The Generate Network

12/03/2026

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A fabulous blog written by Frances 50+ Contemporary Dance Sheffield ❤️

People Dancing is the development organisation for community and participatory dance

11/03/2026

Call out for older professional contemporary dancers!

Would you describe yourself as an older professional contemporary dancer?
If so, you are most welcome to come along and join us at one, some or all of the classes listed below.

These classes are aimed at dancers who have worked professionally as performer, teacher, and/or choreographer – dancers who have technical training/skills in contemporary dance. You may still be working in that capacity or your professional life may be a distant memory but you would love to get back into the studio and rediscover your plié!

Class will follow the familiar pattern of warm up exercises, technique (Graham/Cunningham) and travelling phrases. Then we will move on to learning and developing a longer phrase in the style of Alston.

This is the beginning of a much bigger project designed to create opportunities for older professional dancers to be able to train, create and perform new works - to have the opportunity to persuade our older bodies to sustain or rediscover the physical, technical and artistic challenges of dance that continue to bring us joy!

Friday 20th March - Albany Theatre Coventry in the Courtyard Studio

Wednesday 1st April - The Dance Hub Studio Birmingham

Wednesday 8th April - The Dance Hub Studio Birmingham

Friday 17th April - Albany Theatre Coventry in the Courtyard Studio

Friday 8th May - Albany Theatre Coventry in the Courtyard Studio.

All classes take place 6:00 - 7:30pm.

For more information and to book a free place please contact Sarah Jackson on scaj@hotmail.co.uk

04/03/2026

Such a wonderful The Guardian article shared by one of the Generate Creatives 😁

As Angela Rippon’s Let’s Dance campaign aims to get the nation moving this week, older dancers share how they overcame nerves to relish the benefits

26/02/2026

All of the start of the year goings on are now detailed in our Spring newsletter 🤗

We hope you enjoy having a read through of all the activity for the first part of 2026 😁

There are some exciting announcements included in this Spring newsletter with information about all the goings on during the first half of the year as well as offerings from our friends and partners.

26/02/2026

We are so fortunate to be able to showcase 'An I Away From Science' at not one but two international older adult dance festivals this year! 🥳

Our screendance will be shown first at DanceEast HOST Festival in Ipswich on 5th May and Yorkshire Dance Ageless Festival in Leeds on 10th and 11th July 🙌

The Generate Creatives are looking forward to road tripping across the country this summer to meet and dance with lots of other older adults 🤗

26/02/2026

So pleased and proud to announce the Generate Creatives have received funding from the Abderrahim Crickmay Charitable Settlement to produce our newest project 'The Hollows' a site specific dance photography project in the caves of Nottingham 📸💃🌑

We are so grateful to the ACCS for believing in this idea and helping us bring it to life!

We start work in April collaborating with the fabulous David Wilson Clarke at the National Justice Museum with an exhibition at ILKON later in the year

12/02/2026

We're pleased that the Roots and Reels film festival will be showcasing 'An I Away From Science' on Wednesday 18th March at 7pm at Fabric Nottingham

The event is pay what you feel and there are some gorgeous short films on offer during the evening 😊

This screening will happen at FABRIC2 Dakeyne St NG3 2ARWelcome to our second screening of Roots & Reels - Nottingham ecology film festival!We have set out a call for Nottinghamshire-based people and projects using film as a medium to celebrate ecology, raise awareness and inspire climate action.......

18/12/2025

Dance in a Day workshops are back for 2026! 🥳

Join dancers 50+ at Fabric Nottingham on Tuesday 31st March 10am - 3pm for a whole day of dance! We'll start the morning with a release based contemporary class and move on to choreographing and creating our own dance during the afternoon 🤗

If you'd like to book a spot please email karla_jones@outlook.com the cost is £25 per dancer (capped at the 2024 price) 👍

I'm so looking forward to seeing lots of you there! 💕

12/12/2025

Our Winter/end of year newsletter is now live!

I hope everyone enjoys having a read through all the information included and you find it useful 🤗

I thought I would take the opportunity to welcome any new sign ups to the newsletter with a round up of the festival as well as sharing lots of information about all the wonderful contributors who are currently part of the network. I’d also like to wish everyone a restful and peaceful end of the y...

27/11/2025

Today's the day! 🤗🥳😍

We'll be sharing snippets of the festival on our stories all day so keep your eyes on our page!

Fabric Nottingham

20/11/2025

The Generate Festival 2025 is one week today! 🙌

Everything is prepped and ready to go and we can't wait to welcome everyone to Fabric Nottingham next week!

We'll be posting on our stories throughout the day so you can stay ahead of all the goings on if you didn't manage to get a ticket to our sold out event!

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! 🙌