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Still dancing after 21 years

Eileen Burrows with the Growing Older Dis(Gracefully) Dance company

Come on Eileen! Senior dance group member celebrates at 21

88-year-old Eileen Burrows is one of the more senior members of the Growing Older (Dis) Gracefully Dance company, in Liverpool. With the group since 2003, the retired school nurse is about to perform in its ‘Coming of Age’ celebration of 21 years of dancing.

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Viva Eastbourne!

Claire Chritou (left) and Claire Tabraham celebrate their Arts Award of the Year

BBC captures tale of two Claires

If you tuned into BBC Radio 4’s Listening Project, which profiled a number of conversations about ‘The Power of Dance’, you may remember the first podcast that featured two women who have devoted themselves to Eastbourne Dance Space…

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Learning from Parkinson's

Curiosity, the moving body and identity

Independent dance artist Danielle Teale, will co-lead an ‘Introduction to dance for Parkinson’s’ course at this year’s People Dancing Summer School. Here Danielle blogs on how dancing with Parkinson's has made a significant contribution to her dance practice... and her life.

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Taking 2PK to Norway

Instead of 'correcting' we congratulate their 're-mixing'

Alister O’Loughlin will return to our Summer School this year (23-28 July) to introduce delegates to performance-parkour (2PK). Whilst blogging, Alister was at a festival in Norway, working with young people on a site-specific performance

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Glasgow conference 2017. Photo: Rachel Cherry

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People Dancing Music

Curated playlists for dance practitioners

Curated playlists for dance practitioners including; Dance with Older People, Contemporary Dance, Dance for Early Years, South Asian Dance Styles, Lindy Hop, Dance for Parkinson's, Argentine Tango, Creative dance and Bollywood

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People Dancing Podcasts

People Dancing International Conference: Glasgow 2017. Photo: Rachel Cherry

Diverse presentations and debate

The People Dancing podcasts are available for you to listen to online. Don't forget to follow us on Soundcloud and iTunes for future content!

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Inclusive images go digital!

11 Million Reasons to Dance, inspired by Chicago. Photo: Sean Goldthorpe

Stunning photographs reinvented

People Dancing, with funding from digital commissioning body The Space, has developed the online presence of 11 Million Reasons to Dance with a series of short films and enhanced images

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Jobs and careers

Here you can browse jobs and opportunities in community and participatory dance

Got a vacancy you want to fill? You can also post your vacancy online

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Animated magazine

Latest edition out now!

Animated magazine Winter 2017/18 - current issues and practice in participatory dance

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Our natural instinct

Vincent E. Thomas. Photo by Rachel Cherry

"When someone says, 'I'm not a dancer', I simply don't believe them"

US dance artist Vincent E. Thomas took time out from his visit to People Dancing’s international conference, to explain his quest to recover something that’s in danger of being lost… our natural instinct to move.

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Summer School 2018

Summer School 2017. Photo: Rachel Cherry

People Dancing's Summer School runs from Monday 23 - Saturday 28 July 2018 at De Montfort University, Leicester. There are eleven inspiring courses to choose from, with world-class artists and teachers.

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People Dancing offers a range of memberships for individual dance artists, teachers and leaders, and for organisations of all sizes.

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