The first Bridport Dance Festival held in May 2025 was a wonderful vibrant event with dancers on the streets and in venues around Bridport. With workshops, performances and audiences from ages 10 to 85 plus including dancers who are neurodiverse and dancers managing illness for example Parkinsons, scoliosis, cancer and other conditions.

Our aim with this Festival is to create a workshop and performance platform in support of community dance groups and also professional dancers in and around Bridport and Dorset. We aim to gather dancers from different age groups and levels of dance experience and ethnic backgrounds and bring them together to celebrate a range of different dance styles and traditions. We celebrate as many dance and movement forms as possible.

We aim to bring together different cultures and differently abled people and create dance for mental and physical health and wellbeing , connecting communities from different parts of Bridport and Dorset. We aim to produce dance and Film with artistic merit.