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Individual Membership

For teachers, artists, students, practitioners, leaders and choreographers.

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Organisation Membership

For dance companies, libraries, arts organisations, schools and universities.

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Higher Education Membership

For lecturers, course leaders and those running higher education and university dance programmes, designed specifically with their dance students in mind.

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Candoco Dance Company, Corali, People Dancing, Stopgap Dance Company and TIN Arts are co-collaborators in a shared enquiry and Working Group to challenge ourselves and others to increase and sustain the presence and representation by disabled people in the dance workforce and its leadership.

People Dancing Summer Intensive 2024

Courtesy of Empowering Dance (archive of the project).

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.

Approaches to Dance with Older People Qualification

People Dancing Summer School. Photo: Rachel Cherry.

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

‘Vitolda Klein’ – Vitolda Klein (Unsplash)

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.

The single most important thing we do

Claire Pring, People Dancing's Summer Intensive 2023. Photo: Rachel Cherry.

Whilst attending People Dancing's Summer Intensive, Dance Specialist, Claire Pring took some time to step back, view her practice and to mull, consider and ask herself some big questions.

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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.

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.

Read, Watch & Listen: Films

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

People Dancing have been involved in making films for 20 years - find some of them here.

Jobs and opportunities

People Dancing in the Summer. Photo: Rachel Cherry.

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

Online learning courses

People Dancing's International Conference, Glasgow. Photo: Rachel Cherry

These online learning courses address a range of subjects that community dance practitioners may wish to learn more about providing dance practitioners with a chance to learn at their own pace, at a time and in a place to suit themselves.