New Arts Festival in Devon for 2018The Branchline partnership is supporting learning disabled young people create a first for Dartington: The ORDINARY ART FESTIVAL is a brand new festival offer for 2018 drawing together the work of ‘artists with labels’ from across the SW. Branchline is a new ... Read More

A big thank you to all of our fabulous performers and all those who attended our Tea Dance event at Torre Abbey on 17th September. We loved dancing with you all! Our thanks also go to The International Agatha Christie Festival for hosting us.

Our dance for falls prevention project is featured as part of Torbay Culture.Find out all about our project here

Dance in Devon presentThe Doodle Dance ShowAn innovative show combining drawing and dance11th November | 11.30am & 2.30pm | The Palace Theatre, Paignton12th November | 1.30pm and 4pm | Exeter PhoenixDance in Devon is delighted to invite Award-winning performers Anna Williams (Russell Maliphant, La Ribot) and Tom Roden (New Art ... Read More

Dance in Devon and the International Agatha Christie Festival invite young and old to come together in Torbay to create a new dance piece for the festival, with choreographer Richard Chappell. Each with a story to share, dancers from Torbay between the ages of 12 – 96 have been working ... Read More

An Evening of Youth Dance at The Plough Arts Centre We had the chance to chat and have some creative dance conversations with some of the young dancers who were performing at the Inspire Youth Dance Event at The Plough Arts Centre on Thursday 13th July, organised by Community Dance ... Read More

An unusual dance project for the shores of West Somerset “As summer ends, strangers will land. We watch. Everyone must decide. What to hold on to, what to leave behind.” Stacked Wonky Dance Company introduce their new dance project, The Landings. The Landings is an innovative site-specific dance project that exists because ... Read More

An invitation to come and play! STRETCH Sophia Clist with Nick Burge- an interactive artwork for all agesMonday 15th - Friday 19th May | Exeter CathedralStretch is a screen made of hundreds of strands of fine elastic stretching across a space. Stretch is ... Read More

Thank you to everyone who joined us on Saturday for our This Girl Can event. We saw 74 people try out bollywood, street and ballroom styles with our mother and daughter duo Anne and Amy.

Best Foot Forward in the People's ProjectsA huge thank you to everyone who voted for our project – you are our BFF! #VoteBFF #peoplesprojects Unfortunately we have not been successful in winning the People’s Projects funding for our Best Foot Forward project. Our congratulations go to the winners who can be ... Read More

Sadler’s Wells is inviting applications from over 60's groups across the country to perform in Elixir Extracts, part of Elixir Festival 2017. Celebrating lifelong creativity and the contribution of older artists, the Elixir Festival was set up in 2014 to challenge assumptions about what older people can do, throw a spotlight ... Read More

We were so pleased with the success of our Dance In Time weekend at the end of November, so we wanted to share both some images and writing from the weekend. We invited local writer Jennifer Parsons to write a review of Dance In Time 2016, which is below. There are ... Read More

"I was lucky enough to have the opportunity to join in the workshops at the Young Choreographers South West Residential weekend at Dartington as a volunteer. The whole experience was wonderful. The choreographers leading the workshops, Sade Alleyne and Theo Clinkard, were inspirational. Very different, but both exciting and thought provoking. ... Read More

On September 10th arts wave devon held an Artists Networking Day at Exeter Central Library. Daisi, Dance in Devon, the Devon Guild of Craftsmen and Wolf and Water hope those that attended enjoyed the event and had the opportunity to establish new contacts and meet with peers, share best practice, and ... Read More

For International Dance Day, Dr. Sara Houston talks about how an innovative dance programme offers both physical and mental stimulation for those suffering with Parkinson’s disease. “I was asked by English National Ballet in 2010 to evaluate its 12-week pilot dance class for people with Parkinson’s. The pilot became a regular ... Read More