Take a look at our latest Annual Review for 2024-25.

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The year brought many highlights and despite the difficult fundraising climate a significant moment in Yorkshire Dance’s history was achieved with the repair of the roof, as Creative Director Hannah Robertshaw explains:

“This year Yorkshire Dance celebrated its commitment to inclusive, life-affirming dance through a range of programmes, including ongoing intergenerational performance work with Company of People at Leeds Art Gallery and an international re-staging of Katja Heitmann’s CORPUS as part of Boulevard Festival in the Netherlands.

Our highly successful Ageless Festival in July, united 1,295 attendees across a programme of workshops, talks, performances and film screenings which invited audiences to reimagine ageing.

In Leeds and Bradford, our Dance On programme engaged 538 older adults and received a special commission from Bradford 2025, UK City of Culture, to create a site-specific outdoor dance performance, bringing together older women from across the Bradford District.

We supported 2,254 hours of artist development space, hosted 18 guest artist performance events and continued our partnership on Talent Development North to support artists with a learning disability or who are autistic to develop their dance practice.

We continued to champion the work of children and young people through our Saturday Superstars Programme, Youth Dance Company and our annual festival, FRESH, which this year brought over 250 young people together to perform at Bradford Alhambra Theatre.

Amid our artistic achievements, we marked a significant moment in Yorkshire Dance’s history, with the completion of necessary roof repairs, ensuring the charity can move forward with capital ambitions to redevelop the Yorkshire Dance building.”

Image: How to Change the World by Doing Nothing by Fevered Sleep & Company of People, Ageless 2024 © David Lindsay