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11 January 2022
Perspectives on Practice: The impact of recreational dance on adolescent girls
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Timings: 10:30 - 12:00
In this session with People Dancing board member Louise Marshall, we will be exploring how we teach in the dance class, with the focus being on adolescent girls participating in recreational dance. What messages are girls learning either overtly or unspoken?

Through discussion and short tasks we will reflect on what we teach and how we teach and how we can support our participants to confidently explore their identity.

This Zoom event is free of charge to People Dancing Members and £5.00 for non-members.

Bookings for this event are now closed

Booking deadline: Thursday 6 January 2022. 

About Louise Marshall

Louise Marshall has been professionally involved in the world of participatory and community dance for over 25 years. Building on her own experience of community projects in Liverpool, she went on to work as a free-lance dance artist in Aberdeen and Aberdeenshire, delivering projects that included in specialist hospitals, adult education centres, schools, care homes and village halls. Louise is currently in her final year of a MEd in Learning and Teaching in the Performing Arts at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland.

Since 2001 Louise has led on dance engagement at Eden Court in Inverness. As well as regular classes within the venue has developing and delivering Highland-wide projects for all ages and abilities. Through this work she has been able to Charleston at Dunvegan, Salsa in Fort William, flashmob at Belladrum Tartan Heart Festival and bring hundreds of people together to perform on the Empire Stage as part of The Big Dance Show.

Current projects include Dance for Parkinson’s; a multi-generational and inclusive Community Dance Company; developing young talent with the Eden Court Young Dance Company and SQA Higher Dance qualification; creating performance work with local immigrant communities.