The Generate Network

14/11/2025

All morning and afternoon workshop requests have now been finalised ahead of the festival!

The final preparations are underway and we couldn't be more excited for 27th! 🙌

13/11/2025

We're pleased to announce the full line up for the Generate Festival Showcase! 🥁🥁🥁

Movement for All will be sharing their most recent screendance 'Are You Dancing? Are You Asking?'

Sky Mirror Dance are showcasing live work choreographed by Kayla Dougan Bowtell

Moving Together will also share live work by Laura Bryan

Nottingham Playhouse Encore Dance have worked with Jo Petch Shrimpton to create their work in progress sharing

50+ Contemporary Dance Sheffield have reworked their Arts Council funded piece 'THE FALLEN'

Plus we'll also debut the Generate Residency screendance 'An I Away From Science'

We are so thrilled to be able to showcase the best older adult dance work in the region and we're privileged to be joined by such wonderful companies, choreographers and dancers!

07/11/2025

Announcing the last in our series of workshop leaders... Laura Bryan from Moving Together, Leicester 🥳

Laura will be leading our Big Boogie morning warm up! She is Practitioner Lead with Moving Together and she is passionate about creating community and making healthy, happy spaces to move in — whether that’s through the Keep Moving Collective for adults who love creative dance and performing, or the Adult Keep Moving classes across the East Midlands where the focus is fun, wellbeing and feeling good through movement.

Laura has been a dancer her whole life, teaching during the week and performing (and even fire breathing!) at the weekends — living the best of both worlds. She trained in Contemporary dance at De Montfort University, graduating with first-class honours before completing her Masters Degree in Digital Art, where she explored the relationship between AI and dance film. After finding school and academia tough, dance has always been her superpower — and it’s never let her down.

The warm up will start with a fun icebreaker game to get everyone connected. Then it’s straight into movement powered by absolute bangers to wake us all up for the day! She'll be leading simple, feel-good repetitive routines that are great for both body and mind — energising, uplifting, and guaranteed to make you smile. Expect some low-impact cardio to get the blood flowing, with plenty of stretching woven in so you feel ready to dive into the festival!

05/11/2025

30/10/2025

Next up in our line up announcement is Seraina Dejaco 🥳 Fabric Nottingham have very kindly opened up Seraina's regular mat pilates session for Generate Festival attendees during the afternoon slot!

Seraina (she/her) is a dance artist based in Nottingham. She recently performed for Purple Theatre and choreographer Kerryn Wise. Seraina was a member of Daghdha Dance Company and among many others performed for Nicola Conibere, Ian Doland’s Dirtmarket and Amy Pickler. She worked with Gecko to support their Wedding tour. Seraina has been awarded the danceWEB scholarship and the Culture Award of Thurgau/Switzerland. She has become more and more interested in developing her own practice which draws from her extensive movement experience, studying and teaching Pilates and dance to a diverse range of people. She qualified as a Pilates teacher in 2015 and is currently studying with Dance to Health to be a Postural Stability Instructor.

This pilates class will allow time and space to find your alignment, feel centred and energised and is suitable for all.

17/10/2025

Next up in our announcement line up is...Tina Carter!

Tina's teaching practice has spanned 20 years with the last few being nurtured in community settings with people of all ages. She is interested in sharing the joy of dance and her workshops aim to provide opportunities to connect, celebrate, grow, and groove.

Tina's workshop at the Generate Festival will explore global dance, including elements of West-African, North-African folk, Salsa, and Bhangra. Come and move to global grooves!

16/10/2025

This year's Generate Festival is now SOLD OUT! 🙌

A huge thank you to everyone who's bought a ticket and will be joining us in November for a packed day of workshops, talks and showcases!

09/10/2025

Up next on our workshop facilitator announcements is...Siobhan Hayes!

Siobhan is a Midlands based dance teacher and choreographer, specialising in inclusive dance.

