2012 Olympics: The Legacy Trust Programme
The West Midlands Legacy Trust programme, 'Moving Together', is
about bringing communities together from all backgrounds and
locations to celebrate the Olympic and Paralympic Games through
mass participation in sport and dance and in so doing persuade them
to get their own bodies moving. Moving Together' represents a
realisation of William Penny Brookes' and Pierre de Coubertin's
visions for the modern Olympic movement as a marriage of sport and
the arts. There are two strands of the programme – People
Dancing and Community Games
Latest Information .
Background Information on Worcestershire
2012 Legacy Trust Opportunities
Latest Information
Latest Update (Sept
1st 2009)
People Dancing
The first eight exciting commissions offer a fantastic mix of
dance activity both in terms of health and physical activity and
dance as an artform. Projects include:
- Blue Eyed Soul
Dance Company – Transformations:
A 3 year training programme which will support a group of emerging
dance artists to create a new generation of leaders for disability
and integrated dance. Shropshire based but region
wide.
- Birmingham Opera Company –
Othello: 200 young people from all backgrounds and areas
of Birmingham are invited to work with singers, artists and dances
to create a unique site specific performances of Othello
accompanied by Birmingham Opera Company Orchestra.
- Birmingham Royal Ballet – Birmingham,
Ballet & Me: Over an 18 month period young people will
create, rehearse and perform a new, full length ballet, inspired by
and running in parallel to a new major Birmingham Royal Ballet
production.
- Birmingham Town Hall & Symphony
Hall – Bollywood Steps: A large scale site specific
performance of Nutkhut’s Bollywood Steps, a unique British
Bollywood outdoor dance spectacle with performances on 9 and 10
October 09 in Victoria Square. Created and directed by Simmy Gupta,
Artistic Director of Nutkhut, Bollywood Steps invites members of
the public to participate at the performances. Inspired by London
2012 and recognised as part of the official London 2012 Cultural
Olympiad.
- Rosetta Life – Moving into
Being: A 3 year, region-wide programme to equip dance
leaders working in end of life care settings through training and
workshops to deliver dance activity in hospices and care homes for
patients, their families and carers.
- StreetGames – StreetCheer: A
3 year project aimed at getting 14 – 16 year old girls across the
region cheerleading. The project will roll out training to equip a
new generation of StreetCheer coaches and involve girls to
participate at cheerleading clubs on a weekly basis.
- Stoke on Trent City Council – World
of Dance: A dance participation project for all ages and
abilities. Over three years in Stoke, members of the public will be
encouraged to try out a range of dance art forms from Bhangra to
Tea Dance from Hip Hop to Belly Dancing from Baby Loves Disco to
Salsa.
- Warwick Arts Centre – Boys
Dance: An exciting 3 year programme, encouraging hundreds
of boys and young men to experience the challenge, exhilaration,
discipline and fun of making and sharing dance. The programme will
create a region-wide West Midlands Boys Dance Alliance to initiate,
develop and celebrate dance for boys and young men.
