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The Dance Space

When it opens to the public, The Dance Space will be the South East’s vibrant new home for dance in the heart of Brighton & Hove. It will be a space where talented artists can explore, collaborate and create; a space where local people can discover and get involved in dance on their doorstep.

“The Dance Space will soon be a thriving home to dance and a visible demonstration of the excellent work that is already taking place.”
Hofesh Shechter, Choreographer and Ambassador for The Dance Space.

 “The Dance Space will create meeting points between local communities and great artists – particularly artists who take creative risks to find new ways of enticing more people to dance.”
Jamie Watton, Artistic Director/CEO South East Dance 2009-2018

 “Every great city needs a stadium, every great city needs a space to dance.”
Dick Knight, Life President of Brighton & Hove Albion FC

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What is The Dance Space?

Helping to breathe new life into a neglected part of Brighton & Hove, The Dance Space will offer a wide range of classes, community-led projects and performances from its three state-of-the-art studios and performance space.  There will also be an entire floor of rentable shared workspace for creative industry professionals, as well as a permanent home for South East Dance.

Who is The Dance Space for?

It’s a place for everyone to come together under one roof and celebrate the joy of dance. Since 2016, we’ve been working with the local community through The Welcome Project to create the kinds of dance activity they want to take part in. We want this relationship to continue in The Dance Space when it opens in 2021, as well as expanding out to people across the city and region.

What’s going to happen in The Dance Space?

Alongside the classes and performance programme, The Dance Space will allow us to provide residencies for professional dance artists and companies; and we’ll be able to commission more innovative dance projects and support new and exciting developments in choreographic creation and research. We want everyone to have the chance to experience the best dance made by the most talented artists; particularly artists who want to experiment with new ways of engaging more people with dance.

When will The Dance Space open?

We’re preparing to move into The Dance Space in Autumn 2020, when we’ll be working with partners and audiences to test the space. A full public opening is planned for early 2021 when we’ll be welcoming the city and the region to take part in an exciting programme of classes, workshops and performances designed to challenge perceptions of what dance is, what it can achieve and who it’s for.

Thanks to the incredible generosity of our supporters we have successfully raised more than 90% of the £6.6 million needed to make The Dance Space a reality. But we still need help to get us over that final line, and to fit the building out with the best possible facilities for artists and local people alike.

To find out more about how you can help us reach our target, please contact us at hello@southeastdance.org.uk. Or join our mailing list here to be among the first to find out about The Dance Space news.

How do I find out about hiring the studio spaces?

We are starting to take enquiries about hiring our state of the art studios for a testing period in Autumn 2020 before they fully open to the public in early 2021. See here for more information about the spaces.

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