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FRONTLINEdance
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FRONTLINEdance is an artist led company based in Stoke-on-Trent, placing disabled people and those with long-term health conditions at the core. #NPO 2023-26

www.frontlinedance.co.uk
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Artist Call Out!
Deadline 22nd December at 10am.

In January 2026, FRONTLINEdance is starting a new programme to support deaf, disabled and neurodivergent artists, creatives and media professionals, of all art forms.

More info here: shorturl.at/ImEOH
a group of seven artists in a room, more people in the background, looking at a cardboard sculpture by and with James Lake. A BSL interpreter is present.
December 10, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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✨TOMORROW✨
Join us IN PERSON at the Jenning Manning room at the Dudson Centre.

Pop in and watch a film, taking part in an inclusive and accessible creative workshop, joining in a conversation, or just listening to others.

No need to book, just turn up! More info: shorturl.at/pr3P8
December 3, 2025 at 9:57 AM
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✨TONIGHT✨
Join us online 5pm - 6pm.

We'll be sharing our two screen-dance films, with an introduction to the project as a whole and space to talk about the work afterwards.

Register here: shorturl.at/OPGsW
Two females are seated on a bench overlooking Middleport Lake in winter. They are wearing big winter coats and are looking over an icy, snow covered lake. Bottom left is the text "Wednesday". Above the image is the schedule for the session and how to register.
December 3, 2025 at 9:52 AM
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Tomorrow we'll be sharing a recording of a 30-minute live performance of Holding On ONLINE at 7pm . We'd love for you to join us!

Please visit this link for further information and to register: shorturl.at/pr3P8

#griefawarenessweek #sethslegacy
December 1, 2025 at 11:22 AM
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(2/2) There is no need to book for the sessions at the Dudson Centre, just turn up! For the ONLINE sharing’s please see the links to register below:

Tues: shorturl.at/ru02v
Wed: shorturl.at/JzA8J

Any questions, please email:
rachael@frontlinedance.co.uk or call 07484 874335

Here's the schedule:
November 28, 2025 at 10:35 AM
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(1/2) Reminder to join us next week for #GriefAwarenessWeek for a FREE Programme facilitated by FRONTLINEdance in partnership with @vaststaffs / Dudson Centre!

This event has been made possible by funding from @acemidlands.bsky.social and support from VAST / Dudson Centre. .
two female dancers are seated on a wooden floor together. The female on the right with long dark hair has her arms around a female with short grey hair who is nested into her shoulder. They are both wearing soft cream coloured costumes. Top is the text "Grief Awareness Week" and bottom left "2nd - 7th December 2025"
November 28, 2025 at 10:32 AM
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We've had such a busy November!

Big thank you to Rosetta Life, NSCG College, Newfriars College, Restoke, Fenton Town Hall, UHNM Charity, Arts Council England.

Plus! We’ve been busy developing our current offer, meeting with new partners to do this and recruiting!

.and November is not over yet!
November 20, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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Did you know Holding On is available for programming!
Holding On is a contemporary dance performance co-created with and performed by those who have lived experience of cancer, grief, loss and bereavement.

For further information and bookings contact:
rachael@frontlinedance.co.uk or 07484 874335
wo female dancers in a chapel, are seated on a wooden floor together. The female on the right with long dark hair has her arms around a female with short grey hair who is nested into her shoulder. They are both wearing soft cream coloured costumes. Top is the text "Holding On" and bottom left is the FRONTLINEdance logo. A female dancer wearing a soft cream coloured costume is extending one leg forward as she extends an elbow to the side. To the left is the text "about" with more information about the show listed in the caption. She is in Keele Chapel.
October 23, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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JUST 9 DAYS TO GO UNTIL BOOKING CLOSES!!!

✨Booking closes at 10am, on Wednesday, 29th October 2025. EVENT 5th NOVEMBER 10am-4pm at NSCG N-U-L
✨REGISTER HERE: shorturl.at/3Z0ig
October 20, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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👻FRONTLINEdance HALLOWEEN PARTY👻

Thursday 23rd October 2025
5pm - 7:30pm
St John's Centre, Newcastle Road, Trent Vale, Stoke-on-Trent, ST4 6QD

Come and join us learn a halloween dance, games and a disco!
New to us? Please fill out this registration form: forms.office.com/e/ngtTwbqkMz
llustrations of cobwebs and spiders hang down from the top above FRONTLINEdance logo. Then the text "Halloween Party, Thursday 23rd October 2025. 5pm - 7:30pm. Join us and learn a halloween dance, games and a disco. Come in fancy dress! New members welcome to join us - please register with us to attend! Friends and family welcome to come along as well."
October 17, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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You're Invited to a FREE Arts & Health Event! A Creative Approach to Health: Co-designing high-quality, inclusive & engaging creative programmes & artworks.

