HEARTBEAT BALLROOM

BACKGROUND

In 2012 I was asked by The Wallsend Memorial Hall and Peoples centre (The MEM) to write a new song to mark the re- opening of the building.  When I was researching peoples stories of their times in the ballroom I fell in love with the space and I always knew that I would like to revisit the song and the space again. 

Fast forward to 2018 and ‘Katie Doherty and the Navigators’ have a new album about to be released.  This project has been born out of the song Heartbeat Ballroom and Katie and the teams desire to produce a music video to accompany it, to celebrate the people and the place that is Wallsend and the long tradition of social dancing in this magnificent Ballroom

FUNDING

Funding for this project came from Wallsend Action for Youth (WafY) and Arts Council England.  We also had support from the MEM to which we are extremely grateful.

PROJECT DETAILS

We worked with 200 local school children, local people and the tea dancers from the MEM to produce a mass choreographed dance piece and a story created by Laura Lindow.