Our State of Flux programme works to overcome difficulties young people face with their identity, feelings and future, which have manifested in self harm, eating disorders and hearing voices. Funded by a grant from BBC Children in Need, the programme uses music, film and dance to develop a sense of self-worth, improve communication skills and

We are supporting Celia, in working towards her Gold Arts Award, here she shares her research, discussion and reflection on dance as a career. More than a Hobby Dance is an art form. Frequently seen as semi-professional, or as a hobby. In my opinion, a career in dance should be given the same value as

We’re celebrating International Day of Dance with our North West regional partners, Dance Consortia North West. Together we will be sharing and celebrating Dance Rising across the North West. You can see and share with us across social media on Thursday 29th April. Here are the project and image credits for the DCNW organisations included

We’re thrilled that Rachel is joining us for our festival weekend. Rachel is a second year One Dance UK Dance Ambassador. She co-designed/co-produced/co-hosted RISE 2021, volunteered for U.Dance Digital and U.Dance London 2020 and as well as helping us out this year, is supporting U.Dance South West.   Rachel is currently a dancer with Emergence

LYDC rehearsals will begin for 2021/22 next week – together in a real, actual space! More to come on that but for now we want to shout out Celia, whose time in LYDC has come to an end. We asked Celia to reflect on her time in LYDC. What was your highlight? Our filming weekend

We are delighted to announce that we have been chosen to deliver U.Dance North West 2021 in partnership with The Lowry. We have a wealth of experience and practice through our youth dance company, LYDC participating and performing at U.Dance and running our annual youth dance festival, Big Up North. This puts us in a

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