Wed 5th Nov 10am - 5pm
NSCG, Performing Arts Building, Newcastle-under-Lyme, ST5 2GB

FREE (Donations Welcome)

REGISTER: shorturl.at/3Z0ig
Rachael, our Artistic Director dancing with a lady who is lying down in a hospital bed. Both are smiling. You're Invited to a FREE Arts & Health Event! A Creative Approach to Health: Co-designing high-quality, inclusive and engaging creative programmes and artworks. Date: Wednesday, 5th November 2025 Time: 10am–4pm (Refreshments from 9:30am) Location: NSCG, Performing Arts Building, Knutton Lane, Newcastle-under-Lyme, ST5 2GB Cost: FREE (Donations Welcome) Parking: Free on-site Access: BSL & Audio Description available on request REGISTER: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1764337754719... Booking closes: 10am, Wednesday 29th October Join FRONTLINEdance for a special event to support Stoke-on-Trent and North Staffordshire to be a place where people with chronic and long-term health conditions — including hospital patients — can access and enjoy the arts in inclusive, engaging, and meaningful ways. We’re thrilled to welcome Rosetta Life, an Oxfordshire-based organisation known for its impactful work in hospitals and community settings, to co-host this event. This gathering will bring together: Local artists | Arts and health organisations | Educators | Hospitals and health bodies | Social prescribers | Funders | Third sector representatives Questions? Contact Rachael@frontlinedance.co.uk Lucinda’s skills lie in her abilities to drive performances that place underrepresented and unheard voices at the heart of ambitious professional arts projects with excellence at their heart. She has a lifelong interest in transforming and democratising the cultural landscape, providing access and participation to transformative creative experiences and providing audiences with the chance to shift their perceptions of what performance can offer. She is a visionary creative leader, skilled at leading large collaborative teams, bringing multidisciplinary art forms and cross disciplinary research interests to a shared agenda through performance arts. She is a skilled independent dance facilitator with strong experience in performance principles of co design and co production and co creation. Her dance practice is based on principles of improvisation, anatomical release and influenced by somatic practices and the art of touch based facilitation. She founded and has led Rosetta Life for 25 years. Rosetta Life is a performance arts in health innovation charity delivering high quality performance arts interventions, films and creative engagement campaigns to change the way we perceive the elderly, frail, disabled, and those who live with life limiting illnesses. She leads a permanent team of three with a larger network of associate artists - composers, musicians and dance artists who bring new work to audiences across the UK. Rosetta Life’s Stroke Odysseys project started as a dance project in a residency on the wards of the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery and has gone on to become a national programme, with performance companies based in Reading, Bristol, Buckinghamshire, Donegal and London. It is one of three interventions proven to improve patient health, that is being trialed among larger groups of people within NHS hospitals as part of SHAPER, the world’s largest study into the impact of arts in health, funded by Wellcome Trust.
October 8, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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Would you like to work with FRONTLINEdance?

We are asking those who want to work with us in a project management, company management, operations, producing, marketing, or senior leadership role, to fill in this form by 20th October: forms.office.com/e/yPmpngr56t
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October 8, 2025 at 8:37 AM
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The Explorers in Training!
Can you provide an audience for our wonderful advance training participants. We can perform in primary & special schools, early years settings, libraries, museums etc.

Available dates:
👉8th & 31st Oct
👉7th, 21st & 28th Nov

Contact rachael@frontlinedance.co.uk for info!
The Explorers in Training are doing are touching hands together in a high five as a handshake. A female is seated in a wheelchair, a male is kneeling and another male is standing as they smile at each other. The Explorers in training are wearing yellow and green costumes. A female in a wheelchair is looking through binoculars, whilst a male is standing and looking through his. A third dancer is standing behind the male dancer holding his elbows. The Explorers in Training and audience members are dancing with brightly coloured scarves. Multicoloured puzzle mats can be seen on the floor. a young audience member wearing ear defenders is smiling with a female crouched in front of them who we can see from behind. In the background audience members and The Explorers in Training are dancing with paintbrushes.
September 30, 2025 at 12:06 PM
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Big well done to our team who were performing at Royal Stoke Hospital yesterday with UHNM Charity on the neurology and stroke wards.

