Bringing Books to Life:
Dance workshops for World Book Week
✓ Nursery - Year 6
✓ Led by a professional dancer
✓ Literacy, World Book Week
✓ Delivered in your school hall
Celebrate books and literacy as your children become storytellers through dance
Selling fast in many locations for World Book Day 2025 - early booking recommended!
Created in the heart of London’s West End, our Bringing Books to Life dance workshops give children a unique insight into books by using dance and movement to tell stories.
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!
Choreography by:
Mairi Cowieson & Emma Cannon.
Find out more about our creatives.
- We work with individual classes for sessions of between 35 and 50 minutes.
- 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.
- We will send you a suggested timetable when you enquire and will work with you to create a timetable that works for your school day.
- Develop an understanding of the chosen 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 us in action
Get a flavour of the West End in Schools workshop experience with our new highlights 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 for World Book Week 2025
Traditional tale
Nursery, Reception, KS1
by Roald Dahl
Nursery, Reception, KS1, KS2
by Dr Seuss
Reception, KS1, KS2
by Michael Morpurgo
KS2
by Maurice Sendak
Nursery, Reception, KS1, KS2
