Monday 15th June sees the start of national Learning Disability Week 2026. This year, the theme is “Do you see me?”
This is something that DanceSyndrome’s dancers have considered a lot in recent years, as we work to raise awareness about what people with learning disabilities can achieve when given the right support and opportunities.
DanceSyndrome is an inclusive dance charity supporting people with learning disabilities to access a wide range of opportunities in community dance. A huge part of our mission is to challenge the way that society sees people with learning disabilities and what they are able to achieve. We challenge the barriers that people with a learning disability face by demonstrating and celebrating the amazing work that our Dance Leaders with learning disabilities are doing. This is exactly what the national #LDWeek campaign is about.
During Learning Disability Week, we want to amplify the voices of our Dance Leaders with learning disabilities, and make them more visible by sharing the ways that they use dance to challenge perceptions and help them to feel more visible in their communities. They truly demonstrate how people with learning disabilities can achieve amazing things when they are seen and supported properly by wider society.
You can check out the daily Learning Disability Week 2026 posts on our social media channels: Facebook, Bluesky, Instagram, LinkedIn & YouTube.
How to get involved
We hope that you will join us this week at one of our events, or by joining the conversation on social media. We hope to inspire people to see how much people with learning disabilities are able to achieve if they are given the right support. As a small charity, our mission is to provide the support needed so that people with learning disabilities can not just be included in dance sessions, but can take on visible leadership roles. Our work transforms lives for people who might not be able to access those opportunities elsewhere, and we’d love for you to get involved!
Join a Community Dance Session
If you’re looking for a new dance activity, we have community dance sessions across Lancashire, as well as a range of session online via Zoom.
Our Everybody Dance workshops are co-produced and co-delivered by a professional Dance Artist and a Dance Leader with a disability and explore taught dance, travel, connection exercises, and creative tasks which allow each participant’s voice to be heard and all ideas to be shared.
Check out the full list of activities and book online on the Book a Session page.
Watch a Performance
We are looking forward to presenting our next major performance at The Lowry, Salford on Thursday 19th November 2026.
Developed through DanceSyndrome’s iCreate programme, which places Artists with learning disabilities at the heart of the collaborative process, ORIGIN is a mixed bill of six newly commissioned works, created with international choreographers.
We hope you will join us for this joyful, daring and deeply original celebration of creativity, where all Artists are seen and valued.
Training for Organisations
Our inclusion workshops examine inclusive practice from the perspective of people with learning disabilities.
We look at specific barriers that people with learning disabilities may face and consider how we can break down these barriers in our own settings.
If you would like to know more about how DanceSyndrome can support your business to create more inclusive spaces, visit the Inclusion Workshops page.
If you would like to support DanceSyndrome’s life-changing work with people with learning disabilities during Learning Disability Awareness Week, please visit our Donate page or donate directly using the form below.
