CHINESE DANCE WORKSHOPS

You can experience the tradition and beauty of Chinese dance with our exciting Chinese dance workshops


You can experience our Chinese workshops for Chinese New Year 2024 in early Feb to celebrate, or all year round with our Chinese dance workshops.

2024 is the Year of the Dragon. People born under the sign of the Dragon are said to be confident, powerful, lucky and gifted!

Chinese props

We show lots of props before starting the dance workshops – this makes it really interactive for the participants and children love exploring new things. It also gives them a bit of background about a different culture.

Things such as lanterns, a Chinese flag, lion puppet, lucky hanging ornaments, decorative fans, pictures of Dragon dances and costumes.

(see pic on the right for all the props)

Your zest teacher will also wear a Chinese outfit.

Chinese Fan Dance

Your students will then get to learn an exciting traditional Fan Dance. They can pre make their own simple paper fans before we come in, if you want to make that into an activity to link with it. Or we can bring in Chinese paper fans for everyone to use. Just let us know which you’d prefer.

Chinese New Year

If you want a dance workshops celebrating the Chinese New Year, your workshop will start with the dance teacher telling the story of the new year and how the animals came to be those chosen ones in the zodiac. It’s a really fun story, especially for early years and KS1 classes.

They will then teach everyone a traditional Chinese dance using the fan props.

Read our blog for a more details account of a Chinese dance day we ran at Belmont Junior School.

Here are some examples of fans students have made for their dances…



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Why not treat your pupils to a dance workshop? We are based in London but have teachers across the UK to bring our workshops to you.