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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.
Latest digital edition!
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.”
Picking up the Pieces
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.
Let's get more people dancing!
Let’s Dance!
is a fantastic UK-wide initiative and campaign, spearheaded by broadcaster and journalist
Angela Rippon CBE
, all about encouraging everybody to embrace the joy and benefits of dancing.
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Moving Beyond Convention
In this blog, an accompaniment to this vlog live from the breaking competition at last summer’s Paris Olympics,
Jonzi D
, Artistic Director of
Breakin’ Convention
speaks from the heart about finding himself inspired by the dancers and deeply disappointed in the systems around them - including THAT notoriously toxic (mis)reporting of the women’s competition.
The transformative power of dance
In the spring of 2024, medical student
Andria Saji
worked with People Dancing’s Deputy CEO and Head of Health & Wellbeing
Yaël Owen
, to explore the transformative power of dance for people living with Parkinson’s in the context of her training as a doctor ...and as a lifelong dancer...
Research Team Appointed
The Working Group
has appointed for a nationwide investigation to identify systemic barriers that prevent disabled people from entering, sustaining and progressing their careers in the dance sector.
Approaches to Dance for Early Years Qualification
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 has developed qualifications which enable dancers, teaching artists and community practitioners working in participatory settings to
evidence their skills and knowledge
.
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
In this Animated article
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
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.
A choreography of parenting
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.
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