People Dancing

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!

Inclusive Practice: Collective Rhythms, Individual Stories 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Words to Move: Writing effectively about your work 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!

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!

A unique 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.

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.

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.

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'.

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

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).

Animated Winter 2025

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.’

“Movement is our first language. Dance is the poetry of that language.”

Helen Linsell, Artistic Director of Dance United Yorkshire, shares her practice working with vulnerable adult women and reflects on the impact of adopting a trauma-informed approach to ensure meaningful and long-term engagement.