Dear Friends and Supporters,

I am writing to you with an update on BB, and a big request for help.

After 8 wonderful years, we have been evicted (through no fault of our own!) from our Marylebone home. This came at short notice during Christmas, and one of our busiest creative times, while we created A Shadow Work and My Sister, The Serial Killer. We were, to say the least, devastated by the news.

Despite the upheaval, I am pleased to share that we’ve found a new home in Hammersmith, London. It offer us room to grow and opens new doors for the future of Ballet Black.

However, as you can imagine, it is expensive to move - our rent has gone up by a third, and we have to make this building fit for a dance company. We have used a significant amount of our own funds to transform one of the spaces into a beautiful dance studio - it is bigger and better than our previous studio, and the dancers and our students are very happy here.

We still need to raise significant funds to ensure that our office staff have somewhere suitable to work, and to create a proper dressing room and rehab space for our dancers, who have NEVER had a dedicated changing room, just various cupboards that we've done our best with. We want to fit out proper toilets and showers, as well as a small studio for physio and injury rehab so our dancers can have long and healthy careers! All of this will cost us around £250,000. I am asking if you can help us to raise at least £50,000 of the total through our latest JustGiving campaign

No donation is too small (or too big!) If you are unable to give, please can you share this with people who might be able to help us as we go through this significant moment in BB's 23 year history?

Every donation, big or small, brings us closer to making this new space a proper home for BB.

With love & thanks,

Cassa & all at Ballet Black