People Dancing

People Dancing is the network and centre of knowledge for community dance practice, research and training.

Join People Dancing and connect with dancers, teaching artists, community practitioners, and dance & arts organisations committed to access and inclusion in dance. Explore our refreshed membership offer for individuals, organisations and education.

We are a Registered Charity (no.328392) and not-for profit organisation, established to advance public education in the art of dance. We offer subscriptions and memberships for individual dance artists, teachers and leaders, for organisations of all sizes, and the general public. A new Friends of People Dancing scheme has now launched - find our more here.

Our organisational governance brings together a diverse group of highly skilled and dance professionals, with Trustees from all four nations of the UK. Our staff team are highly knowledgeable about community and participatory dance, and can be on the end of the phone when you need a friendly voice.

Dance and health practice

For 10 years Move Dance Feel has been supporting women affected by cancer through dance. Founded by Emily Jenkins, it is a unique, female-led community, helping women feel more at home in their bodies, less alone in their experiences and better equipped to navigate the challenges that cancer brings…

Best of Both Worlds: Facilitator To Artist and Back Again

Lildonia Lawrence, a movement practitioner, wellbeing coach and diversity specialist based in Bristol, reflects on inner transformation, co-creation and decolonisation over the course of Movema’s Wildfire Rising development programme for artists of the Global Majority.

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A gift returned

After a long career as a writer and broadcaster, Frances Byrnes re-kindled her love of dancing after 40-year break and embarked on an unexpected journey of new adventures in practice and performance across the North of England. Here she lets us in on some complex and deeply personal feelings involved in coming back to dance.

Look How Far We've Come

Ashley Jordan, Company Director of Ascension Dance in Coventry offers a very personal reflection on the transformative power of youth dance experiences and celebrates Pinnacle Dance Platform 2025, an event created by Ascension to give young people a space to grow, connect, and express themselves through movement.

AWA DANCE at Five

AWA DANCE is a UK-based Charitable Incorporated Organisation (CIO) dedicated to the leadership development of women and teenage girls, using the transformative power of dance as the tool to empower their voices. Avatâra Ayuso, Founder and Director of Advancing Women’s Aspirations with Dance or AWA DANCE, celebrates its fifth birthday with us.

Latest digital edition!

Animated Spring/Summer 2026

It is a pleasure and honour to introduce this edition of Animated, in our 40th Anniversary year. We are thrilled to bring you an incredible line up of writers, spanning all kinds of contexts and practices.

An inclusive space includes you

Kyra Norman is a dancer and choreographer, living in West Cornwall, UK, who has been exploring ideas and practices of movement, connection and place for over 20 years. Here she discusses sustaining ourselves, in order to sustain our work with communities, in challenging times.

Picking up the Pieces

Bradford Women's Dance Company. Photo: Brian Slater.

Helen Linsell, Artistic Director of Dance United Yorkshire, shares her practice working with vulnerable adult women and reflects on the impact of adopting a trauma-informed approach to ensure meaningful and long-term engagement.

Approaches to Dance for Early Years Qualification

‘Vitolda Klein’ – Vitolda Klein (Unsplash)

The Level 4 Certificate Approaches to Dance for Early Years is a single unit qualification that introduces dance artists to key issues that may affect the delivery of dance sessions for children aged 4 years and under.

Professional Qualifications

People Dancing's International Conference 2017, Glasgow. Photo: Rac

People Dancing has developed qualifications which enable dancers, teaching artists and community practitioners working in participatory settings to evidence their skills and knowledge.

Approaches to Dance with Older People Qualification

People Dancing Summer School. Photo: Rachel Cherry.

The Level 4 Certificate Approaches to Dance with Older People is a single unit qualification that introduces dance artists to key issues that may affect older people who participate in dance.

Blogs and Vlogs

Maria da Luz Ghoumrassi. Photo: Foteini Christofilopolous.

Connect with other dance artists and reflect upon your practice or just take some time out!

Jobs and opportunities

People Dancing in the Summer. Photo: Rachel Cherry.

People Dancing provides the fullest list of jobs and opportunities in the community dance sector. Here you can browse the current list of vacancies.

11 Million Reasons to Dance, inspired by The Red Shoes. Photo: Sean Goldthorpe

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People Dancing

People Dancing is the network and centre of knowledge for community dance practice, research and training.

Join People Dancing and connect with dancers, teaching artists, community practitioners, and dance & arts organisations committed to access and inclusion in dance. Explore our refreshed membership offer for individuals, organisations and education.

Our organisational governance brings together a diverse group of highly skilled and dance professionals, with Trustees from all four nations of the UK. Our staff team are highly knowledgeable about community and participatory dance, and can be on the end of the phone when you need a friendly voice.

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