Animated Edition - Winter 2009
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Focus on: health
From the editor
This issue focuses on some of the different ways that dance artists are approaching health issues: a project that encompasses the wider health issues of participation in dance though a partnership between dance and the sports sector in East London; dance's contribution to a mental health project; and Protein Dance working in a hospital school. Finally we look at an ambitious international initiative of the Connect Team at Sadler's Wells, which worked with young people in the UK and Namibia looking at HIV and sex education.
We have also developed further our Professional Framework for Community
Dance and this issue publish some current definitions of community
dance, a set of core values for the profession and a code of
professional conduct.These were identified during our original
consultations with FCD members and the dance sector more generally as
priorities, and have been produced with the support of our development
partners. The article sets out some of the ways in which we hope you can
use them to support your work, test their effectiveness, and let us
know what you think.
In the coming months we will be publishing a series of policy
documents that the staff and Board of the Foundation for Community Dance
have been working on, to assist us to clarify our priorities for the
coming period and to assist our members in providing a rationale for
them to engage in these areas of work. The policy areas are: Dance and
2012;Dance and Disabled People; Dance and Health; Workforce Development
and community dance in an International context. Our intention is to
evolve future issues of Animated to reflect all of these priorities, to
better support our readers and associates in their work.
Ken Bartlett, Creative Director, Foundation for Community Dance
In this issue
Our roving columnist Donald Hutera is mad about a Swiss museum of 'outsider' art. But what has this got to do with dance?
Ken Bartlett, Creative Director, Foundation for Community Dance
The focus: health
Carolyn Naish and Manuela Beste on a dance programme developed with young participants in a hospital school
Fiona Ross on Sadler's Wells education team with Ctrl.Alt.Shift on a project about sex education and the political engagement of young people
Karen Bell looks at how local authority and primary care partners evaluate and value dance with young people
Polly Risbridger and Tia Hassan on the recent launch of DansAthletic: A Teachers Resource, inspired by the Olympic and Paralympic Games
Gerry Turvey describes her work in dance and mental health
In conversation
Debbie Lee-Anthony on the 'extraordinary poetry of the ageing dancer'
Karen Gallagher, Artistic Director of Merseyside Dance Initiative, in conversation with Rachel Rogers
Intercultural Dialogue
Soo Wright describes a creative dance project that supports people in learning English
International
Jonathan Silverman and Martha Ming Whitfield describe a professional development initiative with Royal Opera House Education in Beijing
Professional Development
Ken Bartlett and Chris Stenton present current definitions, core values and a code of professional conduct for community dance.