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Celebrating 22 years of dance and wellbeing
About Ascendance
Ascendance is a charitable dance company, founded and led by Artistic Director, Rachel Wesson. This year we are celebrating 22 years of outreach, dance and film works for site-specific and theatre venues by leading choreographers.
The organisation currently works across the local community providing high quality arts projects for older people, which improve health & wellbeing through dance exercise, social interaction and performance driven projects.
Ascendance work closely with partners Kala Sangam, MS Society, Marie Curie Hospice, Parkinson’s UK, Fighting Fit, Yorkshire Dance, Leeds Rhinos ABC programme to deliver a broad outreach programme, which reaches the many different communities across Yorkshire.
DANCING WITH PARKINSON'S
We now run a thriving Dancing with Parkinson’s programme, Led by Rachel Wesson, Emma Clayton and Izzy Brittain in 4 locations across Leeds & Bradford. We have now moved our programme on line but we are planning to get back to the studio soon!
This specialist strand is for people with movement disorders to keep the mind and body active, increase confidence, aid mobility, balance, flexibility and encourage more independent and active lives. The activity is also designed to empower individuals to discover talents and raise aspirations for themselves and their local communities.
Let's dance classes
All our dance classes are on now on Zoom - Find out more about our specialist classes for older adults who want to stay active for longer!
Ascendance films
Enjoy our gallery of videos and find out about our exciting 360 VR Dance Surrounds projects
Meet the team
Rachel, Emma, Izzy, Caroline and Lucy are the passionate professionals at the heart of Ascendance
Latest from Ascendance
Georgia Jakubiak is a vocalist, teacher and composer. She graduated from Bretton Hall of Leeds University with a BAHons in Popular Music Studies and soon after joined indie pop band ‘The Research’ on bass guitar […]
Join us for the launch of Portal by Filmmaker Lucy Barker in collaboration with Ascendance. The film captures the magical rehearsal process of Ascendance's "Dance with Parkinson's" class, featuring experimental 360 footage taken across Saltaire's […]
Lucy Barker is an experienced producer, filmmaker and interdisciplinary artist who is a specialist in facilitating community projects and 360° VR Film work. Lucy has worked closely with Ascendance over the past 3 years with […]
Ascendance Videos
