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.
Wed 30 Oct: Student online gathering!
Takeshi Matsumoto. Photo: Rosie Heafford
WTH is ... community dance? Understanding community dance is essential to surviving and thriving in dance. Discover the opportunities it brings with People Dancing Higher Education team and guest speakers from Second Hand Dance. Ideal for any year group, particularly first years!

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Wed 6 Nov: Two Early Years Dance Events!
People Dancing Summer Intensive 2024. Photo: Mark Anderson
Join us for our Early Years Dance Network events, which offer a choice of a practical in-person event held in London with Liz Clark and Jasmine Pasch or a more informal networking event on sector initiatives for early years dance held online with Louise Wildish.

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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.
Jobs and opportunities
People Dancing in the Summer. Photo: Rachel Cherry.
Here you can browse jobs and opportunities in community and participatory dance.
Space for freedom
In this blog, Suzanne Cantwell-Birkin of Off-Balance Dance reflects four weeks on from the launch of a new Dance with Parkinson’s class in Coventry… how she and co-director Alexis Haines are on a journey of learning together with their new and growing community of dancers…
Nurturing waves
Sarima and Eloise in studio. Photo: Sarima Chukundah.
In our most recent Animated editon Kamara Gray, Artistic Director of Artistry Youth Dance, looks back on its first decade while company dancers Eloise Badu & Sarima Chukundah recount how it propelled them to the world- renowned Ailey School’s Summer Intensive in New York.
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.
Risk Assesment Qualification
The Risk Assessment for Participatory Arts Practitioners - Level 2 Award is a single unit qualification which requires you to develop your understanding of the processes involved in a risk assessment for participatory arts activities.
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People Dancing Summer School. Photo: Rachel Cherry
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A choreography of parenting
Anita Clark.
Anita Clark, Director of The Work Room in Glasgow, Scotland, frames the voices of parent-artists contemplating or navigating the complexities of resuming their practice alongside the care and raising of children.
Sharing early years dance practice
Kimberley Harvey and Ella Fleetwood talk about their experience of dancing in the public spaces and on the wards of Great Ormond Street Hospital in London from June 2022 to March 2023.
The Working Group statement
Candoco Dance Company, Corali, People Dancing, Stopgap Dance Company and TIN Arts are co-collaborators in a shared enquiry and Working Group to challenge ourselves and others to increase and sustain the presence and representation by disabled people in the dance workforce and its leadership.
A very contemporary dance project
Drawing: Marcia Porto.
Sharon Scaniglia, shares her appreciation of supporting artists, how creativity combats loneliness and her passionate belief in older age as an important time of rich self-expression.
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11 Million Reasons to Dance, inspired by The Red Shoes. Photo: Sean Goldthorpe
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Membership

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

Jobs and opportunities 

Browse the latest jobs and opportunities in dance and post your vacancy on People Dancing's website.