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People Dancing Summer Intensive 2024
- Join us this July, online, on location and in our home city of Leicester 07 - 28 July 2024
Live Well and Dance with Parkinson's Symposium |
Fri 24 May, 09:00am-5:00pm, Coventry
Leadership in Action: Amplifying and advocating learning disabled dance leaders |
Wed 26 June, 10:00am-4:00pm, Leicester
People Dancing's
Professional Qualifications
for participatory artists are now open and available
Hidden Histories: Animated – Black Dance Voices |
Sat 4 May 3:00-5:00pm, Leicester
People Dancing
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.
Leading dance activities with Early Years course
Delighted by dance: creating & moving in Early Years
A
two-day (23 and 24 July)
in-person course in the studio and outdoors for dancers, teaching artists and community practitioners who want to gain skills, knowledge and experience in leading dance activities with Early Years children (aged 4 years and under).
Earth Songs: A Non-Stylised & Environmental Movement workshop
Join
Helen Poynor
in-person on
Friday 19 July 2024
for a day long course that explores her
Walk of Life
approach to working indoors and outdoors - on location, Buckfastleigh, Devon. It integrates moving in the studio with moving in response to natural environments.
People Dancing Summer Intensive 2024
Online and in-person events running 07 - 28 July 2024
Join us for one or more days of People Dancing's Summer 2024 Intensive. This mix of inspiring courses with artists from the leading edge of community and participatory dance is a chance for you to learn, experiment and reflect with like-minded colleagues.
Black Dance Voices
This roundtable discussion will delve into all articles written by Black dance practitioners and published in Animated magazine.
Pawlet Brookes MBE
, (Serendipity) will be joined by panellists
Louise Katerega
(People Dancing),
Rennaé Wilson
(dancer and educator) and
Sharon Watson
(Northern School of Contemporary Dance).
> Find out more here
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 our most recent Animated editon
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.
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.
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.
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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.
A very contemporary dance project
Sharon Scaniglia
, shares her appreciation of supporting artists, how creativity combats loneliness and her passionate belief in older age as an important time of rich self-expression.
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.
F-ing Good Zine
F-ing Good Provocation is a zine (project as well as a practice) that celebrates the 20 artists of
East and Southeast Asian diaspora
involved, who live, create and contribute to the vibrant arts landscape of the UK and beyond.
Early Years film
A discussion and exploration of early years participatory dance practice in performance with
Takeshi Matsumoto
and
Liz Clark
, Associate Artist, Early Years, People Dancing.
One Dance UK, DanceHE, People Dancing and Society for Dance Research are working collectively to draw attention to the increasing need to address the reduction of access to dance across education sectors.
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