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
Dance is a collaborative experience and as such, we are particularly affected by having to be apart from one another right now. We made the decision back in March to temporarily close our building and suspend provision of our services. Three months later, and with the gradual easing of lockdown, we would like to update
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
Working with SLiCE we collaborated on a project to encourage reluctant readers to visit the library and discover reading for pleasure. The project was based in Brierfield Library with children from Lomeshaye Primary School, where English is an additional language and who were known ‘reluctant readers’. How did Dance overcome their barriers? Over the course