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

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