Ignite your imagination

Day one of the Ignite residency, organised by Gloucestershire Dance and held at the National Star Centre. Dancers are brimming with energy, choreographers eager to explore. A shared sense of newness and openness. The accommodation will keep us grounded!

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Call for West Midlands Dancers

Dance Transformations is looking for 9 committed and vibrant dancers for a fantastic opportunity to perform works by emerging disabled and non-disabled choreographers.

Dance Transformations provides a unique programme which supports a group of emerging artists with a physical disability and/or sensory impairment and non-disabled dance artists to investigate dance making.

Recruited dancers will have the opportunity to work with two artists on the Dance Transformations programme in the beautiful DanceXchange studios, in Birmingham.

You will experience different approaches developed by disabled and non-disabled artists, and have the opportunity to perform to a wide audience at a symposium event at Coventry University attended by people from across the dance sector.

Want to get involved? Read more on our website http://www.blueeyedsouldance.com/dance-transformations/call-for-dancers/

Join in the conversation on our Dance Transformations social network: http://dancetransformations.ning.com/

Follow the hashtag on Twitter #DanceT.

Tea with the Queen

What a fun evening. Much shaking of hands, royal, talented and famous. Nice chandeliers and carpets and enough wealth to keep a whole national inclusive dance programme going for 20 years.

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The Company may close but the dance will continue…..

The staff and trustees of Blue Eyed Soul Dance Company have spent the past few weeks looking at the future of the Company’s work in light of the loss of secure funding from Arts Council England from 2012. Whilst acknowledging the restrictions this imposes, we view this as an opportunity for positive change.

Demand for inclusive dance work remains high, and we are really committed to continuing the work that has been so successful over the last 16 years.

Blue Eyed Soul Dance Company will continue to exist until March 2012.

Rachel Freeman, Rachel Liggitt and Sally Edwards will then continue delivering different aspects of the work as independent artists.

• Artistic Director Rachel Freeman will concentrate on aerial  dance and community performance.
• Rachel Liggitt will continue her focus on project based education and training work.
• Founder Company member Sally Edwards will continue delivering alongside both artists on a project basis.
• Company Manager Moya Malekin is taking this opportunity to relocate and develop her career.

We’d like to thank people for all their support and encouragement, and we look forward to working with you and our other many national and international partners in the coming years.

The Company may close but the dance will continue…..