People Dancing is the development organisation for community and participatory dance, driving forward inclusion and excellence and supporting a UK-wide network of members - dance artists and organisations - who make great dance happen in all its diversity.
Inclusive Practice: Collective Rhythms, Individual Stories
< Insert title here >. Photo: Paul Fuller.
Performance and participatory practice intertwine at SLiDE Dance. This has been developed with people with moderate access needs including autism and learning disabilities in non-traditional venues with ways for audiences to engage and interact.
Words to Move: Writing effectively about your work
People Dancing Summer Intensive 2024. Photographer: Mark Anderson.
From funding applications to academic writing to social media posts - is it challenging to find the right words? Are you looking to connect with your audience, or write a crucial funding application? Then this workshop with Dr. Funmi Adewole Elliott is for you!
Introduction to Dance with Older People
People Dancing Summer Intensive 2024. Photographer: Mark Anderson.
An introductory workshop with Diane Amans in the studio for dancers, teaching artists and community practitioners who want to gain skills, knowledge and experience in leading creative dance with older people.
Sociable Dancing: Teaching and Creating with Folk
Social folk dancing at Steps for Success conference, Cecil Sharp House 2018. ©EFDSS. Photo: Roswitha
This workshop with English Folk Dance & Song Society (EFDSS) expands your knowledge of folk dances to enhance your toolbox?of dance stimuli, build a shared sense of place, and discover the joys of moving together in sociable dancing!
Improving Your Teaching Skills for Community Dance
The Urban Playground Team © Richard Baybutt.
Join Alister O’Loughlin of The Urban Playground team - Cornwall’s award-winning physical theatre & performance-parkour company - to gain key skills and knowledge to improve your teaching skills for community and participatory dance.
The Well Within: a retreat for those who hold space for others
Dancing Beach 4 by José Kieft.
After a year of teaching, holding space and giving to others, it's essential to take time to replenish before the summer break. Join Dr. Eline Kieft for a mini retreat that blends movement, nature awareness and creative reflection.
Taking Charge of Your Career in Dance
People Dancing Summer Intensive 2024. Photographer: Mark Anderson.
Do you need more of a life/work balance? Is a career decision on the cards? Or are you looking to make a major life change? If you answered yes to any of these questions, then join June Gamble to take charge of your dance career!
Plastic Drastic Fantastic: Environmental Dance in Education
Akademi, Plastic Drastic Fantastic, Harrow Arts Centre. Photo: Brian Hartley.
Join Suba Subramaniam, choreographer and Akademi’s Artistic Director for a one-day workshop, designed for dance artists, leaders, students, and teachers. Dive into the dynamic world of South Asian dance and explore its power to address critical issues of today, especially environmental crisis.
The First Duet: a Journey from Birth to Toddler
Photo by Nikolaos Nikolalaios.
From the moment of birth, movement becomes a shared language between parent and child. This workshop, with Mafê Toledo, invites dance artists, students and facilitators to investigate the role of movement in early attachment and development.
Advancing Your Practice in Dancing with Parkinson’s
Live Well & Dance with Parkinson's - North Carlisle 2024. Photographer: Rachel Cherry.
This advanced training workshop with Jen Cunningham and Julie Symmonds, for teaching artists with a keen interest in deepening their practice across and within the field of dancing with Parkinson’s offers intensive experiential and practical sessions in the studio.
The Choreography of Consent: Action Research Event
People Dancing Summer Intensive. Photo: Rachel Cherry.
A daylong event where practitioners and researchers from dance and law come together to explore the current complexities of working with consent. Members of the Network including Heni Hale, Anna Macdonald and Jo Fong, and legal scholars including Marie Jacob and Amanda Keeling.
It’s the little things…
People Dancing Summer School 2024. Photo: Mark Anderson.
If you are contemplating attending this year's Summer Intensive 2025, perhaps independent dance artist and educator Claire Pring - who has both delivered and participated in it - can offer some food for thought. Here, writing fresh from a workshop last year, Claire has a moment of realisation about what she values about ‘continuing professional development'.
Dance On: Evidencing Dance, Health and Well-being
Hannah Robertshaw, Creative Director, Yorkshire Dance. Photographer: Anthony Dunn.
Hannah Robertshaw, Creative Director, Yorkshire Dance reflects on developing Dance On – an evidence-based dance programme for older adults delivered by Yorkshire Dance and Darts in partnership with One Dance UK and The University of Leeds.
People Dancing Summer Intensive 22-24 July 2025
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People Dancing Summer Intensive 2025  Join us 22 - 24 July for an inspiring mix of learning, exploration, reflection and connection at De Montfort University Leicester, England
A joyful end!
Dancing Together with Parkinson’s West Midlands, Albany Theatre. Photos: Andrew Moore.
Dancing Together with Parkinson’s West Midlands was a nine-month long legacy project from People Dancing’s Live Well & Dance with Parkinson’s programme funded by the Inclusive Communities Fund (Heart of England Community Foundation).
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Welcome to our first edition of Animated in 2025 and the theme uniting our typically broad collection of articles feels like that of ‘near and far.’

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