Community Projects

7 Schools: 1 Town

The project aimed for schools to work together to explore the benefit of culture on students with a focus on dance and movement, and to build confidence in movement teaching in the schools.

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Moving Stories

DanceEast & Gecko joined forces to deliver a project working directly with deaf or disabled Children and Young People (CYP). Working with the theme ‘belonging’ the selected students created dance pieces for film which premiered at Move | Be Moved Festival in 2015.

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The District Project

Through delivering projects we aim to support schools and groups in delivering unparalleled high quality opportunities to their students and members. DanceEast has a commitment to delivering projects across Suffolk, in schools and with community groups, increasing access to high quality cultural experiences and bringing communities together.

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Hospice Dance Days

DanceEast and East Anglia’s Children’s Hospice | Treehouse Hospice (Ipswich) have now been working together since 2012 providing a range of very diverse experiences for young people with life limiting conditions and their families at Jerwood DanceHouse, at The Treehouse and in alternative settings.

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Move | Be Moved Festival 2016

Following last year’s success, DanceEast hosted their second annual community dance festival from Friday 1 – Wednesday 6 July 2016, featuring performance platforms, symposiums, project screenings and an opportunity to showcase experimental work in progress from local artists.

 

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Big Dance

DanceEast is the Big Dance Hub for the East of England. Big Dance is a biennial festival of people dancing delivered by Foundation for Community Dance and the Mayor of London.

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Our Community Projects

DanceEast has been running a range of innovative community projects for over thirty years. We work with a range of partners on local, national and international projects and enjoy introducing people to dance for the first time as much as developing and refining skills in more experienced dancers.

Projects are sometimes open and sometimes targeted at very specific groups, sometimes short and intensive and sometimes run over long periods. We are open to new ideas and ways of working and always looking to make a difference to the lives of the people we work with and have a good time doing so.