Sarah brought her wealth of experience in delivering, managing and developing youth dance provision in community settings over the past 12 years to help establish a youth dance hub, made up of four satellite companies in Barnsley, Doncaster, Rotherham and Sheffield. The project aimed to grow the provision available for young people from a range of experience levels and dance styles, establishing a thriving community for creative practice and potential progression for those who are interested in training and pursuing careers in the dance sector in the future.

You can find out more about South Yorkshire Youth Dance Company via the South Yorkshire Dance Hub website or by following their adventures on Instagram.

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In Summer 2020, as a result of moving our classes online, PYDC decided to embrace the new technology as an opportunity to make performance work in a new way!

A grid of squares, limited wiggle room, technical difficulties and a collection of sofa cushions…! We connected, we explored, we played and we laughed. A digital dance performance presenting a collection of our new found possibilities emerging out of our current limitations.

Created June 2020

Premiered at UDance Digital 2020

Music: Babby by Phil Anker

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In August 2017, some members of PYDC took over Avenham and Miller Parks in Preston for a sited dance workshop. Exploring themes of Inquiry and Connection, here are the results of their creative exploration!

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PROJECT: Place was a 2 day Dance Film Intensive delivered by Blue Moose Dance Company. PROJECT: Place brought together 9 dancers, aged 7 – 16years in Craven, North Yorkshire to create a Dance Film inspired by their surrounding landscape, environment and community, led by Dance Artists & Film Makers, Sarah Hall & Zanna Dennis.

This project was made possible by the support of North Yorkshire County Council’s Stronger Communities Fund. For more information about Blue Moose Dance Company and similar projects, please visit: www.bluemoosedance.org.uk

MUSIC: Life by UKYIO MUSIC BY UKIYO http://smarturl.it/ukiyoau

https://www.instagram.com/ukiyoau/

Project Place was premiered at UDance 2019, and also shown at BIG Up North Dance Festival & Blue Moose Showcase 2019.

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STRIDE was commissioned by Great Place: Lakes and Dales and created over 3 very wet days in May 2020.

Directed by: Sarah Hall & Zanna Dennis

Featuring: The people of the Dales and Lakes

Film Maker: John Dennis

Composer: Dillon James

STRIDE was premiered at the Blue Moose Showcase in 2019

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Rural Steps began in 2018 through funding from Arts Council England and ongoing support from the York and North Yorkshire Dance Network, Yorkshire Dance, Craven District Council, Create Scarborough, York St John University, York Theatre Royal, Rural Arts, York Dance Space and Gecko Physical Theatre.

The project supported the development of six Youth Dance programmes in areas across North Yorkshire: Skipton, Ingleton, Northallerton, Thirsk, Harrogate and Scarborough. The programmes were led by six Independent Dance Artists who live and work across North Yorkshire, supporting them to establish new activity and sustainable work in their locale. You can find out more about continuing activity in some of these areas by checking out Union of Dance, Thirsk Youth Dance, Skipton Youth Dance and Step into Boys Project and our very own Ingleton Youth Dance. 

For most areas, Artists formed teaching pairs to begin with to support each other in the initial stages and gain a valuable training experience in co-planning and co-delivery of Youth Dance activity. Alongside the programme, Artists attended regular CPD opportunities to strengthen their skills and gain new ideas for delivering dance to those new to dancers and in for young people in rural areas.

As part of this project, we have produced the Making It Happen toolkit, providing information, inspiration and resources for Artists setting up and working in Youth Dance and other Community Dance activities. A great resource if you are starting out and need to get everything in place to hit the ground running. Alongside the toolkit, we also produced a new Podcast series chatting to Youth Dane Artists, Parents and Young Dancers about their experiences in the world of Youth Dance. Check it out!

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As we look ahead to this year and the huge increase in time online for young people, we see this dance and wellbeing performance package as a great opportunity to support young people to take stock, reflect on their own attitudes towards self care and body image and look to make positive changes.

This performance and workshop package is available for booking this year. The workshop includes repertoire from the performance piece, creative tasks based on exploring your own thoughts on Body Image and the Media, and a discussion on how the work was made. 

If you are interested in learning more, please contact our Education Programme Co-Ordinator, Hannah, at education@bluemoosedance.org.uk or 07775 763522.

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As the pressures and influence of social media increase, and time online is more prevalent than ever, now is the perfect time to support young people in developing healthy attitudes to their body image, health and wellbeing. Our Body Image Dance Performance schools tour looked to explore just that, and is available for booking again this year. 

In 2016, we were successful in gaining funding for Preston Youth Dance Company from the Comic Relief Local Communities Fund to create and tour a new performance piece based on positive body image and healthy attitudes, alongside a workshop delivered by the Company dancers to other young people. During the devising process, dancers researched the issues of negative Body Image through social media for people of their age, explored their individuality and celebrated difference, mocking the ideas of body shapes and unrealistic selfies!

Working through devising, research and development and the production of an education workshop package was an incredible learning curve for the dancers and also allowed them to take their advocacy and leadership skills to the next level. In 2017/18, we received additional funding through the Lancashire Community Investment Fund for a second tour around schools and local organisations, reaching almost 1000 young people in total.

As we look ahead to this year and the huge increase in time online for young people, we see this dance and wellbeing performance package as a great opportunity to support young people to take stock, reflect on their own attitudes towards self care and body image and look to make positive changes.

This performance and workshop package is available for booking this year. The workshop includes repertoire from the performance piece, creative tasks based on exploring your own thoughts on Body Image and the Media, and a discussion on how the work was made. 

If you are interested in learning more, please contact our Education Programme Co-Ordinator, Hannah, at education@bluemoosedance.org.uk or 07775 763522.

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In 2015, Sarah was lead choreographer for the second of three (of 3) mass outdoor performance to commemorate the centenary of WW1. Leading 150 dancers aged 3 – 22, and managing of team of 6 dance artists, Sarah produced a 45minute outdoor performance depicting the life of the soldier during WW1 using dance physical theatre and voice, performed at Peninsula Barracks, Orford. 

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