Dance

Oxford Youth Dance believes that dance is for everybody and celebrates young people’s individuality, creativity and love of dance. Children as young as 2 years old will be performing with their parents and Oxford Youth Dance Company will be guests for this event alongside older performing dancers who started their dancing with OYD.

The dancers will be exploring new worlds with their imaginations and bodies: What do you find when you turn a stone over? What is inside that cave behind the rolled bolder? Where is the lost j

This year’s special commission dance showcase will feature some of Oxford’s new and emerging artists creating specially created works for the Dancin’ Oxford 2012 festival. Following the huge success of the 2011 showcase, this is an opportunity for local artists to make something entirely new for the ever growing and enthusiastic audience that Dancin’ Oxford has generated over the years.

Visit the Oxford Dance Forum website for up to date news on the artists and the work in progress – www.odfonline.org.uk

Sunday 4 March workshop at 11am & 3pm, disco at 12pm & 4pm
Pegasus Funday Sunday- Baby Boogie

A unique and fun event for children under 4 years old and their families. Come along and boogie with your baby! There will also be a 45 minute workshop before the disco led by professional dance tutors to learn the moves you need – a chance to get creative with your toddler! A Dancin’ Oxford special from Pegasus and the Oxford Dance Forum.

Stay for lunch or tea and enjoy dance mats and socialising after the event.

Amarita Vargas and guests present an evening of intimate, pure flamenco packed with the energy and expression of the south of Spain. Following her residency in Jerez de la Frontera last year Amarita returns with new choreographies which evoke a range of feeling from the fiery and joyful to the dark and sombre.

Flamenco celebrates the intensity of the moment, and allows us to experience the totality of human experience with all its brilliance and shadows.

An evening of flamenco puro in the intimate cabaret-style setting of Pegasus.

The Sonia Sabri Company celebrate the unique, diverse energy of modern Britain by bringing together Indian Kathak dance’s grace and vigour with the rhythms & rhymes of Hip Hop culture. Complex classical rhythms converse with beatbox while the verbal dexterity of Kathak rap (Kavitt) sets layers on urban poetry.

Kathakbox does not ‘box in’ these genres to a particular time or place, but uncovers the raw spirit and heartbeat of each art form as it shivers between cultures.

The ball is held to raise funds for the Abingdon Arts Festival. Doors open 7.30pm with dancing from 8.00pm to "SWINGTIME" dance orchestra. Ticket prices include buffet supper. There will also be a grand raffle with prizes donated by local shops and businesses.