Arriving in the snow and freezing cold weather, Beverley and myself arrived in Toronto to share our story at ‘Connectively Moving Our Dance’ an innovative conference event organised by dance Immersion, a charitable non-profit organisation established by Vivine Scarlett in 1994 to produce, promote, and support dancers and dances of the African Diaspora. Supported by a fantastic team, Timea Wharton-Suri, Zahra Badua, Jillian Greyson, and Nicole Inica Hamilton the organisation e

We at IRIE! dance theatre, are thrilled to announce that we are amongst the organisations successfully joining Arts Council England’s (ACE) National Portfolio Organisations (NPO) in 2023-26. We understand that the process was highly competitive, therefore we were even more excited by the prospect. In 2004, the company took what we believed would be a 3-5 years hiatus, while my colleague, Rosie Lehan and I undertook a research project entitled Dance and Diversity to investigat

By Amarr Wright, Community Engagement Coordinator Easter recently marked a time of renewal for many; for others, it marked a time for family, and for others a time for chocolate. For members of Grinling Gibbons and Lucas Vale schools in Deptford, it marked a chance for these schools to be reborn under the leadership of the newly appointed Executive Head, Mr. Mickey Kelly. With a new sense of hope and renewed resilience, and under the rays of the beaming sun, these schools hel

IRIE! wants to say c o n g r a t u l a t i o n ’ s to Dr H Patten, who received an MBE in Her Majesty The Queen’s New Year’s Honours list for his services to African and Caribbean Dance. Dr H is the lead Caribbean dance Lecturer on IRIE!’s BA (Hons) Diverse Dance Styles. Dr H is rebranding his MBE ‘Member of the Black Emancipators’. He says: “as that is our role no matter whether it be in small or large ways. We must always strive to use our individual advances to open doors