Activate Annual Report 2013-2014

The first group of trailblazing women have been selected for a pioneering arts leadership programme, two of which will join Activate Performing Arts as part of their training.    Read more...

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In this short series, we hear from previous Dorset Youth Dance Company dancers about their experience with the Company. Read more...

Activate is the managing organisation of Dorset Youth Dance (DYD), an unincorporated organisation steered by a group of experts in the field. Read more...

Introducing Dorset Youth Dance’s short dance film, Tess. Created in partnership with Movers & Shakers, a company of mature dancers, the contemporary dance film with an intergenerational cast is inspired by Hardy’s literature and filmed in local landscapes. Choreographed and directed by DYD Artistic Director Claire Benson and filmed by local photographer and film artist Dan Tucker, Tess is performed Dorset Youth Dance Company and Movers and Shakers and was created and filmed in and just after the first lockdown of the Coronavirus pandemic. Read more...