A year-long dance programme, named the Time of Your Life Dance Academy will be launched this spring. Supported by the West End musical Dirty Dancing and radio station Magic 105.4's Cash for Kids appeal. Delivered by London Youth Dance, JumpStartMove and London Youth, it aims to introduce young people across London to the health benefits of dance and the excitement of live theatre, while giving them new skills. The project will be funded using money from Dirty Dancing's special Valentine's Day gala performance. The Academy's first showcase will take place at this year's London Youth Dance Day, on July 10-11, 2010.

Chickenshed's tour of dance theatre piece Crime of the Century continues this month. The production, created following the deaths of three teenagers associated with Chickenshed, uses words, movement and projection to examine knife crime among young people. The story is based on interviews with victims, perpetrators, families, surgeons, police officers and ex-offenders. This month, there are performances in London, Birmingham, Croydon, Crawley and Runcorn. Details from chickenshed.org.uk.

Subathra Subramaniam has won funding from Arts Council England and The Wellcome Trust to produce and tour a new work, The Shiver, for her new dance company Sadhana. The new work looks at the emotional and scientific reasons for shivering. Subramaniam, an associate artist of South East Dance, uses Bharata Natyam dance in the work, while collaborating with a poet, a composer, a digital artist and neuroscientist. In June, The Shiver will be performed at ICIA Bath University and Wycombe Swan, before touring nationally in the autumn.

National Dance Company Wales perform Alternative Routes at the Dance House, Wales Millennium Theatre, from June 23-25. Six Wales-based choreographers present new work in this evening, performed by their fellow National Dance Company Wales dancers. For more information, see ndcwales.co.uk.

Balbir Singh Dance Company's tour of the new work Decreasing Infinity continues this month. The company's first male duet matches a Kathak and a contemporary dancer, with the two styles gradually coming together. The onstage music is by tabla player Kousic Sen and beatbox star Jason Singh. The company will be at Phipps Hall, University of Huddersfield on June 2, then at Theatre in the Mill, University of Bradford on June 11. Details from balbirsinghdance.co.uk.

The American Dance Festival has announced its season for 2010, running from June 10-July 24. The line-up includes the Paul Taylor Dance Company, Inbal Pinto & Avshalom Pollak Dance Company, RUBBERBANDance Group, Pilobolus, the African American Dance Ensemble, Eiko & Koma, Martha Clarke and Past/Forward, a performance with works by Jerome Robbins, Merce Cunningham and Tatiana Baganova. Performances are at Durham Performing Arts Centre and at Duke University, Durham, North Carolina. Full programme at americandancefestival.org.

Birmingham Royal Ballet will go from international straight into smaller-scale local touring this summer. From May 7-9, the company dance Swan Lake at the Virginia Arts Festival in Norfolk, US, following sell-out performances of The Sleeping Beauty in 2007. Back in the UK, the company and the Royal Ballet Sinfonia split in half to perform in mid-scale venues across the UK. In the north and east, they will dance David Bintley's Allegri Diversi, Hans van Manen's Grosse Fuge and Garry Stewart's The Centre and its Opposite in Sheffield, York, Durham and Kings Lynn. In the south west, in Cheltenham, Poole and Truro, the programme is John Cranko's Brouillards, Bintley's The Dance House and George Balanchine's Slaughter on Tenth Avenue. The split tour runs from May 25-June 5. For further information, see brb.org.uk.