Dance United’s mission is to release the positive potential within people who find themselves marginalised or whose potential remains, for whatever reason, unrecognised or unfulfilled.

Contemporary dance training and performance of the highest quality has the power to achieve this, but only when that potential is unleashed as a result of tightly-focused and highly disciplined artistic endeavour. No hiding places, no short-cuts, no excuses, Dance United have consistently seen how this uncompromising approach has changed the lives of young offenders, street children in Ethiopia, and people from across the divide in Berlin and Northern Ireland. We reach the hard-to-reach.

Under the banner ‘lives transformed through dance’ we are highly effective in four areas:

• We introduce people suffering educational, economic and social disadvantage to the power of contemporary dance
• We have a national reputation for uniting professional dancers and choreographers with those who have never danced before
• We train dance artists from all over the country to work intensively to high artistic standards with challenging groups of non-dancers
• We make broadcast quality films to communicate how and why it’s all worth it

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