As a choreographer Siobhan has received commissions from a number of companies including: Birmingham Hippodrome; Shropshire Inclusive Dance Company; Anjali Dance Company and Stopgap Dance Company. Siobhan also enjoys opportunities to collaborate with community groups and has choreographed a number of community commissions, most recently, pieces for Nottingham based Sky Mirror Dance.

Siobhan teaches across the Midlands in a variety of settings including: Birmingham CAT; EMDAN open class; Anjali Dance Company and FABRIC. Siobhan is a Level 1 Franklin Method™ Educator and uses this training combined with a variety of dance styles to inform her professional practice.

From 2013-2021 Siobhan worked as Assistant Artistic Director for Stopgap Dance Company. Here she collaborated on a number of projects including: The Seafarers, Paralymic Torch Ceremony, The Enormous Room and Frock. In 2015/2016 Siobhan performed and co-choreographed Crossing Borders this piece then went on tour both nationally and internationally throughout 2016. Siobhan was interim Co-Artistic Director of Stopgap in 2018 (maternity cover) and from 2018-2021 Siobhan was the Artistic Lead for Sg2: designing, leading and teaching the course for Stopgap’s apprentice dancers.

Siobhan's workshop will be a contemporary style which weaves in her extensive inclusive and community practice

03/10/2025

Introducing our next artist who will be leading a workshop at this year's festival... Kim Bormann!

There is more information about Kim and her practice below, she is leading one of our morning workshops, attendees have a choice between 3 different options. Keep an eye out announcements in the weeks to follow!

Kim is a German-Chinese movement artist. She completed her BA and MA in Germany moved to the UK to undertake further dance training and graduated with a PGCert in Physical Theatre (JV) | Royal Holloway, University of London.

She has subsequently gained a wealth of experience, teaching, performing, and directing, developing principles for a holistic approach to spark creative potential. Her interest and research into Taoist ideas deepens her somatic understanding and evolving practice of ‘Circular Dynamics’ and process of ‘mapping | self in context’.

Inspired by movement itself CircularDynamics is an open movement exploration that seeks to guide participants dynamically, highlighting possibilities for the moving, dancing, imagining body, whilst seeking lightness and playfulness, transforming limitations into new potential.

Guided through voice and music, this session allows you to explore your personal movement language, whilst working together in a safe environment, journeying through spatial settings and working with objects to enrich our conversational bodies.

01/10/2025

Almost half of the tickets for this year's Generate Festival have been SOLD!

A huge thank you to everyone who has secured their spot at the day so far 🤗 tickets will remain on sale until 31st October so grab yours whilst you still can!

https://www.tickettailor.com/events/generate2/1753862

26/09/2025

We're so pleased to make our first artist announcement for this year's Festival...

Gus Watcham will be joining us as keynote speaker! You can read more about Gus below and find out what she'll be talking about on the day!

Gus (she/her) trained at Rada and Camberwell College of Arts and worked for over twenty years in small scale theatre on the Fringe circuit and delivering outreach performances in rural and hard-to-reach areas. She was a member of Brighton based Three Score Dance Company from its inception in 2011 until 2022. Currently she’s writing a show on Red Riding Hood in old age, featuring half-truths and everyday objects

*Our dancing days: we’re here*
What eleven years as member of an elders’ dance company meant to me. And how the growing presence of ‘older people dancing’ now begins to question how we view dance, ageing and being people together in the world.

22/09/2025

We hope everyone has had a great summer!

We're now full steam ahead with planning and preparations for the second Generate Festival on Thursday 27th November!

If you haven't yet booked your ticket you can do so now using the link below

https://www.tickettailor.com/events/generate2/1753862

Keep an eye on this page over the coming weeks as we announce the workshop leaders and keynote speaker for the event as well as showcase news!

Generate Festival 2025 – FABRIC, Thu 27 Nov 2025 - Join us for the second year of the Generate Festival, celebrating older adults in dance across the East Midlands and beyond!  Due to the success of the first festival in 2024 we're delighted to be back at FABRIC, Nottingham for another year!  We...