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December Travelling Tea Dance

Dance Woking is now taking bookings for the very popular December Travelling Tea Dance.

The Travelling 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. The Travelling 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.

The event 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.

Now in it’s third year of touring, We have tested the format under various themes and can’t wait to bring some dancing back to the residents. Feedback has said it is about the right mix of participation, performance, fun and length. We believe it would be a highlight to any social calendar in your venue. Booking for the summer tour is now closed.

December Travelling Tea dance tour week commencing 4 December 2023

To find out more and to book your date on our next Travelling Tea Dance tour please contact us.

This tour has been made possible following funding support from Surrey Community Foundation and Arts Council England Project grant.

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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 Autumn Term 2023:

Kings Coronation – A dazzle day focusing on dance that centres around British Heritage
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.
South Asian Dance – a day focusing on either Kathak, Bollywood or Bharat Natyam
Plastics/Pollution – A creative day focusing on the environment and how plastics and pollution are affecting our world

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 2023/24

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 Autumn term, 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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