Dance workshops for
Book Week 2025
✓ Reception - Year 6
✓ Led by a professional dancer
✓ Available throughout the UK
✓ Delivered in your school hall
Celebrate books and literacy as your children become storytellers through dance
Created in the heart of London’s West End, our dance workshops give children a unique insight into books by using dance and movement to tell stories.
We can bring your whole school together to perform a choreographed version of Alice in Wonderland in just one day, or work class-by-class with our popular ‘Bringing Books to Life’ workshops, to create a short movement sequence inspired by a beloved children's book.
Led by an inspiring professional dancer, children are encouraged to use their creativity and imaginations as they work together to explore your chosen story through dance. Each session is tailored to suit the differing ages of the children, with accompanying music or narration.
Available UK wide, we help hundreds of schools celebrate storytelling during their exciting Book Weeks every year. Teachers also tell us the dance workshops are a great use of their sports premium budget!
Our flagship Bringing Books to Life workhop sessions are great for any number of classes, and explore your choice from our selection of children’s books and fairytales.
- We work with classes from Reception to Year 6 for sessions between 35 and 50 minutes. Nursery classes can also have 30 minute 'taster' sessions.
- We can run up to seven 35 minute sessions per day. To work with fewer classes we can visit for just an afternoon or morning session. To work with more than seven classes we can visit across multiple days.
- Each individual session closes with a two-minute dance performance for the teacher.
- For two or three form entry schools we work across multiple days.
- To cover the material we need at least three classes from KS2.
- At the end of the day, children come together to perform their section of the story to each other, creating a full performance with music and narration.
- Develop an understanding of the story by recreating the narrative from start to finish.
- Collaborate with classmates by creating a shared retelling of the story.
- Develop creative ownership and the imagination by working alongside a professional dancer-choreographer.
- Gain confidence in physical literacy as an expression of meaning and emotion.
Watch our Dance Today workshop in action!
Get a flavour of the whole-school performance workshop in our new video.
This year, World Book Day is celebrated Thu 6 March 2025, and between 24 February and 14 March we’ll be running workshops inspired by our specially chosen selection of children’s books. For a wider range of books available outside of these dates, please head to our Bringing Books to Life page.
Book Options
by Lewis Carroll
Dance Today
Traditional tale
Bringing Books to Life (EYFS, KS1)
by Michael Morpurgo
Bringing Books to Life (KS2)
by Roald Dahl
Bringing Books to Life (EYFS, KS1, KS2)
by Dr Seuss
Bringing Books to Life (Reception, KS1, KS2)
by Maurice Sendak
Bringing Books to Life (EYFS, KS1, KS2)
