LS9 Club

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Leeds organisations have teamed up with the support of Yorkshire Sport and Richmond Hill Academy (Gorse Academy Trust). DAZL delivers dance and Acro, Leeds Rhinos delivers rugby, Leeds United delivers football and multisport and Inspiring Positive Futures.

The aim of the LS9 Club is focused on young people from across Leeds 9 providing high quality physical activities and provision for children and young people.

In our first week we have engaged over 70 young people and this is growing by the day. We so excited that all organisations can come together and provide this service. The need for these activities which have been made free is vital.

Poverty and low aspiration is high in the ward and we hope engagement in this provision will improve this and inspire the young people to see beyond what they currently feel is possible.

We aim to celebrate the small step and we move along our first term of activity. This is just the beginning for the partnership and bigger plans are ahead of us.

 

DAZL 2023 Annual Review

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Here is how we did in 2023, We want to give a big thank you to all our DAZL team, families and participants.

This has been a truly wonderful year of dance.

Let’s see what 2024 brings for DAZL.

Here is a link to download your copy DAZL Annual Review 2023

Below are some snapshot slides of the review with highlights to look over.

 

 

 

 

DAZL Christmas Showcase 22

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Here is the DAZL Christmas showcase 22, film 14th December 2022.

 

Featuring

  • DAZL Excel
  • DAZL Empire
  • Kick Off Boys
  • DAZL Rothwell
  • DAZL Cottingley
  • DAZL Queens
  • DAZL Inclusive
  • DAZL Seacroft
  • DAZL Middleton (Tinies & 7-11yrs)
  • DAZL Wortley
  • DAZL Batley
  • DAZL Bramley

The showcase was held at the Morley Town Hall and Opened by the Mayor Of Morley. Please sit back and enjoy the showcase, filmed by Wayne Sables.

 

 

 

DAZL Empire Community Competition Teams

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DAZL Empire

DAZL Empire Community Competition Teams  

The DAZL Empire Community Competition Teams are for children and young people who wish to take dance a little more seriously and take part in competitions and examinations.

Examinations

These competition teams will compete at the IDTA International Dance Teachers Association dance (IDTA) competitions and will also take part in examinations as a requirement to compete.

 

 

 

Competitions

The community competition teams have a commitment of 2-4 competitions each year this depends on qualifying from their regional competition for a national spot. (E.g. Street qualifiers (October) – Street nationals. Freestyle & Rock n Roll Qualifiers (June) and then Nationals (November))

The groups will also take part in Urban Cheer UK competitions a minimum of 1 per year these are generally 1-day events with no qualifications to other competitions. Each DAZL Empire group will take part in compulsory community fundraising to support the running of the competition teams.

Some DAZL Empire groups will do some fun competitions or the Freestyle may do The Association of Dance & Freestyle Professionals – ADFP competitions but this is down to each group and the level of commitment or what is agreed upon by that group. We are all one community competition team but each group or area may have different needs and wants and we are happy to help meet them. The minimum requirement is the IDTA Qualifiers / Nationals in Street dance and Freestyle etc.. along with one Urban Cheer dance competition per year.

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Where are the groups based?

The Community competition teams are based in Middleton, Belle Isle, Bramley and Batley. The offers in styles for the DAZL Empire community competition teams are Cheerdance/ Urban Cheer Competitions, Streetdance, Freestyle and Acro.

The Empire Dance Troop partnership!

The Middleton & Belle Isle groups are a partnership with Empire Dance Troop along with all our Acro and IDTA Examinations and competitions.

 

 

Who is it for?

We offer competitions for 5-11yrs, 12-15 years, 16yrs+ and then a Parent/ Adult Team and an Inclusive Dance offer for those young people or young adults with a physical or learning disability.

 

Email: [email protected]
Call/ Text: 07519018675
Website: www.dazl.org.uk

Facebook: @dazlempire

Instagram: @dazlempire

 

 

 

DAZL Leeds Healthy Holidays 22

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DAZL Leeds Healthy Holidays

DAZL Leeds Healthy Holidays 2022 is supported by the Leeds Community Foundation and the departments of Education England. The film highlights the programme and the experiences and impacts this vital work has on families across Leeds

Throughout the year which included Easter, Summer and Christmas we deliver 4 days each week of the holiday accumulating to 7 weeks of creative camps at the DAZL HQ Studio in Middleton. We engaged 179 young people. Food provision we offered daily hot meals and breakfast and lunch and also snacks. We did Change 4 Life and food
activities with the young people making most of the cooking with DAZL resources on the DAZL website http://dazl.org.uk/healthylifestyle/ We delivered dance and crafts indoors and also outdoor activities for young people where they took part in multisports. Having multiple offers ensure we were able to have as wide a reach as possible and catered for all the young people we engaged. We also used all the resources created at Easter on
how to cook on a shoestring using the ZEST Leeds cooking book for families as a simple resource for making their shopping stretch further. We have used this resource and passed this on to other organisations too. We have also created Change 4 Life digital resources which can be viewed here https://dazl.org.uk/healthylifestyle/ The young
people engaged for full weeks and all activities were received well with fantastic feedback. We have created a film which supports this highlights the work of the young people and from DAZL.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jz4eeh6g91Y

For all our activities we provided a hot breakfast and cold option and a hot lunch each day along with snacks for 4 weeks and 4 days per week. We did receive some support from FareShare but then used supermarkets for supplementary. We also offered healthy eating sessions and any leftover food bagged up for children to take home at the end of each week.

