dance – a fabulous chance for all to dance! Using traditional callers to teach, we’ll be mixing folk formations, Street Dance, legendary moves and freestyle grooves – from the Soul Train Line to Lucky 7, Strip the Willow to the Electric Slide.

The Ceilidh will be performed at 12.30pm & 2.15pm

More information on this event can be found on our What’s On page.

This event is thanks to funding from Arts Council England Let’s Create Jubilee Fund & Community Foundation for Surrey.

Saturday 11th June is set to be an extremely exciting free event for the local community with workshops school group performances, performances from Folk Dance Remixed and lot’s of celebrating. Part of the event will see us host a community dance program and we are thrilled to be showcasing some local community groups throughout the day.

The community performance platform will see local dance groups Dance Shack, Cremona School of Dance, Flipside Dance Company and Woking College perform in our outdoor performance area showcasing some of their amazing routines. We are incredibly excited to have them as part of the event to showcase local talent.

11am Performance – Dance Shack

1.30pm Performance – Cremona School of Dance, Flipside Dance & Woking College

For more information on the groups performing please click on the buttons below

We look forward to you attending this part of our event. For more information on Encounters – please visit our events page

Dance Woking would like to thank it’s funders Arts Council England, Woking Borough Council, Akiko Design and Community Foundation for Surrey.