FRONTLINEdance

22/10/2025

Did you know Holding On is available for programming!

Holding On is a contemporary dance performance co-created with and performed by those who have lived experience of cancer, grief, loss and bereavement.

With music by composer and multi-instrumentalist Greg Hall, and featuring an intergenerational, inclusive cast, the performance weaves together dance and sound harmoniously.

"I felt very privileged to have experienced Holding On".

"It was a very meaningful experience, thought-provoking and very well performed".

Available Formats:
✨Holding On (30-minute live show)
✨Holding On (30-minutes online recording of live show)
✨Pop-up solos, duets and trios made for a variety of events
✨2 x Screendance films
✨Q & A's
✨Presentations & Talks
✨Workshops: themed-based movement sessions, making work around painful lived experience, exploring themes with children and young people
✨Residency - recreating the show with new community cast members

Venues:
The live show works well in both intimate settings and theatre spaces, with minimal tech set-up, meaning it is suitable for both theatres and non-traditional theatre spaces, including, but not limited to, community halls, schools, churches, chapels, cathedrals, arts centres, vacant shops, outdoors, and conference spaces.

Funders/Partners:
Seth's Legacy, Purple Rainbow Support Group, Keele University, University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust, NSCG Performing Arts, Arts Council England (FRONTLINEdance is an NPO)

For further information and for bookings, please contact:
rachael@frontlinedance.co.uk or call 07484 874335

Photos: https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.1209072591217959&type=3

Image Descriptions:
1. Two female dancers in a chapel, are seated on a wooden floor together. The female on the right with long dark hair has her arms around a female with short grey hair who is nested into her shoulder. They are both wearing soft cream coloured costumes. Top is the text "Holding On" and bottom left is the FRONTLINEdance logo.

2. A female dancer wearing a soft cream coloured costume is extending one leg forward as she extends an elbow to the side. To the left is the text "about" with more information about the show listed in the caption. She is in Keele Chapel.

20/10/2025

JUST 9 DAYS TO GO UNTIL BOOKING CLOSES! 20 tickets remain.

✨Booking closes at 10am, on Wednesday, 29th October 2025. EVENT 5th NOVEMBER 10am-4pm at NSCG N-U-L
✨REGISTER HERE: https://shorturl.at/3Z0ig

20/10/2025

👻Reminder! FRONTLINEdance HALLOWEEN PARTY👻

Thursday 23rd October 2025
Arrive at 5pm or from 5:45pm. Ends at 7:30pm
St John's Centre, Newcastle Road, Trent Vale, Stoke-on-Trent, ST4 6QD

Come and join us learn a halloween dance, games and a disco!

New to us and want to come along? Please fill out this registration form: https://forms.office.com/e/ngtTwbqkMz

We look forward to seeing you soon!

hello@frontlinedance.co.uk | 07356 072991 |

ID: illustrations of cobwebs and spiders hang down from the top above FRONTLINEdance logo. Then the text "Halloween Party, Thursday 23rd October 2025. 5pm - 7:30pm. Join us and learn a halloween dance, games and a disco. Come in fancy dress! New members welcome to join us - please register with us to attend! Friends and family welcome to come along as well."

17/10/2025

👻FRONTLINEdance HALLOWEEN PARTY👻

Thursday 23rd October 2025
5pm - 7:30pm
St John's Centre, Newcastle Road, Trent Vale, Stoke-on-Trent, ST4 6QD

Come and join us learn a halloween dance, games and a disco!

New to us and want to come along? Please fill out this registration form: https://forms.office.com/e/ngtTwbqkMz

We look forward to seeing you soon!

hello@frontlinedance.co.uk | 07356 072991 |

ID: illustrations of cobwebs and spiders hang down from the top above FRONTLINEdance logo. Then the text "Halloween Party, Thursday 23rd October 2025. 5pm - 7:30pm. Join us and learn a halloween dance, games and a disco. Come in fancy dress! New members welcome to join us - please register with us to attend! Friends and family welcome to come along as well."

15/10/2025

Thanks to Arts Council England as part of our National Portfolio activity, over the weekend, we will be launching three new artists' programmes. Each programme will have its own application process and offer a range of opportunities—paid, free, or for a small charge.

1. For artists who are also parent carers of disabled children and adults.

2. For emerging and established dDeaf, disabled, neurodivergent (dDDN) artists, including those with long-term health conditions (LTHC), to connect, create, reimagine, and reassert.

3. For artists wishing to work in health settings, both in hospitals and within the community.

We will also be restarting our network and steering group for local dDDN and LTHC artists.

Additionally, we will email venues a list of artists and companies with work made for a dDDN audience, to be shared between January and March, with access, inclusion, and equity training included.

Not on our radar, and you want be? Email rachael@frontlinedance.co.uk

15/10/2025

Reminder! You have 10 days left to fill out our experience survey if you want to work with us: https://forms.office.com/e/yPmpngr56t

Thanks to everyone who has already done this. It's proving to be a very encouraging, inclusive and productive way to recruit.

09/10/2025

Can someone in Stoke please bring these to our City!

https://youtu.be/mFl26WytLe4?si=BgucPWr9A8nUDJb3

Appetite Restoke claybody theatre The Portland Inn Project New Vic Theatre Regent Theatre and Victoria Hall Mitchell Arts Centre B-Arts Urban Wilderness CIC SOT Culture Stoke-on-Trent City Centre BID Kwanzaa Collective UK Asha North Staffordshire

Enjoy the videos and music that you love, upload original content and share it all with friends, family and the world on YouTube.

