Plymouth Dance

Plymouth Dance connects, creates, and celebrates dance in the city. Our mission is to engage people and communities within Plymouth with the transformational power of dance and to connect, create, and celebrate dance in Plymouth by delivering citywide partnership projects that use dance as a vehicle for individual, cultural, organisational, and social change.

Contacts details

Telephone number: 07818 518079

Email address: Send an email to:admin@plymouthdance.org.uk

Website address: https://www.plymouthdance.org.uk

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Why the community needs us

We create and deliver the most exciting, innovative, and accessible dance offer for our community. So many people don't have access to the transformational benefits of dance as part of their everyday life, such as the freedom to create and the opportunity to improve mental, physical, and emotional health and well-being while decreasing social isolation and exclusion. We know that it's vital that more people and communities have opportunities to watch, be part of, and perform dance.

Get involved

If you would like to learn to dance, there are a range of opportunities across the city to participate in classes and workshops in a variety of styles and at various levels of expertise. From after-school dance clubs to private dance schools and youth groups, children and young people can enjoy ballet, tap, jazz, bharata natyam, contemporary, and hip-hop dance.

If you enjoy social dancing, there are classes in ballroom, ceroc, salsa and tango, as well as adult ballet and tap classes. As a dance student, graduate, or professional dancer, there are workshops, master classes, intensive courses, and a range of other professional development opportunities.

Dancing in Plymouth

Plymouth hosts a range of high-quality performances from local, regional, national, and international dance companies across its five venues: the Barbican Theatre—Plymouth, Theatre 1 Roland Levinsky Building, Theatre Royal, The Pavilions, and the newest venue, The House.

The city also has a reputation for being involved in the production of touring work by renowned choreographers, including Matthew Bourne, Mark Baldwin, Wendy Houston, Adam Benjamin, and Hofesh Shechter. International companies, such as Alvin Ailey, NDT, and the Mark Morris Dance Company, visit Plymouth as one of the stops on their limited UK tours. Repeat visits by companies including Birmingham Royal Ballet, Rambert, and Tavaziva enable us to become familiar with and regularly enjoy their work.

Dance events such as Breakin' Convention, Diversity, Strictly Come Dancing, and the Plymouth MELA give us the opportunity to experience a wide range of dance styles.