Elli Chapman, has been appointed as the new Chief Executive Officer of Ludus Dance. Taking us into our next chapter, focusing on children and young people in the community, outdoors and online. Ludus Dance has been based in Lancaster for over 40 years. Established as a touring and performing company we were the first to

As we face another sustained national lockdown, we continue our work as a charity committed to the health and wellbeing of children and young people. The pandemic continues to be a great challenge for us all but this time we have already adapted, we have routines in place, we have lived with restrictions. We will

Why are you doing this? It costs a huge amount of time and money to run the Assembly Room studios and the costs are no longer sustainable and are inhibiting the work we can and want to do. The vast majority of our work and programmes take place outside of the building and we want

The Assembly Rooms have been a long and proud home to Ludus Dance since the 1980s. Our story, like any other is a journey and we are now preparing to move on. We have increasingly found our building a restriction to our aspirations, both financially and practically. The Coronavirus pandemic has put this into a

Ludus Dance announces changes to our organisation as we adapt to the changing world. Finding new steps and new moves to develop and nurture creativity; giving children and young people the opportunity to engage with art, inspiring them to create and empowering them to embrace change. The outgoing CEO, Anthony Briggs leaves us to explore new opportunities

Tik Tok… Tik Tok… The crocodile’s coming for us all! This weekend the clocks sprung forward. At a time when we are all longing to spring forward to another time without isolation, or fall back to a time without fear. You’re probably finding you’ve either got too much time, having had all your plans halted

We’ve nearly made it to the end of Week One of our whole new world – things have been changing and updating constantly and we’ve been busy behind the scenes testing tech and making plans for the future resilience of our organisation. We know these are challenging times and they are likely to be with

As a charity committed to the health and well being of children and young people, Ludus Dance have taken the decision to close our building temporarily and suspend provision of our services in light of advice from Public Health England.  We are in the process of contacting all class attendees, studio hire bookings, schools, artists,

Our State of Flux project works to overcome difficulties young people are facing about their identity, feelings and future, which have manifested in self harm, eating disorders and hearing voices. The project is funded by a grant from, BBC Children in Need and uses music, film and dance to develop a sense of self-worth, improve

We celebrated International Women’s Day with a free performance at Lancaster Library. I Plead Woman is a 20-minute contemporary dance solo created by Aline Costa, one of our associate artists on the Occupied scheme. In the piece, Aline searches for her identity within our complex society, navigating what it is to be a woman; battling and playing