We're in all week until Thursday, bringing some music and movement across the hospital - if you see us, come and say hi!
five FRONTLINEdance staff (one male and four female) are standing in a line with their arms around one another smiling in the atrium at Royal Stoke Hospital. Behind them are banners for UNHM Charity Epic fund and large glass windows.
September 30, 2025 at 9:17 AM
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Thanks to our wonderful board for an enjoyable and productive board away day at Westport Lake on Saturday. Want to be at our next?
The deadline 8th Sept!
✨Chair of the board: frontlinedance.co.uk/news/join-ou...
✨Board Director Environmental Responsibility: frontlinedance.co.uk/news/join-ou...
Board directors are seated around a white table. Cups of coffee, paper and pens are on top of the table and all present are listening and looking thoughtful.
August 19, 2025 at 9:11 AM
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Some highlights from our Uproot Programme!

We were joined be B-Arts and costume designer Ilona to have a go at making and co-designing.

You can now BOOK YOUR FREE TICKETS for UPROOT on 28th August 2025! Tickets are limited due to the nature of the performance.

Book here: shorturl.at/HmKNb
Uproot participants are seated around a table looking at pictures of blue and white pottery. Uproot participants are standing and seated in a circle connected together either by holding hands, resting a head on a shoulder or touching each others shoulders. Uproot participants are standing in a circle connected together either by holding hands, resting a head on a shoulder or touching each others shoulders. Uproot participants are seated around a table looking at pictures of blue and white pottery with pieces of paper in front of them and coloured pencils.
August 18, 2025 at 12:47 PM
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Sneak peak of exploring the outside spaces at The Potteries Museum & Art Gallery last Thursday for our Uproot programme! Want to join in?
For more information please contact hello@frontlinedance.co.uk | 07356 072991
August 4, 2025 at 9:02 AM
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All set up for tomorrow's UPROOT programme! We can't wait!

New members register here: forms.office.com/e/pa6vjeAsab
FRONTLINEdance members register here: forms.office.com/e/AehcNBqupJ

For more information please contact hello@frontlinedance.co.uk | 07356 072991
July 30, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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4 DAYS LEFT TO APPLY!
We expect all those who work for FRONTINEdance to:
✨Champion
✨Share
✨Support
✨Advocate
✨Be Objective

Apply here: shorturl.at/fwgN1
Deadline 21st July
A group of FRONTLINEdance participants are standing and seated in a group in a light dance space. They are doing a thumbs up as they smile. Top left is the FRONTLINEdance logo and bottom right is the text "We're looking for an Executive Director and Co-CEO". Text: ✨CHAMPION and uphold FRONTLINEdance’s values and policies. Ensure inclusion and access are embedded and at the centre of all we do, then advocate this externally. The social model of disability initiates are methodology and decision-making. As does our lived experience. ✨SHARE our vision for Stoke-on-Trent and North Staffordshire to be a place where d/DEAF, disabled and neurodivergent people can enjoy arts and culture with ease and thrive as artists. ✨SUPPORT FRONTLINEdance to deliver with quality, an ambitious activity plan that embeds the Arts Council England shared Investment Principles and #LetsCreate strategy. ✨ADVOCATE for access and inclusion widely, and introduce FRONTLINEdance to potential supporters, partners, and investors. ✨BE OBJECTIVE with the ability to scrutinise and question decisions, planning and delivery. Sound like you? If you have the experience, dynamism and vision for a leadership role at FRONTLINEdance, we'd love to hear from you.
July 17, 2025 at 7:34 AM
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5 DAYS LEFT TO APPLY!

Reminder that we have a BSL interpreted video of our Executive Director and CoCEO overview: www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_UT...

Alternatively read: shorturl.at/fwgN1
Or listen: on.soundcloud.com/7mfqv7r6aUdj...

Deadline to Apply: Monday 21st July 2025
We’re Recruiting! Executive Director and Co-CEO | FRONTLINEdance
Following an organisational development review, FRONTLINEdance is delighted to announce the expansion of its team. This includes the creation of a new senior post of Executive Director and Co-CEO, whe...
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July 16, 2025 at 9:05 AM
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6 DAYS LEFT TO APPLY!

