Wintry reflection
Issue: Spring 2010
Date Posted: 09 Apr 2010
Dance artist, Gill Clarke, waxes poetic about creative away time
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Stepping out east
Issue: Spring 2010
Date Posted: 09 Apr 2010
Jih-Wen Yeh, artistic director of Step Out Arts, explains what motivated the creation of a new showcase for British East Asian artists read more
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Raising standards
Issue: Spring 2010
Date Posted: 09 Apr 2010
FCD's Lisa Craddock outlines a new strategy for professional standards
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Artist Bank: Not just kids' stuff
Issue: Spring 2010
Date Posted: 09 Apr 2010
Rachel Attfield and Katherine Duhigg ask how can a creative project with primary school children impact on artists' professional practice? read more
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Breakin' it down
Issue: Winter 2010
Date Posted: 18 Dec 2009
British bgirl SunSun, aka Sunanda Biswas, reveals why young women in hip-hop deserve and want to sustain their own festival read more
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Need to know
Issue: Autumn 2009
Date Posted: 29 Sep 2009
Pauline Gladstone examines the wants and needs of artists that work with challenging groups, and are hungry for knowledge and guidance
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Expanding the territory
Issue: Autumn 2009
Date Posted: 28 Sep 2009
Beverley Glean, Rosie Lehan and Judith Palmer of IRIE! dance theatre hit the APD training trail read more
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Holding the conch
Issue: Spring 2008
Date Posted: 08 Jul 2009
Sue Akroyd, Diane Amans, Jacqueline McCormick and Ruth Spencer report on their research into creative leadership
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Making a Move takes a stride forward
Issue: Autumn 2008
Date Posted: 08 Jul 2009
Ken Bartlett and Chris Stenton describe the Foundation for Community Dance's latest thinking and plans for the development of the professional framework
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Primary Bank
Issue: Autumn 2008
Date Posted: 08 Jul 2009
Rachel Attfield at Siobhan Davies Dance relates the journey of an artist's practice with a neighbouring Primary School
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Classroom Moves
Issue: Winter 2008
Date Posted: 07 Jul 2009
Kristine Sommerlade and Heather Walker, of Tees Valley Dance, describe their project to get teachers and pupils dancing in the classroom
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A workforce for the future?
Issue: Spring 2009
Date Posted: 06 Jul 2009
Ken Bartlett asks if we need to develop new methodological approaches for community dance to suit the needs of both people and dance? read more
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The art of moving people
Issue: Spring 2009
Date Posted: 06 Jul 2009
Lisa Craddock introduces the National College for Community Dance - a major new professional development iniative for the community dance sector
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DansAthletic - the marriage of the dance and sport sectors?
Issue: Winter 2009
Date Posted: 25 May 2009
Polly Risbridger and Tia Hassan on the recent launch of DansAthletic: A Teachers Resource, inspired by the Olympic and Paralympic Games.
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Definitions, core values and a code of conduct for community dance
Issue: Winter 2009
Date Posted: 25 Feb 2009
Ken Bartlett and Chris Stenton present current definitions, core values and a code of professional conduct for community dance.
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From Calabash to Cultural Leadership
Issue: Autumn 2008
Date Posted: 18 Feb 2009
Judith Palmer, Development Manager at IRIE! Dance Theatre, describes growing from her roots at a Girls Club in Nottingham to becoming a leader in African Peoples' Dance read more
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North-western exposure
Issue: Autumn 2005
Date Posted: 22 Jan 2008
Deborah Ashby on testing the impact of professional development, creation and touring opportunities for dancers in Dance Northwest on demand and supply read more
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Routes to integration for learning disabled dancers
Issue: Autumn 2007
Date Posted: 15 Jan 2008
Susan Norwood, co-Artistic Director of Project Volume outlines her approach to the professional development of learning disabled dancers
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Shrink'd
Issue: Autumn 2006
Date Posted: 02 Feb 2007
Yael Flexer, Artistic Director of Bedlam Dance Company, on the making and touring of Shrink'd, an interactive installation & live performance event read more
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South East Dance in-sync with youth
Issue: Summer 2006
Date Posted: 15 Nov 2006
Kyla Lucking, Head of Community and Learning, describes the programme of professional development by South East Dance to support artists to work with young people at risk read more
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FACETS 2006
Issue: Spring 2006
Date Posted: 18 Oct 2006
Bisakha Sarker on attending the international choreographic residency in Bangalore, India read more
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Learning through doing
Issue: Winter 2006
Date Posted: 20 Sep 2006
Ruth Till reflects on ten years of the Rubicon Community Dance Apprentice Scheme and unravels the secrets of its success read more
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The Bedroom tour
Issue: Winter 2006
Date Posted: 20 Sep 2006
Angela Praed on creating and touring dance to people's bedrooms, and the importance of her sense of place and space as an artist within a rural community read more
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Still burning bright
Issue: Winter 2006
Date Posted: 20 Sep 2006
Jane Scott-Barrett, on Ludus Dance Company's thirty years of work across the UK and abroad
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Relocation, relocation, relocation
Issue: Autumn 2005
Date Posted: 20 Sep 2006
To relocate or not to relocate, says June Gamble, is often the question - and through her experience as a life coach, offers some thoughts about deciding whether to make the move read more
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Bloomin' renewal
Issue: Summer 2005
Date Posted: 11 Aug 2005
Skills development officer Yee Ling Tang describes the ways in which artists freshen up themselves and their practice at Cheshire Dance read more
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Towards a rigour of the imagination - the education of individual creative artists
Issue: Winter 2003
Date Posted: 10 Jun 2005
Gill Clarke sets out her vision for the educated 'curious' artist inhabiting a world where dance is common currency
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Snakes and ladders/Reflecting on learning
Issue: Autumn 2004
Date Posted: 13 May 2005
Sue Smith and Stine Nilsen of CandoCo on the UK's first Foundation Course in Dance for disabled students read more
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Landscapes, dances and stories: preparing for New Zealand
Issue: Winter 2005
Date Posted: 12 May 2005
Petra Kuppers has been awarded the first Caroline Plummer Fellowship in Community Dance at the University of Otago, New Zealand. Here Petra shares some of her thoughts
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Shifting the balance of power?
