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PREMIERE: Celebrating 25 Years of National Youth Dance Wales

National Youth Dance Wales is Celebrating 25 incredible years of providing dance opportunities for young Welsh dancers and artists from across the nation. To celebrate they have created a short documentary to mark the occasion. Since 2000, NYDW has supported hundreds of young dancers, helping them realise their potential and develop their dance abilities, creative […]

PREMIERE TRAILER: 25 Years of National Youth Dance Wales

Online Documentary Premiere Join us for the online premiere of National Youth Dance Wales: 25 Years of NYDW, a short documentary celebrating a quarter-century of young talent, artistic excellence, and national impact, filmed by On Par Productions. Marking 25 years of National Youth Dance Wales, the film reflects on the organisation’s journey and the dancers, […]

Your Stage Awaits: National Youth Dance Wales 2026 Auditions Now Open!

Your Stage Awaits: National Youth Dance Wales 2026 Auditions Now Open! Wales’ most dynamic youth dance opportunity returns – bigger, bolder, and more ambitious than ever. National Youth Dance Wales (NYDW) is calling on young dancers from every corner of Wales to step into the spotlight as auditions for the 2026 company officially open. This […]

QueerAF Partnership: How Wales Does Ballroom Right

I first stumbled into Ballroom as a queer teenager from the Welsh valleys who’d spent years being bullied. The scene in Cardiff was the first place where I didn’t have to hide. I found a community that moved with purpose and taught newcomers to honour the Black and Latinx trans women who built Ballroom long […]

Creu Cymru

Creu Cymru logo

Creu Cymru champions Wales’ vibrant sector of performing arts; connecting people, audiences and communities. Our membership forms a collaborative network; with a strengthened and unified voice that we project and advocate on behalf of to public governing bodies, ensuring vital industry representation and influencing positive change. Creu Cymru supports venues, companies and individuals in progressive […]

Aberration

LGBT+ events in Aberystwyth and on tour: cabaret, music, dance, film, spoken word, discussions, workshops and more. Organised by Ruth Fowler, Jane Hoy and Helen Sandler

Out of Sight

Vertical Dance Kate Lawrence in collaboration with Disability Arts Cymru and North Wales Society of the Blind present:

Out of Sight


A day-long event to explore creative approaches to access with and for visually impaired people at Pontio, Bangor.

  • Saturday 16 November
  • 10.30am – 5pm

  • Stiwdio / PL2 / Bocs Gwyn

  • Free event

The Queer Emporium

Shop and social enterprise in Cardiff that houses 20 small queer businesses and also hosts events!

DGIC/NYDW 2023 x Night People

Working with alumni, Daisy Belle Howell, NYDW members created two stunning pieces both performed, and filmed from various locations around Cardiff. Since becoming a member of NYDW, Daisy has gone on to work as a professional dancer and choreographer in Wales and beyond and is the co-director of Manchester based performance and events company, Night People.

DGIC/NYDW 2023 x Night People

Working with alumni, Daisy Belle Howell, NYDW members created two stunning pieces both performed, and filmed from various locations around Cardiff. Since becoming a member of NYDW, Daisy has gone on to work as a professional dancer and choreographer in Wales and beyond and is the co-director of Manchester based performance and events company, Night People.

Twenty Tales

Twenty Tales is a vision of movement and sound that transcends culture and generation. Twenty dancers unite in a collective experience to evoke human emotion through rich physicality that celebrates virtuosity, rhythms, dynamics and powerful music by the renewed composer Mercan Dede. The unique combination of contemporary, folk, and traditional dance makes this work timeless and deeply connected to ancestral roots.

Choreographer: Mario Bermúdez
Assistant Choreographer: Catherine Coury
Composer: Mercan Dede
Costume Design: George Hampton Wales
Lighting Design: Chris lllingworth
Producer: Jamie Jenkins

Rhwng Dwr ac Amser – Angharad Jones

Angharad Jones Rhwng Dwr ac Amser – Between Time and Water

2022 Live performance (dance)

Passing through time in the sunken garden at Plas Bodfa, these performances explore the relationship between time, water and the landscape. The water clocks are used to decide the length of each section of the performance.

As part of the Bodfa Continuum exhibition at Plas Bodfa
 9-24 April, 2022 History, storytelling and contemporary art collide in this fusion exhibition occupying the entirety of Plas Bodfa. This immersive exhibition exists in the space between fiction and non-fiction, real and imagined, yesterday and tomorrow.