FRONTLINEdance is based in Stoke-on-Trent, here's a little bit more about our wonderful city and why you should come and join us:

Deadline to Apply: Monday 21st July 2025
Find out more here:https://shorturl.at/fwgN1
a south asian dancer wearing bright yellow sequinned sari and yellow flower headdress is smiling as she talks to FRONTLINEdance participants in pale yellow tshirts. Top left is the FRONTLINEdance logo and bottom right is the text "We're looking for an Executive Director and Co-CEO". Text: Information on Stoke-on-Trent Stoke-on-Trent is a unique city affectionately known as The Potteries. We are a creative city that makes beautiful things. It’s an area that is currently receiving major investment and as a result, new NPO’s, businesses, buildings, housing, and initiatives are increasing, ensuring the City’s vibrancy and stability grow. Stoke-on-Trent boasts a vibrant and diverse arts and culture scene, deeply rooted in its history of pottery and industrial heritage, with a strong emphasis on community engagement and creative placemaking. We have excellent grassroots and community arts engagement spanning music, ceramics, dance, theatre, spoken word, poetry, visual arts, photography and film. The city offers a mix of traditional and contemporary spaces and arts activities, with a wonderful host of green spaces. Key aspects of Stoke-on-Trent's arts and culture scene include: The Potteries Museum & Art Gallery, New Vic Theatre, Appetite, Kwanaza Collective, Restoke, Portland Inn Project, Claybody Theatre, B’Arts, PinC, AirSpace, The Gallery, British Ceramics Biennial, Victoria Hall, Regent Theatre, World of Wedgwood, Junction 15 Film Productions, Wheels in Motion, and a diverse range of independent artists and festivals. The Arts and Culture in the City, is supported by the City Council, SOT Bid Team, Stoke Creates and Made in Stoke. Stoke-on-Trent also boasts small to big charities with whom we work with and alongside: Vast, UHNM Charity, Staffordshire Sightloss, Deaflinks, DEAFvibes, Dougie Mac / Donna Louise, ABLE stoke, Life Works, Saltbox, Beth Johnson Foundation. Stoke on Trent is also home to Staffordshire University and Keele University. It is located in the centre of Staffordshire, Shropshire, Cheshire, and Derbyshire.
July 15, 2025 at 8:48 AM
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One week left to apply to be our new Executive Director and Co-CEO!

The audio version of our job description and person specification can be found over on our soundcloud here: on.soundcloud.com/WNoabmc6FVMx...

Deadline: Mon 21st July
Written versions here: frontlinedance.co.uk/news/were-re...
Rachael (Artistic Director), wearing a blue tshirt, is seated on a chair in a community hall extending one leg forwards and reaching her arms out in a L shape as she smiles. Beside her, an older female is standing and doing the same movement. An arm of a male is just seen at the front. Top left is the FRONTLINEdance logo and bottom is the text "We're looking for an Executive Director and Co-CEO".
July 14, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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BREAKTHROU' Families at the end of June enjoying another Saturday morning dancing, connecting and enjoying!
Thank you @sportengland.bsky.social for last years funding and @artscouncilengland.bsky.social for funding us as a NPO (23-27)
#AceSupported #sportengland #AccessibleDance
Breakthrou families participants are seated around big white tables in a open atrium space. They are mostly seated in wheelchairs and on chairs with some standing. All are smiling and looking towards the camera. Breakthrou families participants are in a circle formation doing a sensory warm up - brushing and rubbing shoulders and arms. Parents and carers are standing next to or beside their participants in wheelchairs and pushchairs. They are in a hall space with a green floor. Breakthrou families participants are in a hall space with a green. Parents and carers are standing next to or kneeling infront of their participants in wheelchairs and pushchairs talking and interacting with one another. Breakthrou families participants are in a hall space with a green and are close together in a group reaching arms into the centre of the circle. Some participants are standing and helping those in wheelchairs to reach their arms forwards.
July 7, 2025 at 10:27 AM
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FRONTLINEdance is recruiting!
We're looking for an Executive Director and Co-CEO.

Visit our website for more information: frontlinedance.co.uk/news/were-re...

Information sharing sessions online: Monday 7th Jul at 6:30pm and Friday 18th Jul at 12pm.
Email hello@frontlinedance.co.uk for the link.
Charlotte, wearing a purple top and black bottoms, hangs upside down on a handrail outside a great concrete building. She is looking to the side. Text: We're looking for an Executive Director and Co-CEO also sits in purple at the body of the image.
July 3, 2025 at 3:53 PM
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🙌 Happy to share that the feature on FRONTLINEdance is now up on the Happiful website too! 🙌

Check out the Community corner: Meet the group offering accessible dance classes here: happiful.com/community-co...
a screenshot of a digital article with the title "Community Corner: Meet the group offering accessible dance classes." Below is an image of two female dancers, one standing and one using a wheelchair holding hands to make a circle and looking through the middle. Behind to the left, another two female dancers are hugging.
June 27, 2025 at 3:33 PM