Ever slide across the dancefloor at Brighton’s Regent Dance Hall or Eastbourne’s Winter Garden? A new project is looking for tea dance lovers to jog their memories of the venues for a series of art installations, film screenings, soundscapes and dance, theatre and music shows.

Our Dancing Feet: True, And Not So True, Tales From The Dance Floor... will bring together artists, performers and heritage and education organisations for events in November and March.

The project, to be produced by Zap Art and Inroads Productions, comes thanks to £215,000 of funding secured from organisations including Arts Council England, Heritage Lottery Fund, Big Lottery Fund and Brighton and Hove City Council.

Zap Art associate producer Veronica Stephens says the project will celebrate the venues and the era.

“This intergenerational project will explore the social mores and gender etiquette of partner dancing in the 1950s.

“It will celebrate the history of the much-loved Regent Dance Hall in Brighton [which used to stand where the large Boots store is now], and the beautiful ballrooms at the Winter Garden in Eastbourne.”

Free tea and cake is on offer for dance fans with stories at an outreach tea dance at Blind Veterans UK, Greenways, Ovingdean on September 14. The Ragroof Players will show short dance performances and social dances of the day, such as the quickstep and jive, from 2pm to 4pm.

“We would like to invite people to share their memories and stories with us – these could be about the Regent Dance Hall, going out dancing, music and fashion, or just Brighton and Eastbourne in the 1950s.

“If you’ve got a few tales to tell, please get in touch.”

Zap Art and Inroads Productions previously worked together on The Port, The Beast And The Traveller at Newhaven Fort in 2012.

The new project will run until July 2014 and feature schools and community programmes, talks, exhibitions, tea dances, oral history training, heritage learning, plus art, drama and writing workshops.

Two free, site-specific events will take place on Saturday, November 16, and Sunday, November 17, at Oceana in Brighton (with outdoor projections on Boots in North Street) and Saturday, March 22, and Sunday, March 23, 2014, at the Winter Garden in Eastbourne.

For more information or to get involved, email dancehallproject1950@gmail.com.