Mae hanes adrodd straeon a chelf gyfoes yn gwrthdaro yn yr arddangosfa ymdoddedig hon sy’n meddiannu Plas Bodfa. Bydd yr arddangosfa ymdrwythol yn bodoli mewn gofod ffuglennol a ffeithiol, y gwirionedd a’r dychmygol, ddoe a heddiw.

More about the show : plasbodfa.com/bodfa-continuum

Life Strings Dance Film for Gypsy Maker 5

LifeStrings is a screendance film that investigates climate justice, violins and motherhood using a contemporary flamenco dance vocabulary. Reflecting on traditional Flamenco dance rhythms, techniques, gestures and modes of transmission, the work asks questions about what we copy and imitate and what we disrupt and let go of in terms of traditions. The film is using a choreographic lens to navigate cultural and generational trauma while also relying on the dancing body to reveal embodied histories and practices. The Romani Lautari musicians have a great tradition of violin playing, with virtuosos frequently embroidering their music with extreme amounts of ornamentation. Rosamaria Kostic Cisneros is a professional dancer, choreographer, curator and qualified teacher. She is also a Dance Historian and Critic, Roma Scholar, Flamenco Historian and Peace Activist. As a dance writer Cisneros makes regular contributions to Bachtrack Magazine and Flamenco News. She has also danced with Protein Dance Company in the UK.

AT HOME with National Dance Company Wales

NDCWALES: AT HOME

Round off the year with NDCWales at their home, the Dance House in Cardiff Bay.

An evening of three works, including the chance to discover NDCWales Artistic Director Matthew Robinson’s first work for the Company, No-Show and two hits from 2022, Ludo by Caroline Finn and Wild Thoughts by Andrea Costanzo Martini.

Romani Cultural & Arts Company

The Romani Cultural and Arts Company was formed in September 2009 as a not-for-profit company limited by guarantee and is a registered charity. Working through the arts the Company raises funds to take community development and educational projects onto Gypsy, Roma and Traveller sites and into Gorjer and ‘country-folk’ communities across Wales.   We are a […]

Wales Millennium Centre | Canolfan Mileniwm Cymru

We are a home for the arts in Wales, a cauldron of creativity for the nation. We fire imaginations by creating our own theatre productions, festivals and digital experiences – as well as curating world-class, critically acclaimed touring productions – from musical theatre and comedy to dance and cabaret. We kindle emerging talents with our own fresh, […]

Plethu: Affricerdd Connections

‘Plethu: affricerdd’ is a series of short films commissioned by NDCWales and Tŷ Cerdd fusing original music and dance from across Wales and giving platform to music artists of African descent.

This unique collaboration gives artists the chance to explore film-making as a new skill and medium for their combined artforms.

Connections’ shows different responses to living in the city of Cardiff.

Dancer, Idrissa Camara has set movements in response to music featuring energetic, percussive rhythms, bolon taps and field recordings of traffic taken near where Composer Eric Martin Kamosi lives in Cardiff.

What can be seen here is effected by what can be heard and seen in the Cardiff.

The listener is encouraged to take part in an experience of this environment.

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Composer, Film and edit: Eric Martin Kamosi

Choreographer, Dancer: Idrissa Camara

Danser Ensemble: Same Boat

Happy New Year! 🎉

To kick the new year off enjoy our final Wales/Senegal project piece, starting with some familiar solos, developing into duets, and a group finale (as featured in this year’s Festival of Voice – Gŵyl y Llais exhibition)

“Danser ensemble dans le même bateau avec de l’eau et du vent” is the representation of a series of online encounters between Wales 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 and Senegal 🇸🇳 based contemporary dance artists, during the autumn of 2021, exploring their dislocated connections by finding and creating shared vocabularies.

A Go Digital collaboration project supported by the British Council Wales, co-created in partnership by The Successors of the Mandingue (Wales) and Cie Fatou Cisse (Senegal)

Music by N’famady Kouyate 🎶
Dance artists in Senegal: Fatou Cisse, Alexandre Garcia, and Antoine Danfa
Dance artists in Wales: Dominika Rau, Shakeera Ahmun, Krystal Lowe, Matt Gough
Senegal camera – Mor Ndoye Ndiaye 📹
Wales camera and edit – Tim Short 🎞
with thanks to the Wales Millennium Centre – Canolfan Mileniwm Cymru in Cardiff and Le Grand Théâtre de Dakar in Senegal

For an audio description of the film (produced by Sightlines Audio Description Services) use the following links:

Cymraeg


English

Danser Ensemble: Matthew Gough

Last (but not least) to be introduced as part of our “Danser Ensemble…” Wales/Senegal 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇸🇳dance project is Matthew Gough. This Go Digital project is a partnership between The Successors of the Mandingue and CIE Fatou Cisse supported by British Council Wales. Here is Matt’s improvisation for the solo piece composed by N’famady Kouyate, filmed at the Wales Millenium Centre, Cardiff, by Tim Short. Photo credit: Luke Stanton.

