http://www.blueeyedsouldance.com A Pioneer in the Development of Inclusive Dance in the UK Tue, 03 Jan 2012 11:13:31 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The Blue Eyed Soul Dance office will be closed from Friday 23rd December 2011 until Tuesday 3rd January 2012.  We wish you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. http://www.blueeyedsouldance.com/christmas-and-new-year-opening-hours/ Aerial O a multi-art form creative project combined music, movement and aerial dance techniques for young people and adults with and without disabilities. The project was led by Scottish Opera working with Blue Eyed Soul Dance Company, Waterbaby Dance Ltd, Dirty Feet (Community dance group), Ashcraig School (Glasgow City Council’s only ... http://www.blueeyedsouldance.com/aerial-o-project-with-scottish-opera/ Dance Transformations: Developing Choreographers Symposium Wednesday 19th October 10am to 5pm The event is sold out – if you're not there in person you can follow the day online on Twitter following the hashtag #DanceT. Join in conversations afterwards on our social network www.dancetransformations.ning.com. http://www.blueeyedsouldance.com/follow-the-dance-transformations-symposium-online/ We’re back after the summer holidays and excited that it’s a new term and a new season.  We have lots of activity happening this Autumn. Our LIKE Youth Dance workshops start again with Envision in Telford on Sundays, starting on Sunday 25th September.  Have a look at our Calendar of ... http://www.blueeyedsouldance.com/new-season-news-at-blue-eyed-soul-dance/ Dance Transformations is looking for 9 committed and vibrant dancers for a fantastic opportunity to perform works by emerging disabled and non-disabled choreographers. Dance Transformations provides a unique programme which supports a group of emerging artists with a physical disability and/or sensory impairment and non-disabled dance artists to investigate dance making. Recruited ... http://www.blueeyedsouldance.com/call-for-9-dancers-to-perform-new-dance-works/ The staff and trustees of Blue Eyed Soul Dance Company have spent the past few weeks looking at the future of the Company's work in light of the loss of secure funding from Arts Council England from 2012. Whilst acknowledging the restrictions this imposes, we view this as an ... http://www.blueeyedsouldance.com/company-statement-on-future-work/ Blue Eyed Soul Dance Company is extremely disappointed at the decision of Arts Council England not to fund the Company as part of the National Portfolio. The quantity and quality of work delivered by the Company over the past 16 years has pioneered dance for disabled artists, won international acclaim ... http://www.blueeyedsouldance.com/funding-statement-national-portfolio/ It's been a packed year for LIKE Youth Dance with Short Breaks for Disabled Children funding in Shropshire and Telford giving Blue Eyed Soul Dance Company the opportunity to give a broader and more sustained programme of activity for young people aged 5-19. Some of the young people performed at Telford ... http://www.blueeyedsouldance.com/youth-dance-we-like-it/ [caption id="attachment_816" align="alignnone" width="150" caption="Epic Arts dancer flying in cocoon"][/caption] In August this year EPiC Arts from Cambodia visited Blue Eyed Soul in Shropshire for two days of exchange, research and fun. We spent time on the ropes, a new experience for EPiC dancers - one of whom had ... http://www.blueeyedsouldance.com/work-with-epic-arts-cambodia/ Its been a busy period for LIKE Youth Dance with Aerial dance workshops in Bishops Castle, a Digital Dance project in Shrewsbury, and Envision Dance Group Street/Contemporary mix off to a flying start for the Autumn Term. The aerial dance is continuing to be popular with all ages as a fun ... http://www.blueeyedsouldance.com/like-youth-dance-activity/