DanceSyndrome

26/10/2025

🕺 👩‍🦼 💃 Just a reminder that you are welcome to join us for our weekly community dance sessions, in person or online.

Find out more about the different sessions at www.dancesyndrome.co.uk/book-a-session

24/10/2025

Are you looking for practical ways to make your classes more inclusive for people with learning disabilities?

Join us for Breaking Down Barriers on 10th November, a professional development focused online workshop for dance, arts and creative professionals.

Find out more: https://dancesyndrome.co.uk/breaking-down-barriers/

22/10/2025

In , we want to highlight how inclusion can make people feel more seen and heard.

At DanceSyndrome, we believe that everyone should have the opportunity to have a voice, to be seen, and to feel part of society. Through our unique co-delivery model, we bring people with and without disabilities together to learn from one another and to create spaces where everyone belongs.

Our Inclusion in Action and Breaking Down Barriers workshops share what we’ve learned about inclusive practice:
• 𝗜𝗻𝗰𝗹𝘂𝘀𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗶𝗻 𝗔𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 – helps businesses and organisations build more inclusive workplaces. These sessions are delivered on request, helping teams to think differently and create environments where everyone can thrive. Just contact our team for details.
• 𝗕𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗸𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗗𝗼𝘄𝗻 𝗕𝗮𝗿𝗿𝗶𝗲𝗿𝘀 – is designed for people working in dance and the wider arts to make their creative spaces more inclusive.

If you work in the arts or creative sector, join us online on Monday 10 November for Breaking Down Barriers and explore practical ways to embed inclusive practice. Find out more and book your place: https://dancesyndrome.co.uk/breaking-down-barriers/

Let’s work together to make inclusion happen, so that 𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙧𝙮𝙤𝙣𝙚 can feel visible and valued in society.

17/10/2025

Last Friday, our Co-founder Sue Blackwell was proud to receive the Lifetime Achievement Award at the Best Business Women Awards, accompanied by her son Anthony and daughter Jen (pictured). What an incredible accolade! You can read more about the award on the News page of our website: https://dancesyndrome.co.uk/lifetime-achievement-award/

16/10/2025

Everyone at DanceSyndrome is sending huge congratulations to our Dance Leader & Youth Role Model Ellie Bamber who has been chosen to be a part of NYDC's 2025/26 cohort! This is a huge achievement and we are all very proud. We can't wait to see the work that Ellie is involved with over the next 12 months!

15/10/2025

It's all smiles in our Ballet session today as we do some Barre work!

For anyone interested in joining one of our sessions, you can find the full list, including inclusive Ballet, on our website: www.dancesyndrome.co.uk/book-a-session

13/10/2025

DanceSyndrome representatives Lucy Burgess & Kate Battersby joined 12 other local dancers to create a special community cast performance to celebrate Ludus Dance's 50th anniversary. The piece was developed during a one-day workshop led by the Ludus team ahead of the celebration at The Dukes Theatre, Lancaster, on Friday 17th October.

It’s set to be a fantastic evening of dance and creativity celebrating 50 years of Ludus Dance. Tickets are still available via The Dukes, Lancaster: https://dukeslancaster.org/whats-on/theatre/ludus-dance-50th-anniversary-performance

11/10/2025

Huge congratulations to our Co-founder Sue Blackwell on winning the Lifetime Achievement Award at the Best Business Women Awards last night!

🌟 LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD 🌟

Congratulations to our Gold Winner Sue Blackwell DanceSyndrome

10/10/2025

Did you know that you can raise funds for DanceSyndrome while you shop (in-person and online), at no extra cost to you?

Find out more and sign up at: https://www.easyfundraising.org.uk/causes/dancesyndrome

09/10/2025

We’re grateful to Hillards Charitable Trust for their generous support. Their donation helps us continue offering accessible opportunities for people in Clitheroe to enjoy the health and wellbeing benefits of dance.

Our Everybody Dance workshops are co-produced and co-delivered by people with learning disabilities, showing the powerful contributions they make when supported by inclusive organisations like DanceSyndrome.

Thank you to Hillards Charitable Trust for recognising the value of our work.

A fabulous morning meeting the instructors, parents and carers and these dancing superstars! Thank you for making me so welcome.

07/10/2025

Strictly themed Latin Beats on Zoom - tonight at 6pm! 💃🧑‍🦼🕺