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Hunky Dory Easter Holiday Club

Dance Woking is thrilled to be able to offer a Easter Holiday club in collaboration with Club4.

Come and enjoy a themed holiday club with arts & crafts, baking and dancing for children in primary school years 4 to year 6.

We have an incredibly exciting programme of events planned that all participants will enjoy this Easter.

Monday 3 & Tuesday 4 April will see us open the doors at Lakeview Community Centre.

The club will run from 9.30am – 2.30pm and will focus around the theme of PLANT & GROW.

The theme will celebrate spring and will include decorating individual plant pots, creating a small herb garden, learning about herbs and their uses in baking as well as some wonderful dance and games centred around the seasons.

The Hunky-Dory Easter Club provides a great way for children to have fun, make new friends, eat well and get creative. Our experienced and friendly team will lead a range of activities including creative dance, arts and crafts. There will be one baking session during the two-days, wellbeing activities and lots of fun games. The club encourages children to find new ways of expressing themselves.

Book Hunky Dory Easter Club at Lakeview

Our aim is to encourage and inspire every child to try new activities and to learn new skills in a safe, lively and disciplined environment.

A two course hot lunch will be provided, and parents will be able to choose from a selected menu with numerous options, including vegetarian.

At Dance Woking we believe in creating active and engaging opportunities to inspire the younger generation. Our Hunky Dory Easter 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 the activities.

The Hunky Dory Easter Club will run on Mon 3 & Tues 4 April at Lakeview Community Centre, Hartshill Walk, Horsell, Woking, GU21 3AG from 9.30am – 2.30pm

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This programme is possible as a result of funding from Surrey County Council. 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 holidays.  

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Hunky Dory Easter Holiday Club – Addlestone

Dance Woking is thrilled to be able to offer a Easter Holiday club in collaboration with Club4.

Come and enjoy a themed holiday club with arts & crafts, baking and dancing for children in primary school years 4 to year 6 (8-11year olds)

Wednesday 5 April and Wednesday 12 April will see us at a new venue, Addlestone Community Centre. The Club will run from 9.30am – 2.00pm and will see the participants try dance activities, arts and crafts, baking.

At Dance Woking we believe in creating active and engaging opportunities to inspire the younger generation. Our Hunky Dory Easter 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 the activities.

Wednesday 5th April will see us focus on the the Plant & Grow.

Participants will be given the chance to decorate their own plant pots focusing on Seasons. Dance activities will focus on how to use big and small shapes to create inspiring movement. This will be followed up with enrichment activities including creating spring themed pictures with food. To finish, they will then be given the opportunity to plant some seeds in their personalised plant pots (to watch them grow in time) and hopefully use them in their future baking activities.

Wednesday 12th April will see us focus on the theme of Space

Along with testing their hot/cold reflexes in food taste tests, the participants will learn about space, it’s planets and temperatures and experiment with movement linked to this theme. They will make rockets to take home and create amazing space scenes.

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Dance Woking’s Hunky Dory Easter Holiday Club has been created in collaboration with Active Surrey’s Club4 Evouchers Scheme. If you are eligible for the scheme, your school/Active Surrey will have provided you with an evouchers code and a link to book your place via their website. If you need help with this, please do not hesitate to contact us

A two course lunch will be provided, and parents will be able to choose from a selected menu with numerous options, including vegetarian.

Our aim is to encourage and inspire every child to try new activities and to learn new skills in a safe, lively and disciplined environment.

Our new venue will run on Wed 5 & 12 April Addlestone Community Centre, Garfield Road, Addlestone, Surrey, KT15 2NJ from 9.30am – 2.00pm

This programme is possible as a result of funding from Surrey County Council. 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 holidays.  

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Hunky Dory Easter Holiday Club

Dance Woking is thrilled to be able to offer a Easter Holiday club in collaboration with Club4.

Come and enjoy a themed holiday club with arts & crafts, baking and dancing for children in primary school years 4 to year 6.

We have an incredible exciting programme of events planned that all participants will enjoy this Easter.

Wednesday 12 & Thursday 13 April will be a very exciting 2 days at Lakeview Community Centre (Wednesday 12 April) AND Horsell Village Hall (Thursday 13 April) . As well as the usual creative and dance themed activities the participants will be lucky enough to take part and watch an exciting performance piece.

The theme for these two-days is space, we are very excited to share that Thursday 13 April we will be joined by Katie Dale-Everett Dance who will be leading workshops and performing ‘Playscape: How to Build a Galaxy’

‘Playscape: How to Build A Galaxy’ is an immersive performance installation that combines dance, motion capture technology and visuals to open up new possibilities for physical, social and digital connection between people. Interacting with projected celestial graphics whilst wearing motion capture suits beneath a scrim stimulating the sky, participants work together to build a shared universe. Witness the journey of dance, play and interaction where we discover new ways of sharing space and trusting our imaginations

Book Hunky Dory Easter Club at Lakeview

Our aim is to encourage and inspire every child to try new activities and to learn new skills in a safe, lively and disciplined environment.

A two course hot lunch will be provided, and parents will be able to choose from a selected menu with numerous options, including vegetarian.

At Dance Woking we believe in creating active and engaging opportunities to inspire the younger generation. Our Hunky Dory Easter 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 the activities.

The Hunky Dory Easter Club will run on Wed 12 April at Lakeview Community Centre and Thurs 13 April at Horsell Village Hall.

Book Lakeview Community Centre

This programme is possible as a result of funding from Surrey County Council. 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 holidays.  

