On the 24th October we started the first residency of the new year of NYDC. Cohort 12, 32 dancers from across the country. Working with our 2023/24 Guest Artistic Director Oona Doherty. Over 4 days in Ipswich the dancers and team got to know each other, danced together and spent time working out exactly who […]
Ever since I was young, I always knew being a dancer was a creative place for me to express how I thought, felt, even battling my inner saboteur. Whether it was on stage or even behind it, the theatre was always an environment that I naturally gravitated towards. I never understood why I like theatre […]
NYDC has a lot of activity coming up the next few months of 2020 and we’d love for you to get involved. Have a look below for dates to save in your diaries, and keep checking our pages as more info gets announced soon: SEPTEMBER: There will be 2 short taster workshops (26 Sep & 28 […]
It’s 7:45, a sunny morning in Ipswich. I’m in a room full of bleary-eyed people my age, with a damp cloth in hand, listening to soft chatter filling the room and watching bodies shuttle back and forth across the floor wiping it clean. No, I’m not describing a morning clear up after a wild party. […]
Going into the April residency I undoubtedly didn’t know what to expect. No packing was needed, as this was the National Youth Dance Company’s first digital residency! Although we couldn’t be together in person, Zoom has become our best friend, and home these past two weeks. It allowed us to see each other’s faces and […]
March 25, 2020 To our NYDC family and friends, As the country’s flagship youth dance company, we bring together dancers from across the country to create and perform. So it is with a heavy heart that we have decided to postpone our activity for at least 12 weeks to help contain the coronavirus pandemic. This includes […]
The company will begin creating a new commission with Russell Maliphant in autumn 2019. He takes over from current Guest Artistic Director, the Olivier award-winning dance artist Botis Seva whose work for NYDC, MADHEAD, premiered at DanceEast in Ipswich on 20 April. MADHEAD tours to six further venues across England this summer, closing at Sadler’s Wells on 19 […]
“It’s just a massive privilege,” says choreographer Botis Seva on his recent Olivier Award win. His talent was spotted early through his participation in Breakin’ Convention’s artist development programmes; it was here he was introduced to our wider artist development team, and later invited to curate an evening in the Lilian Baylis Studio. This led to Sadler’s […]
Seva takes over from the current Guest Artistic Director, Sadler’s Wells’ Associate Artist Sharon Eyal. Used To Be Blonde, Eyal’s production for National Youth Dance Company, premiered to critical acclaim at Sadler’s Wells earlier this month and is touring across England this summer. Botis Seva is a dance artist, choreographer and director working within the […]
Where from/area: I live in Bleasdale, near to Garstang, Preston. Former schools/places of study: At the moment, I study A Level’s in Dance, English Literature, French and History at Runshaw College, Leyland and before that I went to St. Cecilia’s RC High School in Longridge. Please tell us a bit about what age […]