Hampshire Youth Dance Company (HYDC) has a well-established reputation for the high quality of its work and the opportunities it offers talented dancers. Many past members have gone on to pursue full-time dance training and to embark on dance careers.

The company works in contemporary dance and rehearses weekly and during October and February half-terms in Eastleigh.

Carrie Whitaker of Lila Dance is the company’s rehearsal director and has been working with the group since September 2006.

The company has worked with a diverse range of professional choreographers including: Aletta Collins, Colin Poole, Bawren Tavaziva, Ben Wright, Keira Martin and Jonathan Lunn.

HYDC were successful in being selected to perform in the National Youth Dance Festival 2008 and have performed in numerous venues across the south east.

In 2004 the company took part in Innervations a ground-breaking collaboration with a neuroscientist supported by the Wellcome Trust.

This year they will take part in an exciting project with the Institute of Sound and Vibration Research at the University of Southampton, which will lead to a regional tour in spring 2010.

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This is a video of HYDC performing at the Hothouse 2009 dance platform at The Point, Eastleigh. It shows part of Debutante choreographed by Ben Wright. The piece was created in four days and aimed to unite a group of women in a display of strength and solidarity.
It was filmed by Cass Productions