The Stage

Rural Touring Dance Initiative: Contemporary dance heads to the UK’s furthest corners

Since 2015, the RTDI’s mission has been to bring pioneering dance companies to village halls and community venues from north-east Scotland to the tip of Cornwall. Choreographers and organisers tell ...
BroadwayWorld

Rural Touring Dance Initiative Receives ACE Funding to Boost Dance in Rural Areas

3 Universal Studios UK Theme Park Approved in Bedford Opening Door to Potential WICKED-Themed Experiences An innovative partnership founded to increase touring by dance companies to rural areas has ...
BroadwayWorld

Rural Touring Dance Initiative Announces Its New Season

As slowly but surely the days begin to lengthen, it's time to announce the latest programme of dance coming to village halls and community venues as part of the Rural Touring Dance Initiative (RTDI).
The Stage

Rural touring can revitalise dance sector – report

Rural touring can be a "gateway" to encouraging new dance audiences and a way of reinvigorating the "broken" dance touring model, a report has concluded. Research by the Rural Touring Dance Initiative ...
The Brooklyn Paper

Hip to be square: Ridge couple keeping rural dance alive

They’re the original hipsters. A pair of septuagenarian Bay Ridge residents have been bringing a slice of Americana to Brooklyn for more than 30 years — and they’re not being ironic about it. Kentucky ...
Dhaka Tribune

IFAD launches dance challenge to empower rural youth to fight rising hunger

The United Nations’ International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) has launched an innovative global dance challenge, asking young people to make their moves matter and record a 15-second ...