Citymoves Dance Agency is the regional dance agency for North East Scotland, part of Aberdeen City Council and is a Creative Scotland Regularly Funded Organisation. Our purpose is to make a difference through dance in the North East of Scotland through forging strong partnerships, increasing participation, developing audiences, nurturing talent and placing Citymoves on the … Continued

Creative Scotland’s ‘Nurturing Talent – Time to Shine Fund’ aims to support young people aged 14-20…   Are you interested in developing your skills in one of the following areas? Drama Dance Music Film Visual Arts Literature Digital Arts Sometimes creative talent needs a little bit of financial help to reach its full potential. Whatever … Continued

Residency Opportunity in Banff, October-November 2016.  Deadline 6 July.  Application Deadline: July 06, 2016   Overview This residency program is for up to four Scottish artists in any discipline (including but not limited to visual and performing arts, music, photography, film, new media and writing) who wish to explore any aspect of Banff’s unique environment, … Continued

The Royal Scottish Country Dance Society (RSCDS) is keen to bring Scottish Country Dancing back into classrooms and youth groups. We have produced materials tailored specifically for teachers and for schools’ accreditation and CPD. The popular ‘Jigs & Reels’ aimed at teachers of primary children is now supplemented by ‘Dance Trad’ for secondary school age … Continued

Dance Base residencies, programmed by Artistic Director, Morag DeyesThroughout the year Dance Base offer residency opportunities to professional choreographers, companies and individual artists who want to develop their work. The selection is not highly competitive but we will choose artists who we believe will make the best use of the facilities we have built for … Continued

A holiday in Tuscany? A week of step dance workshops? Or both?   In September this year, seven tutors from Scotland and Cape Breton and around fifty participants will head to the “Most Scottish Town in Italy”, the medieval hill town of Barga in Tuscany, for a week-long School of Scottish Music, Dance and Song. … Continued

Dance Base is currently looking for volunteers with an interest in being involved in the upcoming Dance for Parkinson’s classes that will be running on a weekly basis from April onwards. Working with our partners at Scottish Ballet, we will be providing training for dance teachers and creating dance classes with live music for people … Continued

Arts charity and social enterprise Aesop and People Dancing, the UK development organisation for community and participatory dance, have joined together to research current dance activities for, with and by older people in the UK. The resulting free report will be published in summer 2016. It will give us the first picture of older people’s dance activities … Continued

Tuesday 26 – Friday 29 July De Montfort University, Leicester   “Completely inspirational, I can’t wait to start delivering.” Hayley Earlam, Participant 2015. The People Dancing Summer School is back for 2016. This unique professional development experience offers the opportunity to develop your skills, and be inspired by great dance practice and renowned artists and leaders in … Continued

Organisers of the International Folklore Festival FESTIVALUL INIMILOR (www.festivalulinimilor.ro), held in Timisoara, Romania, are interested in a traditional Scottish dance group and bagpipe band to invite to the festival this summer (members must be 16 years or older)  The festival will be take place between 6 – 10 July in Timisoara, Romania.  The organisers will take … Continued