Ballet4Life To Celebrate National Launch of Let's Dance!


Initiative aims to raise awareness of the benefits of dance

Ballet4Life has been running classes in Chiswick for 19 years
Ballet4Life has been running classes in Chiswick for over 20 years

February 8, 2025

As part of a national celebration of dance, Ballet4Life is to offer free taster classes for adults.

Let’s Dance! is an initiative, spearheaded by Angela Rippon CBE, to awareness of the benefits of dance on both physical and mental health plus how it brings people together.

The Chiswick-based organisation which has been running for 21 years, will be holding the sessions on the national launch day of Let’s Dance! on Sunday 2 March.

It will offer three free Adult Beginner Dance Taster classes in Studio 110 at the Arts Educational School on 14 Bath Road (W4 1LY).

The timetable for its Let’s Dance Day is as follows:

10.00am – 10.10am- Welcome and Introduction to Ballet4Life, Settle In, Answer Queries
10.15-11.15am- Adult Beginner Ballet Taster with Ballet4Life teacher Chris Christodoulou
11.20am- 12.20pm- Adult Beginner Contemporary Dance Taster with Chris
12.25 – 1.25pm- Adult Beginner Jazz Dance Taster with Ballet4Life Teacher Johanna Von Salmuth
1.30pm– Finish up

To register for one, two, or all three classes, visit this link and note visitors must sign-in at the Arts Ed Reception desk upon entry to the building.

Information will also be available on the day about Ballet4Life’s 10-year-old award-winning sister charity Move into Wellbeing®, which provides over ten weekly dance and movement classes to those in the community living with Parkinson’s, other neurological conditions, and mobility issues. Move into Wellbeing works with London Borough of Hounslow’s Stay Steady and Active Campaign and their Falls Prevention and Bone Health Clinic as well the NHS Chiswick Primary Care Network.

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