Animated Edition - Winter 2025
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Focus on: Movement is our first language
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.’
We’ve a particular international flavour to this issue, with articles on community and participatory dance work from New Zealand, across mainland Europe as well as Scotland, Wales and England. We’re also invited up close and personal into the intimacy
of key moments in individuals’ stories, alongside panoramic overviews of companies, projects and practice spanning decades, geographies and years of contemplation.
Speaking of which, this time, our featured suite of articles, curated in-house by Louise Wildish, Head of Inclusion, is entitled ‘Reflections’ and celebrates ten years of our ground-breaking photographic and strategic project 11 Million Reasons to Dance. Five contrasting voices of experience in dance involving disabled people ask whether time has brought greater inclusion and what distance remains to be covered in terms of disabled people’s power to progress in an undeniably still challenging – and challenged – dance profession.
Whether you find yourself near or far from the life in dance you want or those you want to engage with in it, we hope you’ll find something in these pages to inspire. And, of course, you’ll remember that wherever you are, People Dancing is here for you. Stay close to us via our website and e-newsletters for membership, practice networks, information, events, support, courses and qualifications.
Wishing you a happy and fruitful 2025
Chris Stenton
Chief Executive
Louise Katerega
Head of Professional Development
Cover photo: Ascendance. Photo: Ant Robling.
Cover quotation: Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen. See p.25.
In this issue
Read and download the complete Winter 2025 digital edition of Animated magazine online in a flipbook.
Niquelle La Touche, Head of Academy Breakin' Convention opens the door on this new London home of learning, youth voice and hip hop evolution.
Researchers, Claire Farmer MSc and Dr. Ashley McGill share thoughts emerging from Akademi’s ongoing South Asian dance project for children with Special Educational Needs in the South East of England.
Professor Ralph Buck and Dr. Barbara Snook look back on two decades of a unique, supported opportunity for community dance artist scholars in New Zealand.
Independent Early Years Dance practitioner, Mafê Toledo, shares the delights of her practice which aims to enhance the parent-child bond through dance.
11 Million Reasons to Dance is a photography exhibition and short film programme that was conceptualised and launched in 2015 through funding from Unlimited Impact and Arts Council England.
Louise Wildish, People Dancing’s outgoing Head of Inclusion introduces ‘Reflections’ and each author at the beginning of their articles.
Artistic Director, Sarah Archdeacon writes about Corali Dance Company’s 35-year journey and why what they do is imperative to the lives, progressions and professional careers of dancers with a learning disability.
Founder and CEO of Illuminate Freedom, Louise Dickson, shares the journey to and from her involvement in the project, including how her invisible disability shaped her unique charity dedicated to people with sight loss and/or chronic pain.
For more than three decades, Candoco Dance Company have been one of the UK’s leading disability-led dance companies. Co-Artistic Director, Dominic Mitchell and Executive Director, Melanie Precious honour both its history and its need to evolve and change.
Krystal S. Lowe, a multi-disciplinary artist who was part of People Dancing’s 11 Million Reasons to Dance: Cymru project considers her current place in the landscape – literally as figuratively – as a disabled artist of colour.
Imogen Aujla of Dance in Mind, reflects on her inclusive dance research past and future – including her role in a new study for The Working Group, (Candoco Dance Company, Corali Dance Company, People Dancing, Stopgap Dance Company and TIN Arts) funded by the Arts Council of England.
Dance and fitness specialist and consultant, Jane Douglass – in an article born out of People Dancing’s Writing course last summer – illuminates the long and variable career path in dance, which, in her case, led to community dance leadership in Buckinghamshire, Southern England.
Retired accountant David Ainsworth, turns choreographer in his sixties with the support of Ascendance and his Parkinson’s Dance group peers in the English town of Headingly.
Academic, producer and access consultant, Dr Mo Pietroni-Spenst, opens up the process behind Elevate, her innovative, disabled-led, inclusive ‘slow’ conference delivered in partnership with inclusive arts organisations in Kent and Medway, South East of England.
In Pembrokshire, rural South Wales, Zosia Jo, Artistic Director of Joon Dance, dreamed of a genuinely local dance company of local dancers. We join her and the emerging artists she is nurturing on their project to make that dream reality.
Maddy Costa, writer and researcher in socially engaged dance practice ruminates on the outcomes of CROWD, a pan-European, cross-disciplinary, participatory-focussed artist residency programme.
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