Northern Ballet Theatre (NBT) and Northern School of Contemporary Dance (NSCD) are holding open dance classes across Yorkshire on selected Sunday's from 21 January - 4 March. The open days are an opportunity for young dance enthusiasts from across Yorkshire to sample a ballet or contemporary dance class and learn more about the Yorkshire Young Dancer (YYD) Scheme. The open days are free and must be booked in advance.

Jump and jive to the hottest beats from the Big Band Era when Theatre Under The Stars produces Swing! from January 30-February 11 at the Hobby Center for the Performing Arts (800 Bagby at Walker). Swing! is a celebration of the music and dance phenomenon that swept the nation in the 30's and 40's and has returned to become one of today's fastest growing trends.

Dance as well as art lovers will be amongst the guests at an exclusive private view and auction at Thompson's Marylebone Gallery in West London. The private viewing is for a new collection by renowned and award winning Scottish artist Helen Wilson and all the paintings have a dance theme.

A school which took part in a special dance and education project run by DanceEast has been commissioned by the leading dance organisation to write a teachers' resource pack for dance so that other schools can benefit.

The Greater Memphis Arts Council recently presented its Emerging Artist Award to Ballet Memphis trainee John Speed Orr. The Emerging Artist Award is a special Arts Council grant, the funds of which are designated to further an artist's career through training, study or other professional development that also will enhance the organization long term.

The winner of New Zealand's top Todd Corporation Scholarship for dance had to choose between ballet and soccer.

Among the Bamana peoples of Mali, in West Africa, there is a ceremony in which dancers dress up as an antelope - called Tsi Wara - and imitate the movements of the animal. The dance shows a keen observation of the behavior of the antelope.

Sydney's Gina Brescianini has been awarded the prestigious 2006 Telstra Ballet Dancer Award, the highest accolade of its kind for young ballet dancers.

The Place is delighted to announce that Richard Alston Dance Company dancer Jonathan Goddard has been nominated for this year's The Times/South Bank Show Breakthrough Award.

Members and friends of the Ethnic Dance Theatre mourn the passing of co-founder and artistic director, Jonathan Frey, 55, who died of natural causes in October at his south Minneapolis home.

2007 at The Place begins with three days of intensive dance classes and repertory with Matthew Bourne's New Adventures.

The eighteenth annual Resolution!, firmly established as the UK's launching platform for new choreographic talent, returns to The Place from Friday 5 January - Saturday 17 February 2007.
This year Resolution! 2007 boasts a record breaking 114 UK and international contemporary dance companies performing at The Place over the festival period.