DANCE & BALLET IN MANCHESTER
DANCE & BALLET IN MANCHESTER
Most Popular Dance & Ballet in Manchester
Tue 30 Jun - Sun 5 Jul 2026
Floridita Dance - Free Salsa Taster Class
Monday 20 January - Monday 31 March 2025
Ever wanted to learn Salsa but never danced before? Now's your chance! Start with Floridita Dance's FREE taster class designed just for absolute beginners. No partner is required. After that, you can keep growing your skills through their c...
Floridita Dance - Free Bachata Taster Class
Tuesday 21 January - Tuesday 25 March 2025
Ever wanted to learn Bachata but never danced before? Now's your chance! Start with Floridita Dance's FREE taster class designed just for absolute beginners. No partner required. After that, you can keep growing your skills through their co...
The Lowry Dance & Drama Workshops
Tuesday 21 January - Thursday 31 July 2025
The Lowry offers a diverse and inclusive creating learning offer for Primary and Secondary Schools. With a variety of workshops linked to curriculum areas, mental health and wellbeing and project work. Held either at The Lowry or in scho...
Lowry CAT - Open Dance Class
Thursday 23 January - Thursday 20 March 2025
Calling all young people aged 8-14 who love to move! Take part in inspiring dance classes to develop your dance ability and unleash your artistic creativity. Experience how dancers train at Lowry. Classes are led by Lowry Centre for Advanc...
Giovanni Pernice - The Last Dance
Sunday 26 January 2025
Strictly Come Dancing professional Giovanni Pernice returns in 2025 with his tour 'The Last Dance'. The 2021 Strictly champion and BAFTA winner will be taking to the stage once again with his company of world class performers. Giovanni, the...
Carlos Acosta's Nutcracker in Havana
Monday 27 - Tuesday 28 January 2025
A Cuban take on the favourite festive classic, Carlos Acosta's brand-new production Nutcracker in Havana explodes onto the stage, featuring new choreography by Carlos Acosta CBE performed by more than 20 dancers from his Cuban company, Acos...
Giovanni Pernice - The Last Dance
Monday 27 January 2025
Strictly Come Dancing professional Giovanni Pernice returns in 2025 with his tour 'The Last Dance'. The 2021 Strictly champion and BAFTA winner will be taking to the stage once again with his company of world class performers. Giovanni, the...
Strength Body And Mind
Saturday 1 February - Saturday 25 October 2025
The Strength Body and Mind Class is ideal for anyone looking to build physical strength while also calming the mind....
Manchester Spring Festival
Sunday 9 February 2025
A spectacular celebration of Chinese New Year and Lantern Festival. Hosted at the iconic Bridgewater Hall, this event will seamlessly blend the rich traditions and vibrant modernity of Chinese culture for an unforgettable evening. The progr...
Chinese New Year Extravaganza
Sunday 9 February 2025
Come and celebrate the Year of the Snake as Jinlong Culture & Performing Arts returns with a spectacular line-up of exciting programmes! After 5 years of dormancy since Covid, the show brings back their 18 metre dragon that illuminates the ...
British Gymnastics - GymFusion
Sunday 16 February 2025
Lights, camera, action! GymFusion is one of the most exciting and dramatic forms of gymnastics to watch, as display teams from across the country showcase exciting and creative performances based on this year's theme of 'movies'. It's all a...
Emilyn Claid - Untitled
Friday 21 February 2025
Emilyn Claid has a fifty year career as a performer, stretching back to the 1960s when she was a ballet dancer with the National Ballet of Canada and the 1970s when she was co-founder of experimental collective X6 Dance Space in London, a ...
Daniel Martinez Flamenco Company - Art of Andalucia
Sunday 2 March 2025
The award-winning Daniel Martinez Flamenco Company presents its long-awaited 2nd production Andalucia, a stunning flamenco production accompanied by a chamber orchestra. This extra special concert is a musical representation of the eight r...
Tap Factory
Monday 3 March 2025
After mesmerizing audiences across five continents with over 800 shows, Tap Factory is thrilled to be back in UK with its 10th Anniversary Tour! Prepare to be captivated as eight extraordinary male performers deliver a sensational blend of ...
Birmingham Royal Ballet - Cinderella
Thursday 6 - Saturday 8 March 2025
This enchanting fairytale is a glorious celebration of ballet. Praised by audiences and critics alike, former Birmingham Royal Ballet Director David Bintley's Cinderella is a sure-fire mix of wonderful dance, spectacular scenery, and a ...
Cristina Aguilera - Emuná
Friday 14 March 2025
Emuna by flamenco dancer Cristina Aguilera, an enchanting and passionate performance from flamenco greats, with Miguel Lavi, David Caro. International flamenco star from Granada, Cristina Aguilera (bailaora) returns with her second show aft...
