People Dancing

Dancing for equality

Anne-Marie Smalldon, Combination Dance Company

Heroic tale in women's history made real through dance

Anne-Marie Smalldon, Artistic Director of Combination Dance Company, blogs on 100nehundred, a dance/history collaboration with The National Archives inspired by this year’s centenary of British women’s suffrage and modern gender equality issues

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Australia bound

Inspired by Strictly Ballroom - Sean Goldthorpe, 11 Million Reasons to Dance, People Dancing

Crossing continents

‘Awesome’ images from 11 Million Reasons to Dance head for Australia

Dance for Parkinson's

Dancing for positive shared experience

Community dance artist Rachael James loves the feeling of freedom that dancing brings and the belief that with the right environment, permission and influences, we can all dance. This is what led her to complete her dance for Parkinson’s training…

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It's the dance of life

It’s the dance of life… especially a life with Parkinson’s

Paul Atherton is a keen dancer. He also lives with Parkinson’s. Paul wanted to blog for us to express just how important dance is in his life… he started well but it wasn’t long before he felt there was something else he should be doing!

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Financing the dream

People Dancing Director of Development Ruth Bates with her son, Jamie

Your child got into dance school! Now, how to pay for it?

It’s from this time of year People Dancing gets phone calls and emails from anxious parents wanting to support their children through dance training. Here our Director of Development Ruth Bates blogs on how these dreams, though expensive, can be made real.

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People Dancing Music

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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Latest jobs

Here you can browse jobs and opportunities in community and 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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Animated magazine

Animated Spring 2018 magazine cover. Photo: Iain Garett www.igdesign.photography

Latest edition out now!

Animated magazine Spring 2018 - current issues and practice in participatory dance

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Dance for Parkinson's

"More cheerful, more energised, more able to cope"

From a cuppa and a chat to doing a Haka – Steff Streat, who has lived with Parkinson’s for 10 years, blogs on the difference going to a dance for Parkinson’s class makes to her quality of life

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Voice and Presence

Louise Katerega. Pic by Benedict Johnson

20 minutes to change our world

Louise Katerega is producer of Voice and Presence, the first collaborative project as an Associate Artist of People Dancing. Voice and Presence sets out to acknowledge, amplify and celebrate the voice of women of colour in participatory dance...

An introduction

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

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