Workshops and Holiday Club
Summer Dance Intensive 2026 - Day 1
Try different dance styles from across the ages, with a chance to create your own multicultural choreo. Dance styles sampled include traditional African, European court dance, Charleston (think Bugsie Malone), contemporary (think Alvin Ailey revelations) and afrobeats.
- Wednesday 29th July 10-4pm - Fresh Dance & Arts 44-46 Greenbank Rd BS5 6EY - from £25 early bird (£40 for both days) - aimed at ages 7--12 years old - taught by SWDT's Anna Davis and guest teacher Kenzi Ireland
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Summer Dance Intensive 2026 - Day 2
Cecchetti technique is central to the ballet training we follow at South West Dance Theatre and our Cecchetti day will really bring this to life for participants showing them how Cecchetti trained some of ballets greatest stars – Pavlova, Nijinsky, de Valois – and some of the ballets they made famous. Then in the afternoon we will pull all that together to make a short dance film on Cecchetti and the turbulent world he lived in during the Russian revolution and World War I. (No-one need be in front of the camera unless they want to be.)
- Thursday 30th July 10-4pm - Fresh Dance & Arts 44-46 Greenbank Road BS5 6EY - from £25 early bird (£40 for both days early bird) - aimed at ages 7-12 - dance taught by Anna Davis; film making taught by Will Liney
Booking and info: https://hdfst.uk/e156672
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Mini's Dance Intensive
All Around the World with Dance From the hottest deserts, the coldest glaciers, rainforests and more, we wil take you on a global tour as we try out dance and movement inspired by cultures, climates and creatures around the world.
If you've enjoyed our Christmas charity fundraising workshops this should be one for you too. - Fresh Dance & Arts 44-46 Greenbank Road BS5 6EY - from £5 early bird - Aimed at children 3-6 years old, younger children welcome too. Under 5s must be accompanied by an adult on site throughout and accompanying grown ups are welcome to join in too!
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South West Dance Theatre Dance Schools Workshops
Looking for fresh ways to present school subjects?
South West Dance Theatre are offering dance workshops on science, Shakespeare and WW2, where we use dance to play with ideas from the school curriculum.
Photos from the MacBeth workshop at Elmfield School in the run up to Lady MacBeth
Workshops last two hours, have moderate cost and resource requirements and offer pupils the chance to :
- get moving
- discuss ideas on key topics
- see how dance can illustrate key topics
- work with dancers to choreograph their own dance pieces on subjects from their school curriculum
To book or find out more email info@southwestdancetheatre.com
Topics on offer
South West Dance Theatre have long worked with ideas in science, in particular light (such as wave-particle duality, colour and photosynthesis), and quantum mechanics (such as coupling, entanglement, and quantization of energy). Workshops would be led by Anna Demming Davis, an experienced dance practitioner with a PhD in physics, and over a decade's experience writing and working for the Institute of Physics.
Clips of choreography on the physics of light from the International Year of Light
South West Dance Theatre have worked with the Bristol Shakespeare Festival on several Dance pieces including Lady Macbeth, Waltz and Shimmy with Shakespeare and Being Romeo and Juliet.
Lady Macbeth also worked incorporated British Sign Language and we provided a Macbeth dance workhop for children with little or limited hearing at Elfield Schoolin the lead up to the first performance. The pupils used dance to play with the rhyme, rhythm and imagery of Shakespeare's original text as well as tell the tale at gripping moments of one of the world's most famous plays.
To commemorate the 80th anniversary of the outbreak of WW2 in 2019 and the 75th anniversary of the armistice in 2020, South West Dance Theatre have developed a piece that portrays the loves, losses, grit and fortitude of people around the world during the war. The next performance of Letters from the Home Front takes place at the Mission Theatre in Bath. We would be delighted to provide a workshop where pupils can use movement to explore some of the experiences people underwent at the home front as well as the battle fields.
South West Dance Theatre performing Letters from the Home Front at the Trinity on Remembrance Sunday 2019 (still from video by Roger Barnes)
Workshop costs and resource requirements
Each workshop costs £100-£150 depending on the group size and whether we need to provide one or two dancers to lead it.
We would need:
A large room, ideally access to a PA and possibly in school staff support depending on group size and special needs.
For booking email info@southwestdancetheatre.com