Press

2021

June

• Jack Petchey Foundation (1st June 2021) Giving Something Back grants boost youth volunteering!

April

• Line.77.QQ.com (15th April 2021) Disabled Dance Company

March

• Barchester’s Charitable Foundation (March 2021) Activities Moving Online

2020

December

• Leverhulme Trust (December 2020) Promoting Pathways for Learning Disabled Dancers

November

• London Arts in Health Forum (November 2020) Don’t Stop Us Now! – 13th December 2020

October

• Where We Can Go  (15th October 2020) Holiday School Advertisement
• Surviving Through Story (October 2020) Video Stories

July

• Animated (July 2020) The practice behind the ‘practice’

April

• Broadway World (30 April 2020) VIDEO: Diverse Dance Groups Celebrate Protein’s 21st Anniversary

January

• London Post (26 January 2020) The Royal Ballet and MS Society collaborate with three month residency at the Royal Opera House

2019

November

•  Marquee TV (November 2019) Hidden Impact

August

•  Ideas Alliance (22 August 2019) Neurodiversity, Performance, and Dance: In Conversation with Natasha Britton, Dance Practise Director of Magpie Dance 

July

•  LSI Online (29 July 2019) Unusual sponsors charity summer school
• Entertainment Technology News On Web (25 July 2019) Unusual Rigging sponsors leading dance charity’s summer school
•  Disability Arts Online (6 July 2019) Magpie Dance Showcase

June

•  Bromley Borough News (28 June 2019) Bromley learning-disabilities dance troupe perform at The Glades Shopping Centre
•  Candoco Dance Company (20 June 2019) Co Motion: Creating and Choreographing with Cando2
•  Lewisham News (7 June 2019) Film star Emma and playwright Roy Williams ask locals to give to drama charity for vulnerable children 

April

•  Community Living (Spring 2019) Remembrance Dance
•  ISTD (16 April 2019) ISTD Springboard

March

•  Frome Times (March 2019) Frome Busks is hitting the streets in style
•  The Kentonian (March 2019) Magpie Christmas at The Glades

2018

December

• The Kentonian (December 2018) Introducing Magpie Dance

November

• Bromley Borough News (12 November 2018) Bromley’s The Glades takes part in disability awareness event Purple Tuesday tomorrow

August

• Me.Decoded (22 August 2018) Neurodiversity through the eyes of the Founding Artistic Director of Magpie Dance

March

• Bromley Borough News (27 March 2018) Magpie members are filmed at The Glades, Bromley for global dance project

February

• News in Beckenham (28 February 2018) Dance charity for disabled people seeking volunteers
• People Dancing (23 February 2018) What’s rewarding? Seeing every ‘body’ dance – for enjoyment, for art, for a career

January

• National Diversity Awards Interview with 2017 Lifetime Achiever Award Winner – Avril Hitman BEM
• Bromley Borough News (18 January 2018) Bromley based Magpie Dance receives funding from Arts Council England
• Bromley Times (18 January 2018) Bromley based charity awarded fund
• Edenbridge Chronicle (18 January 2018) Bromley based Magpie Dance receives funding from Arts Council England

Press enquiries

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Notes to Editors:
Formed in 1985, Magpie Dance is a contemporary dance charity for people with learning disabilities. The work of the charity unlocks individual potential and ability by giving participants space to make their own choices and take ownership of what they achieve. Based in Bromley, Magpie Dance delivers workshops throughout the UK and the participants gain opportunities through high quality programmes in participation, performance and training.