Matthew Gough is a dance artist, and dramaturg, based in Cardiff. Their practice spans; improvisation, contemporary dance, screen dance, physical theatre, art in public spaces, and theatre for young audiences. Recent credits include: Green Man festival 2020 / The Place Spring Festival 2021 (Rewild: Dramaturgy), Eisteddfod Genedlaethol Cymru (Hwn yw fy Mrawd: Creative & Performer), Frân Wen (Llyfr Glas Nebo: Choreographer), and Theatr Iolo (Chwarae: Co-Creative & Performer). Matthew is a Senior Lecturer, and course leader at the University of South Wales.

Danser Ensemble: Fatou Cissé

Our final dance artist representing Senegal for our “Danser Ensemble…” Senegal/Wales collaborative dance project is Fatou Cissé. This Go Digital project is a partnership between The Successors of the Mandingue and CIE Fatou Cisse supported by British Council Wales. Here’s Fatou’s unique interpretation of the piece for solos composed by N’famady Kouyate, filmed at Le Grande Théâtre de Dakar in Senegal by Mor Ndoye Ndiaye.

Danser Ensemble: Dominika Rau

Next up from our “Danser Ensemble…” Wales/Senegal dance project is Dominika Rau This Go Digital project is a partnership between The Successors of the Mandingue and CIE Fatou Cissé supported by British Council Wales. Here is Dominika’s interpretation of the piece for solos composed by N’famady Kouyaté, filmed at Wales Millenium Centre, Cardiff, by Tim Short

Danser Ensemble: Antoine Danfa

The second Senegalese dancer we wish to introduce from our “Danser Ensemble…” project is Antoine Danfa. This Wales/Senegal online collaboration is a SSA Go Digital partnership with Cie Fatou Cisse supported by British Council Wales. Here Antoine performs a short piece to the same solo music composed by N’famady Kouyate. Camera work by Mor Ndoye Ndiaye at Le Grande Théâtre de Dakar in Senegal with a film edit from Tim Short

Danser Ensemble: Shakeera Ahmun

As part of our Wales/Senegal SSA Go Digital collaboration project ‘Danser Ensemble….’ (supported by the British Council) we would like to introduce each of the dancers involved and a small solo piece they performed as part of the project before we release the final film collaboration. First up is Shakeera Ahmun 💃with music by N’famady […]

The Successors of the Mandingue

The Successors of the Mandingue bring you an African interactive music experience and a cultural exchange of percussion, music, drumming, singing, storytelling, and dance.   Based in Cardiff, Wales, we build bridges between musical cultures; bringing artists, communities, and their ideas together. The company’s original influences and artistic practice being rooted in authentic West African […]

Gwnaed yng Nghymru | Made in Wales

Ballet Cymru is proud to present a triple bill of new work created in Wales by Welsh and Wales based choreographers. The company’s newly appointed Resident Choreographer, Marcus Jarrell Willis presents Isolated Pulses, created over lockdown in various states of social distancing and Covid measures. Marcus has performed with many companies including Alvin Ailey American […]

Ballet Cymru

Ballet Cymru is an international touring ballet company for Wales, committed to inclusion and innovation in dance and classical ballet, and to the highest standard of collaboration. The company produce original professional dance performances based in the ballet technique which tour nationally and internationally. Its extensive Access and Outreach programme is committed to breaking down barriers to accessing the arts.

Giselle

Critics’ Circle Award winning company, Ballet Cymru, present an extraordinary new ballet based on the eternal story of Giselle. Ballet Cymru have put their own unique stamp on this tale of love and loss, bringing relevance, poignancy and grittiness to this most romantic of ballets. Featuring a new score by acclaimed composer and harpist Catrin […]

Music Theatre Wales

Music Theatre Wales is changing the way opera and music theatre is made and perceived by addressing who makes it and who it is for: Reaching out to new and more diverse audiences; Responding to and reflecting society; Celebrating opera as a multidisciplinary form.

Pedr ac Ioan

*Note: This film includes some scenes of a sexual nature* A short film by Jonny Reed with sound by Peter Harding, to remember that LGBT people have always been here, and that there’s thousands of experiences and stories not included in history books. The Mas ar y Maes LGBT History Month programme is supported by […]