Karen Hauer & Gorka Marquez - Speakeasy
Sunday 16 March 2025
Strictly Come Dancing professionals Karen Hauer and Gorka Marquez return with their brand-new show Speakeasy. Expect exhilarating live music and breath-taking choreography with Karen and Gorka's newest offering, which follows their debut to...
Anton Du Beke - At the Musicals
Tuesday 18 March 2025
Strictly Come Dancing legend and judge, Anton Du Beke, takes to the stage in 2025. With his live band, guest singer and dancers, expect a fab-u-lous evening of song, dance and laughter. Anton will be performing songs and dances from some of...
Stars for Tonight
Sunday 23 March 2025
Showcasing the talent from local students on the big stage, NW Productions present Stars For Tonight, a variety showcase giving students some memories to last a lifetime. ...
Amy & Carlos - Reborn
Friday 28 March 2025
Having made a stunning return to the Strictly dancefloor, Amy Dowden MBE - accompanied by fellow sensational Strictly Come Dancing star Carlos Gu - truly feels Reborn. Join Amy and Carlos as they share an intimate portrait of their lives an...
Georgia Tegou & Kristina Pulejkova - Homecoming
Tuesday 1 April 2025
What happens when your world falls apart?Homecoming, by choreographer Georgia Tegou and visual artist Kristina Pulejkova, blends storytelling, dynamic choreography, and cutting-edge technology to trace the journey of a woman on a quest to...
Marikiscrycrycry - Goner
Wednesday 2 April 2025
The Goner is someone who is doomed with no chance of survival-bound to death, a lost and hopeless case. This work follows this figure on a sensuous, suspense-filled and fearsome choreographic journey into the psychological depths of the Gon...
TURN 2025
Friday 4 April 2025
Our annual platform for North West dancers and dance-makers, Turn is an opportunity to engage with new dance in Greater Manchester every spring. This twelfth edition will present up to ten short works over a single night throughout Contact?...
Bollywood Time Machine
Friday 11 April 2025
Embark on a journey through the dynamic decades with Bollywood Time Machine! From the groovy 60s to the contemporary hits of today, immerse yourself in an evening filled with laughter, dance, and timeless melodies from enchanting voices of ...
Craig Revel Horwood
Saturday 12 April 2025
The star of BBC1's Strictly Come Dancing is taking to the road with his debut solo tour! Join Craig as he talks about his life from Australia to the West End to Strictly, reveals a wealth of backstage gossip with his trademark wit and cando...
Craig Revel Horwood
Thursday 24 April 2025
The star of BBC1's Strictly Come Dancing is taking to the road with his debut solo tour! Join Craig as he talks about his life from Australia to the West End to Strictly, reveals a wealth of backstage gossip with his trademark wit and cando...
Manchester Collective x Clark x Melanie Lane - Refractions
Friday 25 April 2025
What if everything that came from the past was influenced by the future? Enter a musical time warp where sound resonates across the ages. Manchester Collective team up with electronic musician Clark and choreographer Melanie Lane for a grou...
Torvill & Dean
Friday 2 - Sunday 4 May 2025
World-renowned figure skating duo Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean, best known as simply Torvill & Dean, are world-famous figure skaters and former British, World, European and Olympic champions. In 2024, they announced their retirement ...
Nikita Kuzmin - Midnight Dancer
Thursday 8 May 2025
Ukrainian-Italian dance star Nikita Kuzmin brings his brand-new show to the stage. Rising star of Strictly Come Dancing and Celebrity Big Brother Nikita Kuzmin brings his brand-new show, Midnight Dancer to the stage on his first ever solo U...
Gary Clarke Company - Detention
Wednesday 14 - Thursday 15 May 2025
Barnsley's pioneering, award-winning dance theatre company Gary Clarke Company proudly presents its highly anticipated new dance theatre show, Detention, sequel to the multi award-winning Coal and critically acclaimed Wasteland. Detention e...
Modern Table Dance Company - Ham:beth
Tuesday 20 May 2025
K-pop boy-band meets Shakespearean drama in this energetic all-male show by award-winning South Korean dance company Modern Table Dance Company, led by choreographer Kim Jae Duk. 8 dancers in slick suits battle against the pressure to conf...
Emergence Dance
Thursday 22 May 2025
Emergence, the touring postgraduate dance company of Joss Arnott Dance and the University of Salford, return with a brand-new, triple bill programme of adrenaline-fuelled dance works performed by a new company of extraordinary dancers. N...
Aljaz & Janette - A Night to Remember
Saturday 31 May 2025
A Night to Remember is the brand-new show from Strictly favourites Aljaz & Janette! It will be a night of unforgettable dancing, great music and plenty of laughter! Aljaz and Janette have graced UK stages across the country for over 6 years...
