Folk Dance Remixed

22 August                          Big Lunch Aveley Recreation Ground  workshop
30 August                          Playfest Aldershot Maypole workshops
6 September                     River Cultures Festival Kingston upon Thames DJ Maypole workshops
19 September                   Common Ground The Core at Corby Cube DJ Ceilidh Jam
20 September                   Family Arts Festival Corby Ceilidh Jam Workshop
                                            Live Ceilidh Jam Worthing Assembly Hall Full Ceilidh Jam

Ceilidh – pronounced Kay-lee, it’s like  a barn dance, country dance, bush dance – it’s foot tappin’ hand clappin’ fun for ALL to join in the folky funky social dance!!

We’re heading out for a fabulous May weekend to start our 2025 season – hope to see some of you to welcome in the summer on May Day weekend!!

East London

Saturday 3rd May        Stepney City Farm May Day Festival Street dance the maypole workshops, in between sheep shearing – what a great day it’s going to be!

 

Rochester, Medway, Kent

Sunday 4th May      Rochester Sweeps Festival   Ceilidh Jam – YOUR chance to dance! Join us for a funky folky social dance to live music!

 

Camden, North London

Monday 5th May      Camden at 60: The BIG Street Party!     Excerpts for our family show Step Hop House, along with a Ceilidh Jam – foot tappin’ hand clappin’ fun for ALL to join in the folky funky social dance!!

Ceilidh – pronounced Kay-lee, it’s like  a barn dance, country dance, bush dance – it’s fun!

 

We’re out on tour this spring and summer with our fantastic company of talented dancers and musicians!! Look out for our show Step Hop House, Street Dance the Maypole workshops and fabulously funky folky Ceilidh Jams!!

And HOPE is never far from our thoughts as we work to get this wonderful show into the Great Outdoors. If you’re interested in supporting us in creating new work – get in touch!

We had a brilliant tour in 2023 – thanks to everyone who came to see the show,  joined in the workshops and Ceilidh Jams and supported us – was great to see you and dance with you all! And to all the festivals and events – what a wonderful bunch of people to work with! Enjoy the video below, taking a look back at our travels with our magnificent maypole with our fabulously talented company at some really super festivals and events!!

Team Folk Dance Remixed have spent the winter back round the kitchen table making plenty of plans and are now looking forward to springing into action in 2023 – keep an eye here and we’ll update you soon!

In the meantime, if you’d like to support us, here’s our virtual hat on the pavement/tip jar: https://www.paypal.me/FolkDanceRemixed

Stay safe, and be kind, love Natasha, Kerry and Frances xxx

Here’s our full company to wish you and yours a very happy festive season, and send you love and hope for 2022.

Our new show HOPE will be taking to the road in February. Come and find out all about it!

2022 dates so far…

6 Feb – (matinee) Cecil Sharp House

13 Feb – The Stables, Milton Keynes

16 Feb – The Point, Eastleigh

 

HOPE is our new show! It’s bubbling and jumping away in rehearsal at the moment and ready to burst right out at you on Saturday 20 November at Cecil Sharp House, London. Do come and experience it. We’re very excited!

Stronger than fear, fuelled with love, this is a defiantly joyous new show from Folk Dance Remixed, created in response to the challenging times we share. In it we take a 21st century look at the ancient story of Pandora’s Box, when all the evils of the world were unleashed and hope remained to protect and defend us all.

Live musicians and dancers explore wondrous realms with a stunning electronic soundscape, poetry and storytelling.

Bring with you your own hopes for the future; and get ready for bursts of colour, shoots of growth, branches of dreams and a riotous celebration of connectivity, interdependence and resilience, as we find our way back to hope from despair and co create a vision of a brighter future in which all our wildest dreams can come true.

“Hope” was conceived by Folk Dance |Remixed and Bernadette Russell in response to her brilliant new book “How To Be Hopeful”. “Hope” was commissioned by the English Folk Dance and Song Society and is funded by the Weston Culture Fund of the Garfield Weston Foundation.

Creative team

• Bernadette Russell – writer/dramaturge/co- director
• DJ Walde – composer/musical director
• Kerry Fletcher – co-director /choreographer
• Natasha Khamjani – co-director /choreographer
• Rachana Jadhav – set and costume designer
• Tom Fairbairn – show musical director/associate artist

Related show

• Artist: HOPE
• Date: 20/11/21
• Time: 7:30pm
• Venue: Cecil Sharp House
• City: Camden , London
• Address: 2 Regent’s Park Road
• Country: United Kingdom
• Admission: £16
• Age restrictions: All Ages

There’s never a dull moment with Folk Dance Remixed!

Here’s a snap of us working in Hammersmith in August 2020. We get lockdowned – but we’re out dancing again!

 

In June we celebrate our 10th birthday!

Enjoy this special video with colourful lockdown offerings from our fantastic family of magnificent dancers, musicians and crew! We love them all – and we’d like you all to have a laugh and smile to celebrate our 10th anniversary. Here’s to celebrating our 11th with you out in the open next year, and bringing colour, joy, connection and love to you all.  Happy to talk to any promoters and event organisers for 2021!

And in the meantime, if you’d like to support us, here’s our virtual hat on the pavement/tip jar:

https://www.paypal.me/FolkDanceRemixed

Stay safe, and be kind, love Natasha, Kerry and Frances xxx

Week 10 of Folk Dance Remixed Fridays presents ‘Nations Remixed’!

The rehearsals for this were sooo hard! The piece was commissioned in 2015 by Brent Council to celebrate the opening of the Willesden Green Cultural Centre and the Rugby World Cup. Celebrating the nations playing in Brent – New Zealand, Argentina, Ireland, and Romania – and the host nation England, we used folk dance and hip-hop to create Nations Remixed. So many new moves & styles to learn!! Thanks for commissioning us Zerritha Hirst & Ashleigh Trezise back then with Brent Council Arts Service 🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼 our #folkdanceremixedfamily we’re EPIC as usual!