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Christmas Travelling Tea Dance

Dance Woking is delighted to announce we will be on the road in December touring our popular Travelling Social Tea Dance with a Christmas Special!

The Travelling Social Tea Dance forms part of our work focusing on the older members of our community, to support their well-being through connectivity and supports five ways to wellbeing through the following:

  • 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

The event will feature a mix of dance performances and participation opportunities, inspired by the festive season, including nods to The Nutcracker, The 12 days of Christmas and Winter warmers. The Travelling Social Tea Dance is delivered indoors and gives you and your residents a chance to come together, enjoy some dance, music and movement and be part of a shared experience in the build up to Christmas festivities.

The Travelling Social Tea Dance is led by 2 professional dance artists, and a facilitator. The team bring resources related to the event theme to support participation.  The event lasts approximately an hour.

We have tested this format over the last 12 months, and from feedback it is about the right mix of participation, performance, fun and length. We believe it would be a highlight to any social calendar this December. If you are interested, we would urge you to contact us as places on this tour are limited and will be taken on a first come basis.

The tour dates are as follows:

Tuesday 13 December – AM & PM

Wednesday 14 December – AM & PM

Thursday 15 December – AM & PM

To find out more and to book your date on the Christmas Travelling Tea Dance please contact us.

This tour has been made possible following funding support from Arts Council England’s Project grant scheme and Woking Borough Council.

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Dazzle Days

Dance Woking is delighted to add DAZZLE DAYS to our expanding outreach provision in local schools. Dazzle days are ideal for an end of term or end of year enrichment day. They can involve multiple groups or classes all participating in short workshops based on a dance style of the school’s choice.

Dazzle days on offer for Summer Term 2023 To be advised

Carnival!: Learn all about the vibrant celebrations of Carnival Dance through dance, music and movement. Lively, fun and accessible workshops for all ages, including colourful props and shakers. The day culminates with the opportunity to try a carnival procession.

Ellie Dowling, Engagement Manager said “Dazzle Days are a fantastic opportunity to unite year groups or even the whole school in an immersive, cultural activity. An asset to any enrichment week, our Dazzle days have been extremely popular in the Summer Term with focus on Carnival and Jubilee themes. Participants often enter the workshops a little unsure but leave bursting with energy and excitement, only to be followed up with a confidence boosting group performance or parade at the end of the day“

Dazzle Days take place between 9am – 3pm, timetables are bespoke and are led by a fully qualified Dance Woking Outreach Team member.

If you would like more information about our Dazzle days or to find out costs and a breakdown of a typical day please contact Ellie, Engagements Manager.

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Dancing to increase Resilience

Supports: Health & Wellbeing through Physical Activity, Dance & Mental Wellbeing

Suitable for all year groups and targeted via PHSE Team
Type: Curriculum and Extra Curriculum Workshops
Delivery: In person at your school

Dance Woking undertook a pilot project in 2021 working with Woking & Surrey Youth service team to offer dance and creative activities on school premises to address the issue of mental health and wellbeing in young people.

Dancing can make a person feel physically refreshed and improve their mood, tackling serious issues including anxiety and depression. Group dancing is a tool to release daily stress, a distraction from everyday worries and an outlet for imagination and emotion.

Dance Woking is offering this programme to schools during 2022/23

Benefit to participants: By being involved in a group activity, such as learning a dance routine, the participants learn the importance of teamwork and develop the ability to work successfully in a group environment. The process also helps a young person learn patience, listening and leadership skills as they start to help each other with learning and practicing the steps. They also learn to accept vulnerability; that it is okay not to be able to do everything first time and that you should feel confident enough to ask for help, either from the teacher or from another student. Dancing encourages children to experiment and find different paths to solving problems. It is vital in a young person’s development to learn the importance of trial-and-error and that, if at first you don’t succeed, try and try again. The sense of success and accomplishment they will experience when they have mastered a series of steps will encourage them to transfer this ambition into other aspects of life. The club will provide a safe environment within which the participants can blossom and grow, practicing important life skills and becoming confident risk takers.

If you would like a series of workshops or an Enrichment Day in the Spring Term or Summer terms, please contact us.

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Rotate Performance Parkour

Fantastic session with Alister & Miranda from Urban Playground Team; we are looking to start a weekly session in January 2018; please contact Kate via email office@dancewoking.com if you are interested in taking part. The sessions are likely to be on a Monday early evening.

For an insight into what the group achieved see below:

October Half Term – Rotate – Performance Parkour Special

Alister & Miranda from The Urban Playground Team led the session; participants had the opportunity to use a scaffold frame to develop technique and performance skills as well as work on small group choreographies and sequences. Lots of high energy was required!

For an insight into the Autumn term go to: Mannequin Challenge

About: The Urban Playground Team perform and teach Performance-Parkour or 2PK . Their teaching is inclusive with an emphasis on ability, not disability working with students of all ages, specialising in working with young people at-risk of social exclusion. Performance-Parkour or 2PK is the integration of Parkour’s movement principles and core values within a performance for an audience, whether live or recorded. It can be considered a choreographic language. Critical to Performance-Parkour is the aim of communicating beyond the skill of the discipline and creating a dialogue with and within its practitioner community and audience. It does not describe a display or demonstration of Parkour.

For an insight into the performance of STEAM go to:

https://www.dancewoking.com/casestudy/dance-wokings-rotate/

The Urban Playground Team at Party in the Park 2016
The Urban Playground Team at Party in the Park 2016 with STEAM

To find out more about Rotate go to Rotate case study

 

 

 

 

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