Becky Namgauds - The Heat
Tuesday 3 June 2025
The Hear, a surreal dance theatre piece by Becky Namgauds, begins in the realm of the domestic space. As the landscape unravels, cracks appear, and through them seep the dark psyche, simmering desires, and moments of biting absurdity transf...
Thick & Tight - Natural Behaviour
Tuesday 10 - Wednesday 11 June 2025
After last year's award-winning tour of Tits & Teeth, Thick & Tight present a brand new variety show Natural Behaviour, a collection of performed portraits of human and non-human life forms. Outrageous, beautiful, hilarious and profound, Na...
Oti Mabuse
Sunday 15 June 2025
From the sambas of Brazilian Carnival to the Tangos of Argentina's Fiesta Nacional de la Vendimia, the dance scene at England's own Glastonbury Festival and the swing of the Jazz Fest in New Orleans, join queen of the dance floor Oti M...
Kai Widdrington - Evolution
Thursday 19 June 2025
StrictlyTheatre Co. and Rock You Productions present - StrictlyCome Dancing star Kai Widdrington is set to dazzle audiences across theUK & Ireland with his highly anticipated 2025 dance tour. Following histriumphant performances on the hit ...
Nadiya Bychkova & The Overtones - Jukebox Idols
Saturday 21 June 2025
Strictly Come Dancing star Nadiya Bychkova and the platinum-selling vocal harmony group The Overtones have announced they will star together in a brand new show for 2025 called Jukebox Idols. From the producers of the West End smash hit Rip...
Matthew Bourne's The Midnight Bell
Tuesday 1 - Saturday 5 July 2025
Matthew Bourne's award-winning The Midnight Bell comes to Salford for the first time in 2025. In 1930s London ordinary people emerge from cheap boarding houses nightly to pour out their passions, hopes and dreams in the pubs and fog-bound s...
Burn The Floor with Dianne & Vito - Red Hot and Ready
Friday 11 July 2025
Strictly professionals Dianne Buswell and Vito Coppola star in brand-new stage show, Red Hot and Ready! Created by BAFTA award recipient and world-renowned choreographer Jason Gilkison, Red Hot and Ready builds on the acclaimed performance ...
Anton & Giovanni - Together Again
Sunday 13 July 2025
The nation's favourite double act, Anton Du Beke and Giovanni Pernice, are Together Again in 2025 with a BRAND NEW SHOW. Anton & Giovanni - Together Again is going to be the smash-hit tour of the summer... More fun, more dance, more song...
Quadrophenia - A Mod Ballet
Tuesday 15 - Saturday 19 July 2025
Presented by Sadler's Wells and Universal Music UK Meet the new generation... In 1973, guitar smashing rock genius Pete Townshend wrote QUADROPHENIA. Recorded by The Who - it quickly became an iconic and multi-million selling album. Quadrop...
Rhythm of the Dance
Friday 18 July 2025
Rhythm of the Dance has brought audiences around the world to their feet for over two decades and is returning with a brand new production. Rooted in Ireland's rich culture and heritage, Rhythm of the Dance takes a different perspective on ...
Riverdance
Saturday 23 - Wednesday 27 August 2025
Since Riverdance first emerged onto the world stage, its fusion of Irish and international dance and music has captured the hearts of millions worldwide. The Grammy award-winning music and the infectious energy of its mesmerising choreograp...
Rambert x (LA)HORDE - Bring Your Own
Tuesday 16 - Thursday 18 September 2025
RAMBERT X LAHORDE Bring Your Own We're crashing an after-party; you coming? Bring Your Own is gritty, sensual, and fiercely real. Will you dive into the chaos or shy away? Will you feel everything, and maybe nothing, all at once? In this e...
Christmas with Anton du Beke & Friends
Wednesday 10 December 2025
Journey into a festive wonderland and enjoy Christmas with Anton Du Beke! The ballroom king and Strictly Come Dancing judge joins forces with a troupe of extraordinary dancers, along with vocalist Lance Ellington and his dynamic live band, ...
Motionhouse - Hidden
Friday 30 January 2026
Jaw-dropping dance-circus from internationally renowned company Motionhouse, with its brand-new production Hidden. Hidden explores how, in an increasingly divided world, light can come out of darkness in times of crisis. At times narrat...
Lord of the Dance: 30th Anniversary
Tuesday 30 June - Sunday 5 July 2026
Lord of the Dance, the global phenomenon that redefined Irish dance, is set to return to the United Kingdom in 2026 to celebrate its 30th Anniversary with an extraordinary new tour. This milestone event promises to be a grand celebration of...
