Coming to Pegasus for the first time, Let’s All Dance is delighted to present this super treat for young audiences. If you go down to the woods today, you’re sure of a big surprise…...!

Combining classical ballet, physical theatre, gorgeous visuals and crystal-clear storytelling, this fresh, innovative dance company pitches another production perfectly to engage and enthrall all children, including those with special needs.

Our teddies would love you to join them as they eat, dance, play and have fun! Little ones can bring their own teddy, clap along and have their photo taken with the dancers!

And why not bring along your own picnic too?!

Running time: 30 mins + photo opportunity

Suitable for all, especially 0 – 8 years, children with special needs, families and nurseries

We’re collaborating with Dancin’ Oxford once again to bring you a stunning line-up of dance to celebrate the 12th year of Moving with the Times. This is a First Look at the works-in-progress, as we see four exciting dance companies workshop new pieces that are often explosive, moving, and thought-provoking. The final pieces will be presented on 3-4 March 2023.

This year our four featured artists/companies are Divija Melally, fuse collective, Vita Peach and CTC Dance Company.

Now in their 21st year, Cassa Pancho’s Ballet Black is excited to present award-winning choreographers, Will Tuckett and Mthuthuzeli November in a double bill of new and original work.

Will Tuckett's Then Or Now, originally created in 2020, blends classical ballet, music and the poetry of Adrienne Rich to ask the question: in times like these, where do we belong?

Mthuthuzeli November makes his third mainstage commission for the Company, Nina: By Whatever Means, a love letter to musician, performer and activist, Nina Simone, that combines ballet, jazz and the blues in a moving and inspiring piece of dance theatre.

Double Bill:

Then or Now:
Originally co-commissioned with the Barbican, London

Choreography: William Tuckett
Lighting: David Plater
Costume design: Yukiko Tsukamoto
Poetry: Adrienne Rich (1929-2012)
Music: Then Or Now - Variations on a theme by Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber (1644-1704)
Performer: Daniel Pioro
Poetry recordings: Hafsah Bashir, Natasha Gordon & Michael Shaeffer

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Nina: By Whatever Means
A Barbican co-commission

Choreography: Mthuthuzeli November
Lighting: David Plater
Costume design: Jessica Cabassa
Composers: Mandisi Dyantyis, Mthuthuzeli November, Nina Simone (1954-2002)
Featuring the voices of the Zolani Youth Choir

Join the next generation of artists from Rambert School of Ballet and Contemporary Dance for a performance like no other.

Platform offers students the freedom to develop their own ideas, push boundaries and find their own unique style.

Don’t miss this chance to see the choreographers of the future display all the creative flair and fearless imagination nurtured at Rambert School.

You are invited to the Makers Market at the Winter Pop-Up this Saturday!

Saturday’s programme is action packed and runs from 11am until late.

For alternative holiday gifts, check out the makers market on Saturday between 11am - 5pm. There will be around 20 local independent creatives selling an eclectic range of handmade goods. Running alongside the makers market between 12 - 5pm will be a series of drop-in workshops such as candle decorating, screen printing, pottery and sustainable gift wrapping.
All these workshops are family friendly and free of charge.

There will be food & drink from a number of community organisations such as traditional food by Damascus Rose Kitchen, Iraqi Women Art and War, The Parasol Project and Oxford Community Action. Enjoy a coffee by Meet Point and locally brewed beers from Bman and Big Scary Monsters. In the evening there will be live music and local band merch by Divine Schism!

Makers include:
Shaek Zaman - Amira Hasoon - BigMans Whittle Gifts - Bethan - Susanne Heinrich - Lindsay Arts&Crafs - Catriona Watson - Julia Mallaby - Harl Jones - Sergio Gutierrez - Claire Griggs - Kezia Batchelor - Oh Nice Prints - Louise Denham - Prana Yoga - Parasol Project - Hanna Stimpson and Big Scary Monsters Social Club!

The food vendors are local, community led projects. We will also have mulled wine & non-alcoholic mulled drinks too!

Fusion Arts has been working alongside BSM social club and divine schism to bring the WInter Pop-Up together.

Musical Youth Company of Oxford

Book by Marshall Brickman and Rick Elice
Music and Lyrics by Andrew Lippa
Based on Characters Created by Charles Addams

The eccentrically macabre Addams family are about to find life at their spooky mansion turned upside down by the nightmare that besets all parents of a teenager. As their daughter Wednesday reaches that special age, she has just one thing on her mind. Is it homicide? No! It’s love - with a boy from an all-American family.

Andrew Lippa’s (Big Fish, You’re a Good Man Charlie Brown) quirky musical take on the Addams family first premiered on Broadway in 2010 where it was nominated for two Tonys and eight Drama Desk awards.

Sure to shoot your socks off (with a crossbow!), The Addams Family is certain to captivate with the spellbinding talent of the award-winning Musical Youth Company of Oxford, as they let their inner goth loose!

A two-day performance organised and performed by Andrew Solway to celebrate his 66th Birthday - 66 dances in total - supported by an amazing group of dancers, musicians and other collaborators.

The event is at St Mary and St Nicholas Church, Littlemore, Oxford, Friday 2 and Saturday 3 December. The preformance runs from 9 am to 7 pm each day. Don't miss it! More info: https://www.facebook.com/events/41448793...

Tickets are free, but numbers are limited. You can donate on the door, or to my Just Giving page. All proceeds to Macmillan Cancer Research.

https://www.justgiving.com/page/andrew-s...

Body Politic & Dancin' Oxford invite you to a ‘hip-hopping’ daytime family disco for all the family!

Featuring a live DJ, party games, bubbles and as many disco lights as we can throw at it.

Join us on Saturday 3rd December, 4:00pm – 5:30pm at John Henry Newman Academy. Put on your dancing shoes, bring your little ones, and prepare to have the best disco ever!

£5 or pay what you can | YouMove families go free!

https://bodypoliticdance.com/classes/fam...

Body Politic & Dancin' Oxford invite you to a ‘hip-hopping’ daytime family disco for all the family!

Featuring a live DJ, party games, bubbles and as many disco lights as we can throw at it.

Join us on Saturday 3rd December, 2:00pm – 3:30pm at John Henry Newman Academy. Put on your dancing shoes, bring your little ones, and prepare to have the best disco ever!

£5 or pay what you can | YouMove families go free!

https://bodypoliticdance.com/classes/fam...