Free dance classes for everyone - find yours!
TeesDance runs free, inclusive dance programmes across all five Tees Valley boroughs — Middlesbrough, Stockton-on-Tees, Hartlepool, Darlington, and Redcar and Cleveland. Whether you're a baby taking your first wobbly steps, an older adult who's never danced in your life, or a young person ready to take dance seriously — there's a programme for you!
Browse our programmes below.
Find TeesDance sessions near you.
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Your dance journey - from first session to the stage.
TeesDance builds pathways, not just sessions. Our community programmes are the starting point - but for people who want to go further, we've got routes that lead to performing, choreographing and developing as an artist.
- BABIES & CARERS
MoveBaby
Your baby's first dance class.
Gentle, sensory movement for babies and their parents or carers - led by a TeesDance artist who works beautifully with very young children. As much for you as it is for your baby.
📍 Thorntree Family Hub, Middlesbrough
👶 Babies & carers
🗓 Thursdays 1pm
💷 Free
- FAMILIES
MoveTogether
The whole family, moving together.
Intergenerational dance for babies, children, parents and grandparents - all in the same room, no judgement, no pressure. An hour that belongs to your family.
📍 Boosbeck Village Hall, East Cleveland
👥 All families
🗓 Thursdays 5pm
💷 Free
- OVER 50’S
MoveAlways
It's never too late to start.
Weekly dance and social sessions for older adults across East Cleveland - joyful, unhurried, and completely free. Whether you've danced all your life or never once set foot on a dancefloor, you're exactly who this is for.
📍Boosbeck Village Hall @ 10am on Mondays
📍Skelton Youth & Community Centre @ 12:30pm on Mondays
📍The Loftus Club @ 10am on Fridays
👥 Adults 50+
🗓 Weekly
💷 Free
- YOUNG PEOPLE
Youth Dance Company
Serious dance for young people who mean it.
A proper contemporary dance company for 11–19 year olds - create original work, rehearse with professional artists, and perform in real venues. We've already been to Sadler's Wells. This is the real thing.
📍 Fridays @ 6pm
👥 Ages 11–19
- YOUNG PEOPLE
MoveRise
Dance for young people facing the biggest barriers.
Trauma-informed, care-led dance with young people experiencing care, homelessness, mental health challenges and exclusion - delivered through trusted youth organisations across the Tees Valley. For referral partners and commissioners.
📍 MyPlace, Middlesbrough
🗓 Thursdays @ 5-6pm (starting again from Thursday 10th September > Thursday 22nd October)
👥 Care experience young people
💷 Free
Not sure what programme is right for you?
Get in touch - we'll help you find the right fit. There's no wrong answer, and no such thing as the wrong person for dance.
