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Dance Summer School  2024 will take place Monday 29 July – Friday 9 August at the Laban Building.

Our exceptional range of classes is delivered by innovative companies and artists and are subject to change.

 

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A dancer is seen from the waist up, standing with her arms raised at right angles with fists. She is at the front of a group of dancers who can be seen in the background in the same pose.

Boy Blue

Founded in London in 2001, Boy Blue is the award-winning brainchild of composer Michael ‘Mikey J’ Asante MBE and choreographer Kenrick ‘H2O’ Sandy MBE. Weaving stage and screen work around the elevation of hip-hop culture, Boy Blue have created works including Pied Piper (2007), The Five & The Prophecy of Prana (2013), Blak Whyte Gray (2017), Outliers (2018), REDD (2019), and Free Your Mind (2023) with Aviva Studios. Film work includes R.E.B.E.L, and Emancipation of Expressionism, a set work of the GCSE Dance syllabus. Boy Blue run a highly respected dance training programme in East London and teach, train and mentor throughout the UK and internationally.

Boy Blue classes will be led by company artists.

Photo credit: Nicole Guarino, Show: Project Rebel Film 2018.

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New Adventures

New Adventures is an iconic and ground-breaking dance-theatre company. Since 1987, it has been known for creating works that have altered the public perception of what is possible when it comes to telling stories without words. The company is led by celebrated choreographer and director, Sir Matthew Bourne. New Adventures has become the most successful and busiest dance company in the UK and is a major exporter of British dance across the world.

New Adventures classes will be led by company artists Ashley Shaw and Dominic North.

Photo Credit: Johan Persson