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Golden Slumbers leaves its mark

After 13 performances across six locations, Golden Slumbers has completed its 2025 tour! This has been our most ambitious production to date, bringing together our Core Company, creative facilitators, a live band (The Slumbers), and an extraordinary chorus of 42 Glories. Together, they created a rich and moving show that explored the endless cycle of […]

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Four women in white clothes. One is lying on a white bed with a canopy. The other three are standing around the bed. The background is black.

Strange Tourist: ‘Old dried up prunes’ take the stage in a playful protest against ageism

This article was originally published by Strange Tourist here on 1st March 2025. “It does things to you,” says Sian Stevenson, Creative Director of Moving Memory, as she describes the luxurious gold...
Three smiling women wear yellow umbrella hats against a dark backdrop. The person on the left has short brown hair and a blue cardigan, the center person has gray hair and glasses with crossed arms, and the rightmost person has curly brown hair and a green sweater with a colorful scarf.

Let’s Dance! celebrations

We celebrated Let’s Dance! yesterday – a nationwide movement bringing together dance organisations, charities, health professionals, community groups, and celebrities, all with one goal: to get more people dancing. And...
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We’re recruiting new Trustees

We’re looking for two new Trustees to join the Board of Directors of Moving Memory Dance Theatre in 2025. This is a great opportunity to work with a small scale...
4 women dressed in white, push a brass 4 poster bed while a woman lies in the bed fast asleep under white sheets.

New show – Golden Slumbers

We’re thrilled to have been awarded Arts Council England project funding to develop our new show Golden Slumbers for touring in 2025. Building on the Welsh concept of Cwtch –...
A group of people dressed in colour clothing dance in a hall with arms outstretched.

Groovin Well feedback report

This Autumn, we asked Canterbury u3a (University of the 3rd Age) to interview participants of our Groovin Well groups in Dover, Canterbury, Lordswood and Margate in order to gather feedback...
7 women dressed in Christmas pyjamas have a pillow fight

Annual Report & Accounts 2023-24

A huge thank you to everyone who came along to our AGM at the University of Kent on Thursday 5 December. We were delighted to see so many friends and...

Shostakovich 8

On 6 October 2024, Sacconi String Quartet came together with Moving Memory’s Dover Groovin Well and Intergen groups to explore what happens when Movers meet Musicians and Shostakovich’s String Quartet...
A group of people dance in coloured clothes.

The Devil’s Doorbell Curtain-raiser

This Autumn, our Groovin Well group at The Beaney, Canterbury will be Taking our Spirits to the Sky by working towards a curtain-raiser for The Devil’s Doorbell at Gulbenkian Arts Centre...
Two women with their backs to us, wearing Grooving Well T-shirts dance with a group of people in coloured clothing.

Dover Groovin Well

Funded by Dover Town Council and Social Enterprise Kent, Moving Memory’s Dover Groovin Well group has been moving and making together for the last 6 months at Biggin Hall thanks...