

PAST EVENTS
Performance at the National Portrait Gallery Reflecting art of the Tudor period through dance *Residency* Monday 26th - Friday 30th July Rehearsals will be in residency at The National Portrait Gallery. Performances Concealed and Revealed Within the residency, a site-specific dance piece is performed in the Tudor gallery, featuring Union Too, Union Dance's youth group, and choreographer Gerrard Martin. This work will reveal the symbols of wisdom reflected in Concealed and Revealed: The Changing Faces of Elizabeth I. Friday 30th July 2010 6.00pm & 6.30pm St Martin's Place London WC2H 0HE Click here to download the booking form.

Union Dance and the London Lucumi Choir Performance Fuse : Arts Village Time and the Trickster's Heart - Dance Cantata The London Lucumi Choir and Union Dance are joining forces in an exciting collaboration, creating a dance cantata from Juwon Ogungbe's choral work "Time and the Trickster's Heart" Excerpts from the first performance of the piece were broadcast on "Network Africa" of the BBC world Services in 2009. In this new iniciative with Union Dance, Corrine Bougaard (union's artistic director) is to choreographe dance sequences to complement and highlight the choir's performances of the work. The choreography in collaboration with the dancers, celebrating transformation is inspired by Cuban bata dances of the Santeria faith. Sunday 25th July 2010 3.15 and 6.40pm Arts Village, Westminster Kensington Gardens

Union Too Youth Group with National Youth Jazz Orchestra Dizzy Dancing Performance! T-Mobile Big Dance Live music and dance at the Cockpit Theatre Pete Long, one of the UK's top jazz players, conductors and arrangers, will rehearse and conduct the music, Corrine Bougaard, Artistic Director of Union Dance, and Choreographer Naomi Deira will, with the dance ensemble, Westminster Union Too Youth Group and Union Members Vanessa Abreu and Gianni Grot give a fresh 2010 dance experience to the Gillespie music for Big Dance. Saturday 10th July 2010 7.30pm Cockpit Theatre  Gateforth Street London NW8 8EH Ticket Price: £5.00 Photo by: Carla Cerri

Union Dance at Church Street Festival 2010 Sunday 4th July 2010 1.30pm Church Street Market NW8

Union Too Performance at South West Festival Saturday 26th June 2010 3.30pm St. George's Square Pimlico SW1

Performance at the London Transport Museum T-Mobile Big Dance To mark the official launch of the Big Dance 6 week Countdown and to commemorate the opening of the East London Line Using London Transport Museum's collection and the newly extended East London Line for inspiration, performer choreographers Vanessa Abreu, Naomi Deira and Gianni Grot from Union Dance show duets with Kiraly Saint Claire of Union Too Youth Group, who have worked to create a dance performance featuring poetry by Amith Rahman. Tuesday 25th May 2010 3.00 - 3.30pm & 4.00 — 4.30pm London Transport Museum  Covent Garden Piazza  London WC2E 7BB For East London Line Extension free entry download leaflet in May

Westfield Big Dance Performance T-Mobile Big Dance To mark the official launch of the T-Mobile Big Dance *6 week Countdown* in West London This event is part of a whole weekend of dance activity taking place in the main atrium at Westfield Shopping Centre — a collaborative project between Westfield, English National Ballet, Union Dance and T-Mobile (Big Dance official sponsors). Choreographers Vanessa Abreu and Naomi Deira will première two edgy duets. Saturday 22nd May 2010 5.00pm to 5.30pm Westfield Shopping Centre Ariel Way London W12 7SL