People Dancing - Foundation for Community Dance

Developing Practice

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.

People Dancing's Summer School
People Dancing's International Conferences
Fact sheets and legal compliance information
Animated magazine
ArtWorks Alliance
National Occupational Standards
Online learning
Dance for Parkinson's Partnership (DfPP)
Professional standards
Knowledge Bank
Funding support
Events and activities archive
Careers Information
FAQs

"Sounds like a mouthful. . ."

"Sounds like a bit of a mouthful. . ."

Co-author and Director of Development, Ruth Bates talks about how our new online learning programme demystifies the fundraising process

Ruth's vlog

Animated magazine

Animated Autumn-Winter 2018/19 cover: Dylan Quinn, TOST. Photo: Luca Truffarelli

Latest edition out now!

This Autumn-Winter 2018/19 edition of Animated provides a platform for the diverse voices of dance artists and leaders sharing what drives them forward.

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Dance for Parkinson's

Dancing for positive shared experience

Community dance artist Rachael James loves the feeling of freedom that dancing brings and the belief that with the right environment, permission and influences, we can all dance. This is what led her to complete her dance for Parkinson’s training…

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Doing access digitally

Louise Wildish - Producer, People Dancing

Access as the starting point for creativity

Thanks to funding from digital commissioning body The Space, the 11 Million Reasons to Dance photography exhibition has hit a much bigger online audience. Yet, as producer Louise Wildish explains, it had to be made accessible…

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Translating touch

Kath Kimber-McTiffen, Wriggle Dance Theatre

Dance meets science to explore touch

On meeting a prominent neuroscientist, Kath Kimber-McTiffen, of Wriggle Dance Theatre, could see that the theme of ‘touch’ not only links the arts and science… it might also create a beautiful, interactive dance piece

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Dancing for equality

Anne-Marie Smalldon, Combination Dance Company

Heroic tale in women's history made real through dance

Anne-Marie Smalldon, Artistic Director of Combination Dance Company, blogs on 100nehundred, a dance/history collaboration with The National Archives inspired by this year’s centenary of British women’s suffrage and modern gender equality issues

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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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No barriers

Photo shows Natasha Britton, Magpie Dance

Seeing every 'body' dance - for enjoyment, for art, for a career

Inspired by artistic director Avril Hitman and all the Magpie Dance team, Natasha Britton explains her passion to achieve "a world where a learning disability is no barrier to personal and artistic success in dance"

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What's in a name?

Kiki Gale - Director, Dance for Parkinson's Partnership UK. Photo by Rachel Cherry

Partnership set to build

With a change of name to The Dance for Parkinson’s Partnership UK, the former Dance for Parkinson’s Network is now well positioned blogs Kiki Gale...

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Voice and Presence update

Voice and Presence... the story so far

Launched last spring to acknowledge, amplify and celebrate the influence on participatory dance of women of the African Diaspora, People Dancing’s Voice and Presence edged past its half-way point, in October 2017.

Our mid-point report

Dancing through pain

I have chronic pain. But I still need to dance

Raquel Meseguer, Co-Founder of Lost Dog, reflects on her journey from professional dancer, through injury, to developing projects that explore chronic pain in performance.

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