INCLUSIVE dance company Stopgap will hold its annual community dance platform ‘Winter Stars’ at Farnham Maltings on Monday, December 12, sponsored by the Farnham Institute Charity.

Stopgap is a charitable organisation, based at Farnham Maltings, that creates exciting dance shows with professional disabled and non-disabled artists.

The company is the UK’s leading expert in inclusive dance practice and runs a number of youth dance companies in the Farnham area and the South East, as well as touring across the world.

‘Winter Stars’ will see Stopgap feature new works by its 70 youth dancers including excerpts from ‘Moon Language’, a recent community collaboration project with The Lights in Andover.

The performance will once more celebrate the hard work and dedication of all the young dancers, awarding those who have taken their first assessment as part of Stopgap’s Include, Respond, Integrate, Specialise (IRIS) programme, an inclusive dance syllabus Stopgap are developing and piloting in effort to tackle the prevalent inequality in dance education.

The award for the dancer who has made best progress in the year will be presented by Andrew Lodge, chairman of the Farnham Institute Charity.

Winter Stars has taken inspiration from the solar system this year, with each group’s interpretation taking the audience on a journey through space, past moons and planets, chasing shooting stars.

The performance will begin at 7pm on Monday, December 12, in the Great Hall of the Maltings and is free to attend, with donations welcomed on the door.

For more information about any of Stopgap’s youth companies or Winter Stars alternatively email [email protected] or call 01252 745443.