Dancing Voices at Merchant City Festival

Posted: Tuesday 21 February 2012

Dancing Voices is a major new project led by Barrowland Ballet and in collaboration with the Southbank Centre that will bring together over a hundred older dancers as well as two choirs to perform a brand new work at the Merchant City Festival, Glasgow in July 2012.  

Dancing VoicesOlder People’s Groups and Clubs

Working with older people’s groups from Glasgow. These groups could be existing cultural social groups, walking clubs, Silver Surfers etc. They will have weekly workshops for 6 weeks during May, June and July 2012.

See ‘Tier 2 Advert’ by clicking here: Tier 2 Advert Dancing Voices Scotland advert

Older People’s Day Care and Residential Settings

Offering one-off workshops to older people’s groups based in residential settings to get a taster of the project. They will be invited to watch the performance at the Merchant City Festival as VIP guests.

Please see ‘Tier 3 Advert’ by clicking here: Tier 3 Advert Dancing Voices Scotland advert 1

The activity will be led by highly experienced dance artists. We are offering the project for free. To be involved you would need to:

  • Provide and manage a group of older people (aged 60+) who are able to commit to the project
  • Be available for the key dates
  • Provide a large warm space for the workshops to take place in
  • Provide a member of staff to be our key contact to liaise with

Please note that demand is normally high for this kind of project so please get in touch as soon as possible if you would like to be involved.

Key Dates:

  • Weekly sessions for older people’s groups and clubs start: w/c 28th May 2012.
  • One-off Workshop for older people in residential settings: dates between - June and July to be decided with the groups themselves.
  • Full group rehearsals: 3 days commitment the week commencing Monday 23rd July 2012.
  • Performance: w/c 23rd July 2012. The performance will last between 30 and 45 minutes.

If you would like to take part in this project please complete the Expression of Interest form here: Dancing Voices Expression of Interest Form Scotland and return it to emmakfcampbell@gmail.com by 9th March 2012. For more information ring Emma at Barrowland Ballet on 07850158643.


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