💃 Theme: 10 Years of Dance 🕺
This year is an extra special one as we celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Chippenham Dance Festival!
For the past decade, the festival has brought local primary schools together, giving hundreds of children the opportunity to step onto the stage, perform in front of family and friends, build confidence and celebrate their love of dance.
✨ 10 years of dance
⭐ 10 years of confidence
🎭 10 years of children taking to the stage
❤️ 10 years of bringing our school community together
To celebrate this fantastic milestone, our theme for 2027 is “10 Years of Dance.”
Schools are invited to choose music and create a performance inspired by the last 10 years. This could be a favourite song, a dance trend, a memorable moment from the decade, or simply a track that your pupils absolutely love dancing to!
Whether you’ve been part of the festival from the beginning or are joining us for the very first time, we’d love you to be part of what we hope will be our biggest and most memorable Dance Festival yet!
📍 Event Details
- Date: Monday 1st March
- Venue: Neeld Hall, Chippenham
- Doors Open: 6:00pm
- Show Starts: 6:30pm
- Finish: Approximately 8:30pm
🎟 Tickets
- £4.00 each, including a programme
- Due to limited seating, tickets will initially be limited to 1.5 tickets per participating family
- Tickets will be available on a first come, first served basis
📅 Key Dates
- Booking opens: 1st October
- Tickets distributed: 8th January
- Ticket collection deadline: TBC
- After the collection deadline, any remaining tickets will be available from Abbeyfield School
A huge thank you to An Apple A Day Supply for supporting our Dance Festival and helping us continue to give children the opportunity to shine on stage, grow in confidence and create fantastic memories.
🌟 10 years. Hundreds of children. One amazing celebration of dance! 🌟
For more details / questions please contact Jessica Pierce or email jep@abbeyfield.wilts.sch.uk
For those schools joining us for the first time and want to know how it works, please check out “what to expect” – https://youtu.be/FHVT0TagyBU
A tour of the Neeld – 2025 Dance Festival
What happens on the night of the Dance Festival
TICKET ALLOCATION:
Ticket information
Tickets: The Neeld Hall seating accommodates an audience of 216 people per night, which means each family will be allocated tickets for 1 or 2 adults only. As in previous years, each school will receive tickets based on a 1.5 allocation per child.
This system ensures that at least one parent per child will have the opportunity to watch the performance, with the possibility of two tickets in some cases. While we’d love to offer two tickets per child, we hope you understand that due to space limitations at the venue, this isn’t always possible.
Previous years themes have included:
2017 – Movie Nights / 2018 – Dance Through The Ages / 2019 – West end Musicals / 2020 – The Olympics / 2021 – “Virtual” covid year free style / 2022 – Top Of The Pops / 2023 – Back to the 90s / 2024 – Around the world / 2025 – “Lights, Camera, Dance! / 2026 – “Its in the game” / 2027 – 10 years of Dance