‘Mam, show us your interpretive dance!’ How a former mining village got into the groove

Our new series on regional dance scenes begins in Northumberland, where a studio-cum-boxing club is inspiring novice performersThe road to the coast is bordered with fenced-off industrial land, terracotta-coloured silos and a lot of sky. There are the locked gates of Britishvolt, the embattled battery manufacturer that has promised to bring a sustainable energy industry to the former pit village of Cambois (pronounced Cammus). On the beach, the sand is black-flecked with coal. The pit closed in