Issue: Winter 2005
Date Posted: 12 May 2005
POTENTIAL is the Foundation for Community Dance's programme of work focused on dance and disabled people. Emily Horwood, development officer, tells us more read more
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Gained in translation
Issue: Spring 2005
Date Posted: 10 May 2005
Louise Katerega, independent dance artist and Co-Artistic Director FOOT IN HAND on learning as a dancer/choreographer through working in integrated dance read more
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ArtistLink
Issue: Spring 2003
Date Posted: 22 Jan 2004
Jacqueline Gray is director of Hampshire Dance, here she talks about Artistlink, a professional development members scheme for local dancers read more
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Being part of something that is really a profession
Issue: Spring 2003
Date Posted: 22 Jan 2004
Eddie Nixon looks at Dance UK's recent initiatives to support the professional development of choreographers read more
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Breakthrough at the ballet
Issue: Spring 2003
Date Posted: 22 Jan 2004
Gwen Van Spijk reports on an innovative programme of professional development opportunities initiated at Birmingham Royal Ballet read more
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If only I could find a dance manager... I would be able to...
Issue: Spring 2003
Date Posted: 22 Jan 2004
Jacqueline Rose, charts the development of initiatives designed to support the professional development of independent dance managers in London
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Learning on the job
Issue: Spring 2003
Date Posted: 22 Jan 2004
Dawn Prentice, CandoCo's administrative director, talks about some of the ways in which the company approaches the professional development needs of its disabled artists read more
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Professional development @ DanceCity
Issue: Spring 2003
Date Posted: 22 Jan 2004
DanceCity's director Janet Archer looks at over ten years of professional development opportunities in the North East of England, with the emphasis on 'quality people time' read more
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Returning to learning - lifelong learning
Issue: Spring 2003
Date Posted: 22 Jan 2004
Alysoun Tomkins on what happens when you give yourself a chance
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Steps in time - stepping up the action
Issue: Winter 2003
Date Posted: 26 Jun 2003
Gillian Dale on developing professional practice in Wales read more
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Professional development?
Issue: Winter 2003
Date Posted: 26 Jun 2003
Now there is something to ruminate about. When and how did that start happening? Judy Bird tells us her story so far read more
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Taking responsibility for access?
Issue: Winter 2003
Date Posted: 26 Jun 2003
Sue Williams, CreativePeople Disability Co-ordinator, outlines the issues that we all need to address to make CPD accessible and inclusive read more
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Continuing to develop tradition
Issue: Winter 2003
Date Posted: 25 Jun 2003
Bithika Chatterjee and Mira Kaushik offer their perspective on continuous development projects for South Asian dancers read more
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Creating independence, making choices, taking control
Issue: Winter 2003
Date Posted: 25 Jun 2003
Chris Stenton, General Manager, Foundation for Community Dance on professional development and you read more
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Dance artist required - an enthusiastic learner, as well as deliverer
Issue: Winter 2003
Date Posted: 25 Jun 2003
Adam Holloway on the research for and development of Bloom - a new professional development programme for community dance read more
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Gradient
Issue: Winter 2003
Date Posted: 25 Jun 2003
Natalie Gordon and Kyla Lucking on a professional development project that aims to address that age-old Catch 22: you need experience to get a job and a job to get experience read more
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Making training count
Issue: Winter 2003
Date Posted: 25 Jun 2003
Sally Hartshorne, project manager at Arts Training Central, on how to get a meaningful and successful development experience read more
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Being there: Liz Aggiss is finally present
Issue: Winter 2003
Date Posted: 20 Jun 2003
Up close and personal, Liz Aggiss opens her diary to the world to reveal the artist inside that's been screaming for space. And finally got some. This ring any bells? read more
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Coaching - developing the person
Issue: Issues 1996 - 2001
Date Posted: 26 Nov 2002
Animated, Summer 2000. Rivca Rubin reveals how to enter someone else's model of the world gracefully read more
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A personal view
Issue: Summer 2002
Date Posted: 17 Oct 2002
From an aspiring vet, to working at the Post Office for nine years, independent dancer and actor David Toole talks candidly about his extraordinary journey into dance and performance read more
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