People Dancing - Foundation for Community Dance

Welcome to the area of our website that provides information about People Dancing's creative development programmes.

Dance for people living with Parkinson's

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11 Million Reasons to Dance

People Dancing supports and celebrates ALL those who dance, want to dance or engage in dance. Find out more

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Health and wellbeing

Older people dancing

11 Million Reasons to Dance

Dance for people living with Parkinson's

Museum of Us: capturing community dance for future years

People Dancing: Together

Early Years Dance

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Australia bound

Inspired by Strictly Ballroom - Sean Goldthorpe, 11 Million Reasons to Dance, People Dancing

Crossing continents

‘Awesome’ images from 11 Million Reasons to Dance head for Australia

It's the dance of life

It’s the dance of life… especially a life with Parkinson’s

Paul Atherton is a keen dancer. He also lives with Parkinson’s. Paul wanted to blog for us to express just how important dance is in his life… he started well but it wasn’t long before he felt there was something else he should be doing!

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Financing the dream

People Dancing Director of Development Ruth Bates with her son, Jamie

Your child got into dance school! Now, how to pay for it?

It’s from this time of year People Dancing gets phone calls and emails from anxious parents wanting to support their children through dance training. Here our Director of Development Ruth Bates blogs on how these dreams, though expensive, can be made real.

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Inclusive ballroom

Bringing a new vibe to ballroom

Presented by Step Change Studios, ‘Fusion’, an inclusive ballroom dance showcase with disabled and non-disabled artists, premiered at Sadler’s Wells, in May. Here Rashmi Becker, Step Change Studios producer and founder, blogs for us about dance, diversity, and her drive to push the boundaries of ballroom

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Still dancing after 21 years

Eileen Burrows with the Growing Older Dis(Gracefully) Dance company

Come on Eileen! Senior dance group member celebrates at 21

88-year-old Eileen Burrows is one of the more senior members of the Growing Older (Dis) Gracefully Dance company, in Liverpool. The retired school nurse is about to perform in its celebration of 21 years of dancing.

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Viva Eastbourne!

Claire Chritou (left) and Claire Tabraham celebrate their Arts Award of the Year

BBC captures tale of two Claires

If you tuned into BBC Radio 4’s Listening Project, which profiled a number of conversations about ‘The Power of Dance’, you may remember the first podcast that featured two women who have devoted themselves to Eastbourne Dance Space…

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Dancing a way of life

How do we dance with those whose major challenge is in movement?

We dance to express our lives. For some, this can be a life with Parkinson’s. Dance artist Ruth Kent explains how, in growing a dance class in Aberdeen, she wanted to shape content around real life experiences

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Completely tangoed: body and soul

Once a dancer, always a dancer

She began with ballet, took up tango and, despite her Parkinson’s diagnosis, dance artist and writer Kate Swindlehurst has continued to be what she’s been since she was four-years-old… a dancer

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People Dancing Music

People Dancing Podcasts

People Dancing International Conference: Glasgow 2017. Photo: Rachel Cherry

Diverse presentations and debate

The People Dancing podcasts are available for you to listen to online. Don't forget to follow us on Soundcloud and iTunes for future content!

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Latest jobs

Here you can browse jobs and opportunities in community and participatory dance

Got a vacancy you want to fill? You can also post your vacancy online

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Our natural instinct

Vincent E. Thomas. Photo by Rachel Cherry

"When someone says, 'I'm not a dancer', I simply don't believe them"

US dance artist Vincent E. Thomas took time out from his visit to People Dancing’s international conference, to explain his quest to recover something that’s in danger of being lost… our natural instinct to move.

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