The Generate Network

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! 🙌

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!