About Mixed Bill: Seasoned

A night of new work by Over 60s dance companies celebrating the joy, creativity and community that has been shaped by a lifelong relationship with dance.

Over 100 performers from community groups and companies including The Place’s Over 60s group, Royal Academy of Dance’s Silver Swans, Trinity Laban's Over 60s Dance, EncoreEast, Damn Fine Dance, Quercum and Akademi & Third Age Project come together on stage at The Place.

The event is part of Let’s Dance 2026, a national campaign founded by Angela Rippon CBE to inspire everyone in the UK to embrace dance as a way to improve their health, connect with others, and have fun.

The ambition, professionalism and sheer joy of The Place’s Over 60s community perfectly captures what the campaign is all about, and the showcase at The Place is certain to be a highlight of Let's Dance this year.
Angela Rippon CBE

About the companies

The Place’s over-60s contemporary dance community take part in weekly classes, intensives, and performance projects. Formerly performing as part of Home From Home, they brought together 50 dancers aged 60+ for sold-out shows across the UK in 2023 and at the Let’s Dance launch in 2025. They will premiere a new work by Becky Namgauds at the Let’s Dance Press Launch 2026 and as part of Mixed Bill: Seasoned.

Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance is based in South East London. Trinity Laban’s creative health programmes provide adults in the local community with high-quality arts experiences that support wellbeing and enrich everyday life.

EncoreEast, based at DanceEast in Ipswich, is a performing company of 20 dancers aged 53 to 84. The company produced Home from Home, involving around 50 dancers from four companies, which was performed in Ipswich, Norwich, and at The Place. They also co-produce HOST with DanceEast and have performed in Chichester, Tunbridge Wells, Turin, and Rome.

Silver Swans classes are ballet classes designed by the Royal Academy of Dance specifically for older learners to help improve mobility, posture, and co-ordination, and boost energy levels. Today, you will see a performance by a group of Silver Swans students from the Academy’s own dance school, based at its headquarters in Battersea.

Akademi, established in 1979, is one of UK’s leading dance organisations, creating, commissioning, and delivering high-quality South Asian dance programmes. The Third Age Project (TAP) is an older people's charity that supports and empowers disadvantaged local older people in Camden. Akademi artist Georgia Cornwall leads weekly South Asian dance classes at TAP as part of their wellbeing programme Dance Well.

Damn Fine Dance is a vibrant and unapologetic 60+ Dance company based in East London. Founded by Molly Wright and Luke Birch.

Quercum was founded in 2024 by Judith Curry to create intergenerational dance works that demonstrate the ongoing creative and expressive power of older dancers. Sarah Jackson has played a pivotal role since the outset as both producer and choreographer.

About Let's Dance

Let’s Dance is a nation-wide movement of dance organisations, charities, health professionals, community groups, celebrities getting together over the weekend of 7 - 8 March.

Let's Dance aims to raise awareness for the benefits of dance, for your mental and physical health, make it easier than ever for people to join in and find a suitable dance activity, whatever their fitness level, age or experience, and bring people together across divides to connect through dance.

Dancing brings a unique combination of benefits to individuals, communities, and society. Dance gets people moving – together – to tackle chronic health challenges, combat loneliness, and spend time with people we wouldn’t usually meet.