CREATIVE HEALTH & WELLBEING

About Ascendance

Ascendance is a creative charity, dedicated to health and well-being, offering dance classes and performance opportunities with our inclusive community company Fuse Dance Collective. Whether in a local community venue, a care setting or on the internet via Zoom, Ascendance provide a welcoming and friendly community with a sense of belonging and joy.

 

Join our welcoming dance community

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Ascendance is now signing up new members for our Dance Wellness classes at Bradford & Leeds & on-line.

Join our Autumn term we'd love to see you there!

Classes are led with expert local teachers, classes aims to help you feel energised, stay motivated and regain confidence - as well as supporting your physical, mental and social wellbeing.

 

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Watch us on Look North

Dance Wellness classes

We have 9 regular classes running across Leeds & Bradford. We are on Zoom too!

Parkinson's & Dementia Programme

We have a team of specialist & experienced teachers to get you moving..

Fuse Dance Collective

Join the Fuse Dance Collective journey, an inclusive performance company...

Latest from Ascendance

November 9, 2024
BBC Radio Leeds Interview

Did you catch us on BBC Radio Leeds? Emma Clayton & David Ainsworth discuss all things Dance with Parkinson's and how you can take part in our community outreach classes across Leeds. If you missed […]

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November 9, 2024
Ascendance dance captivates Headingley Stadium crowd

“ As part of International Day of older people New Wortley’s fabulous Ascendance dance crew teamed up with all the other Ascendance squads to dazzle the crowd with a spectacular cabaret show at Headingley Stadium”

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October 29, 2024
Dance Wellness Diaries - By David Ainsworth

Rewind 50 years. St. Margaret’s Junior School. We are in a cavernous school assembly hall with all the dining tables and chairs, and gym apparatus stowed away, because today it’s… Country Dancing! I can still hear the groans from all the boys.

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October 14, 2024
Becoming a Dancer in Later Life by Bren Neale

Becoming involved in a new love affair in your 70s may not be considered a common experience. But it has happened to me. Over the past year I have fallen in love, hook, line and sinker, with Ascendance.

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October 9, 2024
International Day of Older People 2024

Ascendance had an absolute blast celebrating #IDOP2024 last week at AMT Headingley Stadium with 30 dancers joining forces from - Wortley Waltzers- Morley Movers- Leeds Rhinos Foundation Group- Fuse Dance Collective Watch us in action!

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September 11, 2024
Dance Wellness Diaries

It’s Wednesday 10th July 2024. The summer sun of the afternoon has relaxed into a balmy evening. It’s been a tiring day; a tiring few weeks, with everything seemingly gearing itself towards this final moment. Will we manage it? Our tiring limbs tighten for one final effort. Then it happens – in the final minute of the match Ollie Watkins fires home the winner from a tight angle. That’s it; with England 2 The Netherlands1. Ecstasy.

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