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The Dance WE Made

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The original Record Breaking interactive dance performance that invites YOU to be the choreographer – no experience required!

COVID 19 UPDATE - The Dance WE Made can be performed in outdoor public spaces and can take place safely within current social distancing guidelines.

The project roams Festivals, Parks and Public Spaces, inviting members of the public to devise original choreography in collaboration with our teams of friendly, creative and highly skilled professional dancers!

The newly created dances are then performed by the dancers in each location, filmed, and posted online for the world to see!

Since starting in 2012 as part of ‘Big Dance’, The Dance WE Made has created over 130 dances in 10 countries, has collected dance moves from over 2500 people and our videos have had over 50,000 views online.

The project, has been presented at locations and festivals including Glastonbury Festival, Wilderness Festival and bOing Family Festival in the UK, as well as internationally in New York, Zimbabwe, Canada, Portugal, Austria, Vietnam, Abu Dhabi and Hong Kong!

In 2012 the project set a New World Record with '152' - the dance piece with the largest number of choreographers ever created.

CREDITS

tour dates 2023

tour dates (highlights)

  • 2012
    LONDON
    Sadler’s Wells / Barbican Centre / Covent Garden

  • 2013
    UK
    Sadler’s Wells / Glastonbury Festival
    INTERNATIONAL
    Downtown Dance Festival (New York)

  • 2014
    UK
    Edinburgh (British Dance Edition) / Dales Festival of Art / Sadler’s Wells / Middlesborough / Southbank Centre / Wales Millennium Centre

  • 2015
    UK
    The Place / Yorkshire Dance / Dancin’ Oxford / Kings Cross Curious Festival / Y Dance Routes Festival Edinburgh

  • 2016
    UK
    Dagfest / Middlesborough Mela / Bristol Harbour Festival / Birmingham Mela / Luton Mela / Gloucester / bOing Family Festival / London Mela / Hounslow / Didcot

  • 2017
    UK
    Pavilion Dance South West / Ipswich Maritime Festival
    INTERNATIONAL
    Harare International Festival of the Arts (Zimbabwe) / Culture Summit Abu Dhabi (UAE)

  • 2018
    UK
    Barbican Centre / Stamford Family Day / Gravity Fields Festival / The Great Get Together at Queen Elizabeth Park / Our City Dances Brighton / National Theatre River Stage / St. Thomas’ Hospital / Make Your Own Mela Bradford / Rochdale Feel Good Festival / Barnsley Civic Garden Party / Festival of Imagineers Coventry

  • 2019
    UK
    Harwich Festival / Merchant City Festival Glasgow / Encounter Bow
    INTERNATIONAL Intimate Festival Vienna (Austria)

  • 2020
    UK
    DanceEast / Ely Market
    INTERNATIONAL Vienna (Austria)

  • 2021
    UK
    Wilderness Festival / Corby
    INTERNATIONAL Hanoi (Vietnam)

  • 2022
    UK
    Slough / Chippenham / Sleaford / Newham / Norwich / Peckham
    INTERNATIONAL Hanoi (Vietnam) / Hong Kong (SAR) / Benalla (Australia) / St. Pölten (Austria)

  • 2023
    INTERNATIONAL Hong Kong (SAR) / St. Pölten (Austria)

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It’s a creative project that not only draws attention to public space and how we inhabit it, but exemplifies the creative force in each and every one of us.
— The Huffington Post
The Dance WE Made brings dance to the public in wonderful new ways
— The New York Times

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Watch creator Tim Casson have a TED talk moment, speaking about #TDWM and the importance of creativity at Culture Summit Abu Dhabi in 2017

In 2021, as part of the British Council's Connections Through Culture Fund, C&F collaborated with Sen Immersive in Vietnam to introduce The Dance WE Made to Vietnam through a mixture of online & in person interaction.

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