tea dance

Join the Tea Dance With A Twist at Plymouth's Drake Circus

People with dementia are being encouraged to don their dancing shoes for a special event in Plymouth.

Drake Circus shopping centre is hosting a Dementia Tea Dance on March 22, run by Plymouth Dance - the organisers of the popular Tea Dance with a Twist events.

The special dance session – which runs from 10am until 1pm – will see volunteers and dementia trained dance...

Music: The Roaring Twenties Tea Dance Featuring the ArtDeco Band

Live jazz performed by the ArtDeco Band Steve Chisolm, band leader

Led by vocalist Steve Chisolm, for many years resident ‘crooner’ at the famous Burgh Island Hotel, ArtDeco recreates the authentic sounds of the jazz and ‘hot’ jazz bands of the 1920s.

Join in, show off your Charleston and enjoy afternoon tea in the elegant Duke of Cornwall Ballroom. Period 1920s costumes invited, but not essential.

Tickets £17.50 (including afternoon tea)

Part of the 2017 Words and Music Festival including: Film: Some Like It Hot (1959) Talk: Dr Jody Patterson - Rhapsodies...

Tea Dance with a Twist!

The final in the current run of Tea Dance with a Twist! events takes place this Saturday 13 August at Plymouth Guildhall. Whether you prefer to waltz, jive, cha cha cha or lindy hop, or even if you’re a complete novice, Tea Dance with a Twist! is a chance to don your dancing shoes and trip the light fantastic down memory lane.

‘Awesome! Fantastic! One of the best tea parties I’ve been...