NGYT Dance Company 14-25

NGYT Meraki Dance Company (14-25)

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NGYT’s award winning Dance Company is made up of young people aged 14- 25 who are are currently studying dance as well as dance graduates, semi professional and professional dancers.
The company meet for 2 hours a week developing company repertoire, improvising and developing material and ideas for their own original work or commissioned pieces.

Auditions for Meraki Dance Company will be held in Autumn 2025. This is a unique opportunity to collaborate with other artists and create high-quality, authentic work that pushes boundaries, challenges audience perspectives, and amplifies vital voices that are too often unheard in our society.

Our Company members are offered free headshots, access to free workshop opportunities with professional theatre and dance companies and tickets to shows from The Culture Trust, our Patrons and Associate Artists.

Upcoming Audition Dates:
Monday 10th November 2025
Monday 17th November 2025
The Hat Factory Arts Centre, Luton LU1 7:30pm-9:30pm

Please complete a sign up form at the button above to register your interest and we will be in touch via enquiries@ngyt.co.uk to book in your audition date.

Notably the dance company have been invited to perform at a number of prestigious events including:

The Royal Opera House Bridge: Ahead for Culture Conference at The Royal Opera House
Mótus Dance Festival in Milton Keynes
Lord Lieutenant of Bedfordshire's Thanksgiving Service
Black Lives Matter as part of People Power Passion
BBC 3 Counties Radio Awards
Dundu Luton event commissioned by Revoluton Arts
Beyoncé Flashmob at Hat Factory Lates
Factory Reset: The reopening of The Hat Factory Arts Centre commissioned by Tangled Feet.

The company work with Artistic Directors Laura and David Lloyd to create original pieces of dance theatre about the issues that directly affect them and things they feel passionately about. In the past the company have toured, appeared at festivals and received critical acclaim locally and nationally.

Previous pieces choreography was described as:

“Exquisite”

"Beautiful storytelling through dance"

"Exceptional choreography"

"They moved like water. I couldn’t take my eyes off of them. It’s the best dance show I’ve ever seen."

"If decision makers want to know what young people in Luton feel, they need to come and see an NGYT show. You get to see what matters to young people."

“I have always been left inspired by the work of NGYT; the intelligent simplicity and effectiveness of their work is to be applauded. Their work is original, thoughtful and of fantastic standard-it is of absolute pleasure that I am dance patron and look forward to future involvement with the company.” - Helen Parlor (Choreograoher, late NGYT Patron)

NGYT Dance Company hold open auditions once a year. If you'd like to know more please complete our sign up sheet and we will be sure to send you more information about the company and our next audition dates.

In the meantime if you have any questions simply email our company director
laura@ngyt.co.uk and she'll be happy to help.

Our past productions