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People Dancing's International Conference, Glasgow. Photo: Rachel Cherry

Just graduated? Changing career?

Join People Dancing’s Associate Artist, Louise Katerega, for her top 10 signposts to People Dancing's resources to get you started on a happy, healthy teaching journey.

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Insurance for dance work

People Dancing Summer School 2019. Photo: Rachel Cherry

Insurance benefits included in Professional Individual Membership; Public Liability & Professional Indemnity of up to £10m, Personal Accident, Employer's Liability and equipment cover.

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Animated magazine

'Passage for Par' by Rosemary Lee, Par Sands Beach, Cornwall 2018. Photo: © Steve Tanner

Latest edition out now!

Spring-Summer 2019: "There's a right to assert yourself as an artist, and an equal responsibility to respond ethically and sensitively to the people and the place, history included."

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Doing things differently

Pepperland and beyond

Dance artist and writer Kate Swindlehurst reflects upon her experience of the opening night of Mark Morris Dance Group’s UK Pepperland tour and the next day Dance for people living with Parkinson's - Looking ahead: a one-day interactive symposium at Sadler’s Wells, London in March 2019

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Friends and a tool belt

Empower, connect and develop

People Dancing's Summer School 2019 is just around the corner and so we spoke to Community Dance Practitioner and Creative Director of Bodyrox Dance Company, Leah Waterfield about the impact of getting a bursary and taking part last year

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Jobs and opportunities

People Dancing Summer School. Photo: Rachel Cherry

Jobs

Here you can browse jobs, commissions and opportunities in community and participatory dance.

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Logos and certificates

A Certificate of Membership and the People Dancing Member logo for use on your publicity

For your work

Term time visits

Higher Education Membership

Exclusive to Higher Education Members; we can visit you and your students, once each year, to introduce People Dancing's services and offer a current perspective on community dance practice.

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11MRTD in Doncaster

Partnerships and support

In the third of a blog series featuring People Dancing partners from its 11 Million Reasons to Dance Strategic Touring Programme, Helen Jones, Assistant Director at darts (Doncaster Community Arts), explains how the project enabled her to change her view and how this has influenced their next steps.

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Financing the dream

People Dancing Director of Development Ruth Bates Lee 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

Curated playlists for dance practitioners

Playlists include; 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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Living with Parkinson's?

Introduction to Dance for Parkinson's, Summer School 2016. Photo: Rachel Cherry

Mapping Dance for Parkinson's classes

We've created a map featuring Dance for Parkinson's classes that take place across the country. Find your nearest one here...

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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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