In this challenging funding climate we need your help more than ever to make amazing projects like STRIDE 2012 happen.

We are very excited that this year STRIDE have been invited to perform at the opening ceremony of the Bury International Youth Sports Festival

We are trying to raise £1,940 to cover the transport costs for the groups getting to and from intensive on-site rehearsals and the event itself and we only have 21 DAYS to do so STRIDE is and continues to be a 100% subsidised project so of no cost to participants, ensuring no restrictions due to economic background and circumstances.

Please support this year’s STRIDE – A FREE dance project for young men across Greater Manchester by going to our Please Fund Us page below and making a pledge.

Please click HERE to read more or to make a pledge

Just a little can go a long way, and there are a range of perks that you can get for donating more, from signed Company Chameleon goodies to invitations to the opening party of Urban Moves International Dance Festival for you and a guest!

Go on…make a difference to the young men of Greater Manchester today, pledge what you can afford, grab yourself one of our perks, as well as the feel-good factor knowing that YOU have made a difference thrown in for FREE

We’re excited about our microfestival Turn, presented in partnership with hÅb, Contact and Live at LICA starting Thursday 3rd May 2012 in it’s new home Contact theatre, Oxford Road!

Bursting into life for its fourth outing, Turn 2012 showcases the region’s most exciting dance-makers. See below for full programming details…

THU 3 MAY: TURN 2012 NIGHT 1

Levantes Dance Theatre (R&D)
Jennifer Hale: Taciturn:A Turn or Two
Maelstrom Dance: BALLAST
Company Fierce Academy 1 (one on one performance)
Rachel Rimmer, Lisa Osborne-Kendall & Andrew Piekarczyk: Chase/Conversation (dance films)

FRI 4 MAY: TURN 2012 NIGHT 2

Emma Lansley & Eve Stainton: Better Because I Wear Vintage
Katherine Hollinson: Fantasy
Leentje Van de Cruys & Tine Feys: Going to the Chapel
Joseph Lau: Solo Study
Sarah Ojapah: And Behold…
The dangerologists Work Songs
Hannah Buckley and Dwayne Antony Simms: A Conversation (Part 1)
Ellen Turner:Car-door moment
Rachel Rimmer, Lisa Osborne-Kendall & Andrew Piekarczyk: Chase/Conversation (dance films)

SAT 5 MAY: TURN 2012 NIGHT 3

Kate Jackson Projects: Solo
Le Petit Mort II
dt.ellipsis: It started with a riff
Joshua Hubbard: Juan Loco
Mixed Movement
Company Fierce Academy 1 (one on one performance)
Rachel Rimmer, Lisa Osborne-Kendall & Andrew Piekarczyk: Chase/Conversation (dance films)

Tickets are still available Call Contact’s Box Office on: 0161 274 0600

See you there!
DiGM

Stride Promo 2011 from Dance Initiative on Vimeo.

Free STRIDE workshops are now taking place in Bury, Bolton, Manchester, Oldham, Rochdale, Stockport, Tameside and Wigan. For more information visit the Events & Projects section of our website and select Stride from the drop down menu!