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

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

• Performance and Concept: Tim Casson

• Photography, Filming and Editing: Alisa Boanta, Jacopo Miceli, Karolis Andriulis, Luc Sung Yu-Lun, Ale Mariscalco and Malachy Luckie

• Graphic Design and Branding: Simon Allen

• Online and Multimedia: The Swarm (Jason Daponte and Simon Allen)

• Promotional Consideration: Camper

• The Dance WE Made has been supported by... Big Dance, Sadler's Wells, The Swarm, Legacy Trust UK, Arts Council England, Mayor of London, Camper and The Foundation For Community Dance.

tour dates 2023

• 5th July - LONDON - Summer by the River

• 29th July - LONDON - Regent’s Roots Festival

• 2nd August - LONDON - Summer by the River
  (Let’s Make a Dance Workshops only)

• 27th August - HOUNSLOW - Details tbc

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)

• 2024
  UK/INTENATIONAL Jersey (UK) - Schools Edition

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