Thank you to Leeds Community Foundation for all there support in the delivery of this project.

For more information email: [email protected] or Call/Text: 0751908675

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DAZL Wakefield Happy Healthy Holidays 22

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DAZL Wakefield Happy Healthy Holidays

DAZL Wakefield Happy Healthy Holidays 2022 supported by Wakefield Council and the departments of Education England. The film highlights the programme and the experiences and impacts this vital work has on families across Wakefield and District.

We based our activity in Normanton at Vibe Fitness, we also worked with the Wakefield Family Hub and HomeStart throughout 22 to achieve better outcomes for the children and young people we serve. The video below highlights our work from the young people and the participants.

 

 

We provided dance and wellbeing activities which include Change 4 Life activities, dance, Multisport, crafts
and creative activities. These activities were provided by the DAZL team and our experienced workers plus that of
our partners. We also offered a cook along sessions via the DAZL wellbeing worker and this was in person but you could also do this at home via our healthy lifestyle page www.dazl.org.uk/healthylifestyles . The young people could access our other activities at home after attending our face to face activities.

Film created by Wayne Sables Project

For more information on our 2023 programmes please email [email protected] or call/ text: 07519018675

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DAZL Batley 2022-23

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DAZL have been delivering working in Batley for the past year at Mack Studios to empower young women and girls.

This work has been supported by the National Lottery Community Fund. We create a short documentary and dance film which highlights the young women’s experiences and ambitions. “Dance Unities” is a short dance film, filmed around their home town of Batley by Film maker Wayne Sables Project.

 

DAZL – Dance & Health Charity #Batley this summer worked with Wayne Sables Project on a dance film.

Here is the documentary which goes with that.

If you live in Batley or surrounding areas we meet #Wednesdays and are based Mack Studio Batley, 24 Field Lane, Batley, WF17 5AG (Enter at the rear) 

Contact: [email protected]

Call/Text: 07519018675

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The group take part in Cheerdance and HipHip competitions and work with the amazing Chloe Hayley from DAZL.

Dis-Ability Documentry Part 2

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In 2020-21 Dance Inclusive dance team were followed for 6moths by Film maker Wayne Sables.

View via our Vimeo Channel Here: https://vimeo.com/manage/videos/670326586

The film looked at the whole family and the daily obstacles and struggles the dancers have to overcome. We believe all young people with a physical or learning disability should have the chance to express themselves through dance.

This year, in Summer 2022 we worked with the inclusive dancers for a 3-day intensive exploring new movement language. Filmed by Wayne Sables working with the following dance specialist

  • Steven Wilson “Empire Dance Troop” Rock N Roll
  • Mason Jubb “DAZL & Inderpendent Artist” Contempoary
  • Stephanie Dobson “DAZL & Independent Artist” HipHop/ Street
  • Fallon Coope & Kaci Emmonds “DAZL & Empire Dance Troop” Cheerdance

The film was created and produced around the dancer and a focus on the dancers experiances from their own voices. Supported and led by group leader Chrisie Emmonds.

Film project supported by Leeds Community Foundation and the Mohan Westlake Arts Education Fund.

 

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Email: [email protected]

Call/Text: 07519018675

DAZL Dance-Fit (Keep Moving Leeds)

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DAZL Dancer Fitness Programme

DAZL offer a series of dance fitness sessions aim to engage women and girls in physical activitiy. The programme is designed to give women a safe space to feel good, get active and connect with their community. All sessions are designed to be inclusive and each exersize has a variaty of progressions and regressions (easier or hard versions) so eveyone can fully participate and get the most of out the classes.

 

Chrisie from DAZL Says: It’s much easier to exercise when you’re having fun! And Public Health Leeds, Sport England #TogetherFund have supported Dance Action Zone Leeds (DAZL) so you can get as fit as possible whilst having as much fun as possible. We welcome all women to come and find out how dancing can be beneficial to our physical and mental health. Lets do it together!

 

Have e a look a this video created by Leeds Local TV about this programme.

 

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Call/Text: 07519018675

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DAZL Excel Digital Sharing

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This year we auditioned our first cohort of dancers as part of the DAZL Excel Training Programme.

 

DAZL Excel Training Programme over the summer created artistic work. The students from the programme took their stage work and transferred this to film to explore how this can change the piece and how different mediums can enhance the work they have created. Working with Choreographers Mason Jubb and Megan Pennington in partnership with Wayne Sables Project, This programme was supported by Arts @ Leeds and The Leeds Community Foundation, Flint Family Fund.

 

Please watch the below 12min showcase, follow the DAZL Excel Training Programme on social (Facebook and Instagram) @dazlexcel

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ShLVU3TqTf4

 

Here is link with an interview from the DAZL Dance Leaders and how been involved in DAZL Excel with the support from the Flint Family Fund has helped them.