Take time for yourself, be in your body and connect with new people in FREE monthly facilitated dance & conversation sessions. 

When and Where:

Our next sessions of Dance Included will run from 2pm - 5pm on Sunday 12 January, Sunday 2 February & Sunday 2 March at the Key Theatre, PE1 1EF.

Join us in Peterborough for this free weekend activity - use the link below to book your place.

What to Expect:

Each monthly session will include 2-hours of movement led by an artist (with regular water breaks) followed by a 1-hour discussion period facilitated by a speaker.

The movement sections will be mostly improvisation-based, so you can choose how much you move your body. During these moments of dance, the artist will offer movement ideas and exercises for you to follow, however, this is a time for you to connect with your body, so you can participate as much or as little as you like.

While there will be independent dancing, you will not be expected to present anything to the group - though there will be a chance for you to share your moment with others if you wish to. It’s important to note that these sessions do not come with any preconceived ideas about aesthetics there’s no ‘right’ or ‘wrong’ way that something should look, only what feels right to you.

This is followed by a 1-hour facilitated discussion with a speaker.

Expectations in Dance Included Sessions:

It is very important to us that our events provide a positive and respectful environment for everyone. We have drawn up some guidelines about our expectations for conduct during sessions, as well as the procedure for giving feedback during or after a session. Use the link below to read about our conduct guidelines and how to provide feedback.

Frequently Asked Questions:

What to bring:

Comfortable clothing and a water bottle.

Age restrictions:

Dance Included sessions are for ages 16+

Access:

If you have access needs that we can support you with, please let us know when booking your place and we will be in touch to make arrangements.

Dietary Requirements:

Light refreshments will be provided. Please do let us know if you have any allergies or dietary requirements. Donations are welcome to help cover the refreshments.

Welcome to Dance Included’s New Artist: Kate Cox

Kate trained at Northern School of Contemporary Dance, and since 2013 has worked as a performer, choreographer, theatre maker, teacher and co-Artistic Director of award-winning dance theatre performance collective Gracefool Collective. 

Kate is a regular collaborator with Liverpool-based Art-Pop band Stealing Sheep. She has choreographed four live shows for them; Luma Disco, (for Manchester International Festival), Suffragette Summer (an outdoor promenade performance for festivals across the UK) WOW Machine (an immersive music and dance experience inspired by electronic music pioneer Delia Derbyshire), and most recently ‘Eurotopia’ - a live show for the 2023 Eurovision Festival opening concert, performed for a crowd of 20,000 at the ‘Eurovision Village’ in Liverpool. In 2025 she will be choreographing a new full live show for the band. 

Kate teaches regularly at conservatoire and HE level including as a guest teacher and choreographer at Northern School of Contemporary Dance, Edge Hill University and York St John’s Uni. She teaches choreography masterclasses and movement workshops nationally and internationally. She also works across community settings, facilitating movement sessions and co-creating performance work with a diverse range of groups.

Since 2021 Kate has been a lead artist on Yorkshire Dance’s ‘Company of People’, an ongoing project in collaboration with Performing Gender; running regular creative dance groups with communities across Leeds aged 10 - 90 and co-creating work with them as a touring performance company.

Could You be an Artist / Facilitator for Dance Included?

We’re looking for Expressions of Interest! More information using the button below.

Give Us Your Feedback:

Have you been to a Dance Included session (or several)? We would love to know what you thought of it, and how you have found the programme as a whole.

Take a minute to answer our short questionnaire using the link below to let us know how Dance Included is impacting you.

Steering Group

A new steering group will be formed of 6 participants to influence and make decisions about Dance Included, such as co-designing and evaluating the programme within the context of our wider dance strand.

The success of this group will rely on us all practising effective communication skills, (i.e. being open minded, curious and good listeners) and having a diversity of lived experience (age, background, experience.)

We would also seek to identify how being on the steering group will aid their own development.

The steering group will meet 4 times a year and be paid for their time at a rate of the Real Living Wage (currently £10.90 per hour) for meetings.

To express interest in joining the steering group, please get in touch.