Experience Opportunity

FRESH 2025

FRESH is our annual festival of youth dance in Yorkshire. Youth dance groups from across Yorkshire come together for the day to take part in dance workshops before performing live on a professional stage. FRESH 2025 will take place on Saturday, 19 April 2025 in Bradford including a performance at Bradford Alhambra.

FRESH is the regional platform for One Dance UK’s U.Dance National Festival. One dance group will be selected at FRESH to perform at The U.Dance National Festival 2025 at Sadler’s Wells.

Requirements

FRESH 2025 is open to everyone! This includes schools, community-based youth dance groups, individuals and youth companies aged 11-19 (or aged 11-25 for dancers with additional needs or a disability) based in Yorkshire.

FRESH is open to all dance styles from street dance to Kathak to commercial. We welcome applications from soloists, duets, trios and groups of up to 20 dancers.

We encourage applications from young choreographers, work-in-progress pieces, newly established groups and groups who have not taken part in FRESH previously.

We warmly welcome applications from youth dance groups working with young disabled dancers (up to the age of 25). FRESH and U.Dance aim to be inclusive and accessible. Please talk to us if you have any questions or concerns about access for your group.

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