BOOGIE BUDDIES, a new dance initiative from the award winning Glasgowbury Music Group, will launch in Mid-Ulster in April.

Offered as an alternative art form and strand of recreation, the programme will offer children aged 8-18 the chance to get involved in a professionally run eight week dance course.

Organised by Glasgowbury in partnership with Derry based Echo Echo Dance Theatre Company, the course will provide an introduction to dance and alternative dance structures for both girls and boys.

As NI’s leading contemporary dance company, Echo Echo will organise a programme of activity that focuses on building self-confidence and body awareness as well as nurturing their imaginations and creativity.

The groups will play movement games, learn and follow choreography, improvise and create their own dance sequences.

All classes include warming up and cooling down, the famous Echo Echo circle dance and learning about your body and how it moves.

Echo Echo’s style of dance is creative and accessible by all abilities, shapes and sizes and the company’s ethos is that everyone can dance – because dance is an extension of your everyday movement.

Sessions will be split into two age categories and will take place on Wednesdays. Classes for those aged 8-11 will operate from 3.30pm to 4.30pm and for those aged 12-18 will take place from 5pm to 6pm.

A limited number of places are available for the eight week dance course which will take place at St Colm’s High School, Draperstown from mid-April and those aged 8-18 are encouraged to register with Glasgowbury soon.

For more information and to register, contact Glasgowbury on 028 796 28428 or call into their office in Draperstown.

The Boogie Buddies Programme has been funded through DARD’s Rural Challenge Programme.