A group of dance-mad York teenagers have used the city's bridges and underpasses as the backdrop for a dance video expressing their frustration at lockdown.

Set to music by York composer Jon Hughes the film, Same Storm, uses poetry by York teenager Ella and dance routines by 11 members of Tang Hall-based York Dance Space to then celebrate the hope of better times to come.

The film was shown to more than 1,000 young people from across Yorkshire at the weekend during the 4-day RE:FRESH online dance festival led by Yorkshire Dance.

"I am in a lockdown, there are only frowns, in my house no hope in moving about," the film begins, over routines the teenagers filmed themselves at home. "This curious year is stirring up fear, it feels as if hope is far from near."

But the teenagers then break away from home and are each seen dancing in a different location in York - the Millennium Bridge, Rowntree Wharf, a graffiti-decorated underpass - as the mood of the piece shifts. "The lockdown is ending, new rules are pending, and the birds are singing a new tune. A better future is coming, and we are almost out of the storm," goes the piece.

York Dance Space director Hannah Wintie-Hawkins said her young dance pupils did a live performance at the Yorkshire Dance event every year. When it became clear that wasn't going to be possible this year, talk at the weekly Zoom meeting turned to what young people could do instead. The answer was 'Same Storm'.

"It is all about how they have weathered what's going on," Hannah said.

Young dancers filmed routines in their own homes themselves. Hannah then met teenagers individually at locations around the city to film each outdoor section one by one.

You can see the video at youtube.com/watch?v=F_RPa9aA_s4&t=3s