Event type: Dance

Social Dance Lab: Shared Roots

Merseyside Social Dance CIC presents Social Dance Lab: Shared Roots — a beginner-friendly night bringing Salsa, Bachata and Kizomba together at Future Yard.

Following the first Social Dance Lab: Latin Roots, Shared Roots expands the idea by bringing Kizomba into the programme and exploring connections and shared influences across social dance traditions shaped in Latin America, Africa and their diasporas.

The evening is designed as a journey through all three dances, with beginner-friendly classes in Salsa, Bachata and Kizomba, short 15-minute practice sessions between each class, followed by an SBK social where everyone can stay, practise, dance and connect. No partner or previous dance experience is needed.

Social Dance Lab is about connection, discovery and participation — creating a welcoming space where newcomers can learn together, meet people and gradually become part of a regular social dance community in Merseyside.

19:00 – Beginner Salsa with Noemi
19:45 – Practice
20:00 – Beginner Bachata with Tee
20:45 – Practice
21:00 – Beginner Kizomba with Jonathan
21:45 – Practice
22:00 – SBK Social

Following the sell-out success of Traces Through Time, Fallen Angels Dance Theatre returns with a deeply moving and transformative new evening of dance, Holding Light.

At the heart of Fallen Angels is a powerful mission, creating extraordinary dance theatre performed by artists with lived experience of addiction and mental health recovery. Their work brings raw, authentic lived experience to the stage, breaking down stigma and celebrating personal resilience through striking physical storytelling.

Crafted over six months of collaboration between the dancers and creative team, Holding Light explores light as both a dynamic partner on stage and a metaphor for recovery, hope, and personal awakening. The evening weaves together three distinct creative perspectives. Acclaimed choreographer Russell Maliphant brings his signature mastery of light and movement, making illumination an active collaborator with the dancers. International dance artist Alice Godfrey offers a rich, emotive exploration of body, space, and personal transformation, while sound artist Feri Gyemant frames every movement with an immersive and emotionally charged soundscape.

“If we can tell those complex, challenging stories, then hopefully the public can understand more about recovery”

Claire Morris, Creative & Strategic Director

Authentic, moving, and uplifting, Holding Light invites audiences to witness stories that are often unseen, offering a deeply memorable evening of dance, hope and healing.