Dance workshops for
World Book Day
✓ Reception - Year 6
✓ Led by a professional dancer
✓ Available throughout the UK
✓ Delivered in your school hall
Dance workshops for World Book Day that inspire your children to become storytellers
Booking now open for World Book Day celebrations 2025, book ahead for the best choice of dates!
Created in the heart of London’s West End, our dance workshops give children a unique insight into books by using dance and movement to tell stories.
We can bring your whole school together to perform a choreographed version of Alice in Wonderland in just one day, or work class-by-class with our popular ‘Bringing Books to Life’ workshops, to create a short movement sequence inspired by a beloved children's book.
Led by an inspiring professional dancer, children are encouraged to use their creativity and imaginations as they work together to explore your chosen story through dance. Each session is tailored to suit the differing ages of the children, with accompanying music or narration.
Available UK wide, we help hundreds of schools celebrate World Book Day every year. Teachers also tell us the dance workshops are a great use of their sports premium budget!
Our flagship Bringing Books to Life workhops sessions are great for any number of classes, and explore your choice from our selection of children’s books and fairytales.
- We work with classes from Reception to Year 6 for sessions between 35 and 50 minutes. Nursery classes can also have 30 minute 'taster' sessions.
- We can run up to seven 35 minute sessions per day. To work with fewer classes we can visit for just an afternoon or morning session. To work with more than seven classes we can visit across multiple days.
- Each individual session closes with a two-minute dance performance for the teacher.
- For two or three form entry schools we work across multiple days.
- To cover the material we need at least three classes from KS2.
- At the end of the day, children come together to perform their section of the story to each other, creating a full performance with music and narration.
- Develop an understanding of the story by recreating the narrative from start to finish.
- Collaborate with classmates by creating a shared retelling of the story.
- Develop creative ownership and the imagination by working alongside a professional dancer-choreographer.
- Gain confidence in physical literacy as an expression of meaning and emotion.
For our wider range of book options, available year-round outside of our World Book Day dates, visit Bringing Books to Life.
Book Options for World Book Day 2025
Traditional tale
Nursery, Reception, KS1
by Michael Morpugo
KS2
by Roald Dahl
Nursery, Reception, KS1, KS2
by Dr Seuss
Reception, KS1, KS2
by Maurice Sendak
Nursery, Reception, KS1, KS2