08/10/2025

REMINDER! Join us for: A Creative Approach to Health

FRONTLINEdance would like to invite you to join us for a special event aimed at making Stoke-on-Trent and North Staffordshire a place where people with chronic and long-term health conditions — including hospital patients — can easily access and enjoy the arts in inclusive, engaging, and meaningful ways.

We’re thrilled to welcome Rosetta Life, an Oxfordshire-based organisation known for its impactful work in hospitals and community settings, to co-host this event.

This gathering will bring together:

👉Local artists
👉Arts and health organisations
👉Educators
👉Hospitals and health bodies
👉Social prescribers
👉Funders
👉Third sector representatives

We can’t wait to explore how we can collaborate to make the arts in health care and community settings accessible to those with health conditions. Please invite anyone else you know who might be interested in attending.

✨When: Wednesday 5th November 2025
✨Time: 10am - 4pm (refreshments from 9:30am)
✨Where: NSCG, Performing Arts Building, Knutton Lane, Newcastle-under-Lyme. ST5 2GB
✨Access: BSL interpreter and Audio Description available on request at booking.
✨FREE - though donations are very welcome.
✨Booking closes at 10am, on Wednesday, 29th October 2025:
✨REGISTER HERE: https://shorturl.at/3Z0ig
✨Parking: Free parking is available in the student car park at NSCG.

About the day:
You will hear about the what, how, and why, ‘FRONTLINEdance' and 'Rosetta Life Arts' work influences the patient experience, how it supports staff wellbeing, aids rehabilitation, and brings joy, specifically to those at life-changing times of their lives.

The event will also feature:
- Two artist ambassadors from Rosetta Life Arts will share their stories and experiences.
- A practical workshop
- Discussions, provocations, and conversations
- Lunch - provided free of charge
- Films by both Companies
- Opportunity to network

Questions? Contact rachael@frontlinedance.co.uk
Thanks in advance for joining us. We look forward to welcoming you!

For those new to us, FRONTLINEdance is an artist-led company based in Stoke-on-Trent, placing disabled people and those with long-term health conditions at the core of our organisation as leaders, dancers, artists, and audiences. By co-creating and co-producing in community and healthcare settings, we can offer high-quality live performances, film and workshops that are relevant, inclusive, and engaging. Rachael Lines is, and has been the co-founder, Artistic Director and CEO, since 2001. She regularly makes dance work for hospitals and facilitates dance sessions for those with long-term health conditions, including cancer, brain injury, stroke, and those diagnosed with MS and Parkinson’s. https://frontlinedance.co.uk/

Rosetta Life are a community of artists, activists, and technologists with experience of life-altering health conditions and care. Together they co-design creative programmes and make artworks that drive social change. Lucinda Jarrett is the Creative Director of Rosetta Life. She is a writer, independent dance artist, and performance maker who co-founded Rosetta Life in 1997. https://rosettalife.org

VD: Rachael, our Artistic Director dancing with a lady who is lying down in a hospital bed. Both are smiling. 2: text image with information in post. 3. Lucinda Jarett's biography.

05/10/2025

FRONTINEdance friends, on Tuesday, 14 October, go and have your voices heard at the New Vic, and shape the future of the Big Feast and other Appetite events!

We want to hear from you!

All Appetite events are shaped by the people of Stoke-on-Trent and Newcastle-under-Lyme – and we’d love for you to be part of that. Our brilliant community meet up, have a brew, and share their thoughts to make sure our events truly reflect the place we live.

Join us for Brew & Review:
📅 Tuesday 14 October
🕐 1–3pm
📍 New Vic Theatre

We’ll be reflecting on this year’s Big Feast and looking ahead to 2026 – and we want your voice in the mix.

📩 Email Ruby at ruby@appetite.org.uk to book your place (and let us know any access or dietary needs).

Image description:
Four people are sat around a table, two of them have their backs to the camera and the other two are laughing. There are mugs on the table and they are in an indoor setting, suggesting they are chatting over a cup of tea.

03/10/2025

🎉 You're Invited to a FREE Arts & Health Event! A Creative Approach to Health: Co-designing high-quality, inclusive and engaging creative programmes and artworks.

📅 Date: Wednesday, 5th November 2025
🕒 Time: 10am–4pm (Refreshments from 9:30am)
📍 Location: NSCG, Performing Arts Building, Knutton Lane, Newcastle-under-Lyme, ST5 2GB
🎟️ Cost: FREE (Donations Welcome)
🚗 Parking: Free on-site
♿️ Access: BSL & Audio Description available on request
REGISTER: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1764337754719?aff=oddtdtcreator
📌 Booking closes: 10am, Wednesday 29th October

Join FRONTLINEdance for a special event to support Stoke-on-Trent and North Staffordshire to be a place where people with chronic and long-term health conditions — including hospital patients — can access and enjoy the arts in inclusive, engaging, and meaningful ways.

We’re thrilled to welcome Rosetta Life, an Oxfordshire-based organisation known for its impactful work in hospitals and community settings, to co-host this event.

This gathering will bring together:
• Local artists
• Arts and health organisations
• Educators
• Hospitals and health bodies
• Social prescribers
• Funders
• Third sector representatives

Questions? Contact Rachael@frontlinedance.co.uk

We look forward to welcoming you!

VD: Rachael, our Artistic Director dancing with a lady who is lying down in a hospital bed. Both are smiling.

Co-designing high-quality inclusive and engaging creative programmes and artworks.