HELP OUR DANCERS SOAR

Your donations support Artistry Youth Dance in continuing to provide high-quality training and performance opportunities for young Black dancers.

As a non-profit community organisation, we rely on your donations, in-kind support, and sponsorships to keep the programme accessible and student fees low.

We thank you for your support in helping the next generation of young Black dancers reach their potential, to shine and soar.

The Arts are a beautifully diverse field, but within the UK’s top 10 ballet and contemporary companies, only 2% of professional artists are of African or Caribbean descent. Artistry Youth Dance, therefore, exists to create a pipeline of versatile dancers, trained in ballet, contemporary, jazz, and dance forms of the African Diaspora, while positively influencing how our dancers view themselves, their ability, and broadening their horizon of what they believe to be possible.

We want more young dancers of African and Caribbean descent to be uplifted, inspired, and encouraged to pursue their dreams in dance, the Arts, or whatever career path they choose.

Through Artistry Youth Dance, our participants learn and develop their dance and performance techniques. We support our dancers to develop a range of life skills that can be applied to any career they choose to pursue.

Our young people have gone on to train at leading schools, colleges, and universities, including: The Urdang Academy, Guilford School of Acting, London School of Contemporary Dance, the Brit School, Laban, and many more. They have worked on television, in musicals on the West End, and beyond.

By celebrating and advancing the talents and artistry of young black dancers, our goal is to contribute to a more culturally diverse representation of performers in the UK dance industry.