Big Dance is back in 2013!
Following the UK’s biggest ever celebration of dance in 2012, you can keep dancing with friends and groups, at home and in the streets, in schools and workplaces with the Big Dance Pledge in 2013. Find out more!
Also this year, Big Zumba Dance has more to offer. Check out how you can make it part of your classes. Big Dance Shorts for Channel 4, in association with BAFTA will also be back. You can view the first round of Shorts from 2012 and find out more about the programme here.
Next year, Big Dance Week returns. Our dates are set, 5 – 13 July 2014. Save the dates and start planning - we'll be celebrating the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games across the UK with all types of dance, in all sorts of locations for everyone!
Big Dance 2012 was the UK's biggest ever celebration of dance.
Over 3,500 events took place all sorts of locations – lidos, shopping centres, parks, palaces, schools, high streets and squares – in all dance styles, as part of the London 2012 Festival, which was the culmination of the Cultural Olympiad. The story of 2012 and Big Dance in 2006, 2008 and 2010 are all captured at www.bigdancelegacy.com.
Big Dance is led by the Mayor of London and Foundation for Community Dance in partnership with Arts Council England, and a network of Big Dance Hubs.
Big Dance was initiated and led by the Mayor of London in 2006 and has taken previously taken place in 2008, 2010 and 2012.
