IRIE! dance theatre based at the Moonshot Centre in New Cross, London Borough of Lewisham is celebrating today after being awarded £397,040 in funding from The National Lottery Community Fund, the largest funder of community activity in the UK. IRIE! dance theatre will use the funding to develop its capacity to expand and sustain its thriving community and education programmes locally and at its base at the Moonshot centre. The project entitled Moonshot Community will provide

Beverley Glean MBE, CEO & Artistic Director, IRIE! dance theatre It is with great sadness, that I am sharing this tragic news. On Wednesday, April 13th 2022, just before 4pm, there was a fatal stabbing of a young man aged 16 outside Moonshot. We inside the building and members of the public looked on anxiously, while we all witnessed a skilled team of paramedics carry out lifesaving procedures, which ultimately failed to save the energy of a spirit at the early stages of beco

IRIE! dance theatre is ready to participate, and celebrate with Lewisham as we become the Mayor of London’s Borough of Culture 2022 (LBOC). We played our part, as an organisation in helping to secure the award. Nevertheless, IRIE! congratulates London Borough of Lewisham on its amazing efforts and steadfastness on becoming BOC. We were delighted to be approached by LBOC bid writing team from very early on, along with other arts, cultural and voluntary groups and organisati

by Connor Taylor, Education and Community Engagement Coordinator. IRIE! dance theatre’s exciting autumn programme is delivering a number of new classes asked for by you! members of our local community. Alongside, the usual Women’s online dance class, Tai Chi and African dance, we are introducing Yoga, Salsa, Drumming & Percussion and Art & Craft. Several of the sessions are open to families, providing opportunities for parents/guardians and their children to participate creat

If you are struggling in finding new ways to support your children during homeschool, we have got your back! Our Online Saturday School sessions are designed to assist children & young people, Key Stages 1-4 in Maths, English and Black History. Lockdown have brought additional challenges to parents having to home school their children. So, in an attempt to respond to the frustrations of our users, IRIE! decided to create an online space where local families could engage in ge

Staying indoors does not mean that you cannot stay active and get fit. But if you are looking for more than just exercise, dance may be the right choice: there are multiple benefits of dancing, both for adults and children & young people. There is something special about moving our bodies to the sound of the music. And here at IRIE! dance theatre, we know how powerful dance can be – physically and mentally. Are you thinking about starting dancing at home? We have 5 good reaso

Cultural heritage is not just a concrete virtue of our past, portrayed as objects, but an abstract sensation of diverse symbolic meanings, embodiment and manifestations. Nii Kwartey Owoo – African Dance Lecturer I first came to the UK in 2013 to teach at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), hoping to create a dialogue and exchange with people from all walks of life and to share my culture and heritage, to not only be viewed as something from the diaspora or farf

With Sheba Montserrat My brief from IRIE! regarding the online Black History Month classes, was to explore the contributions of the Windrush Generation to British culture. This 5 weeks of lessons, would be delivered via Zoom to all the educational Key Stages. That said, my aim was to the challenge the narrative around how we commonly see and speak of those young adventurers who came to the perceived motherland, primarily because they were invited to. Our first session togethe

Now I invite you to have some music and express if mental health would be a movement or a dance style how would it look like.

Laura Dwyer - Project Support and Administrator