People Dancing - Foundation for Community Dance

Welcome to the area of our website that gives you the resources you need for your professional practice and continued professional development (CPD) in community dance. There's lots of information and plenty of features for you to explore here - take a look around.

Summer School 2018

People Dancing's Summer School runs from Monday 23 - Saturday 28 July 2018 at De Montfort University, Leicester. There are eleven inspiring courses to choose from, with world-class artists and teachers.

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Animated magazine

Animated magazine is focused towards participatory dance practice and current matters facing artists, teachers and leaders. Latest Winter 2017/18 edition out now with 13 inspiring articles to explore.

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Also in this section:

People Dancing's Summer School 2018

People Dancing International Conferences

Fact sheets and legal compliance info

Animated magazine

ArtWorks Alliance

National Occupational Standards

Online Learning

Preparing for Safer Dance Practice

Professional Code of Conduct

Dance for Parkinson's Partnership (DfPP)

Become a supporter of The Museum of Us

Providing better arts experiences for disabled people

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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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Learning from Parkinson's

Curiosity, the moving body and identity

Independent dance artist Danielle Teale, will co-lead an ‘Introduction to dance for Parkinson’s’ course at this year’s People Dancing Summer School. Here Danielle blogs on how dancing with Parkinson's has made a significant contribution to her dance practice... and her life.

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Dance and community

Debbie Purtill, balletLORENT. Photo by Iolo Penri

Inspiring us to come together through dance

Debbi Purtill, Artistic Associate at balletLORENT, will lead a workshop at this year’s People Dancing Summer School (23-28 July). With a passion for dancing and for people, Debbi is most inspired when they come together… forming a creative community.

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Taking 2PK to Norway

Instead of 'correcting' we congratulate their 're-mixing'

Alister O’Loughlin will return to our Summer School this year (23-28 July) to introduce delegates to performance-parkour (2PK). Whilst blogging, Alister was at a festival in Norway, working with young people on a site-specific performance

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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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Glasgow conference 2017. Photo: Rachel Cherry

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Join us to make the most of the insurance benefits included in our Professional Individual Membership for dance artists, teachers and leaders

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People Dancing Music

Curated playlists for dance practitioners

Curated playlists for dance practitioners including; Dance with Older People, Contemporary Dance, Dance for Early Years, South Asian Dance Styles, Lindy Hop, Dance for Parkinson's, Argentine Tango, Creative dance and Bollywood

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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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Inclusive images go digital!

11 Million Reasons to Dance, inspired by Chicago. Photo: Sean Goldthorpe

Stunning photographs reinvented

People Dancing, with funding from digital commissioning body The Space, has developed the online presence of 11 Million Reasons to Dance with a series of short films and enhanced images

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Jobs and careers

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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Animated magazine

Latest edition out now!

Animated magazine Winter 2017/18 - current issues and practice in participatory dance

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