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Membership of People Dancing is open to all who support, engage with or have an interest in community and participatory dance. Our membership reaches more than 4,500 dance professionals worldwide.

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

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Student Membership

Teaching Dance to Primary Schools, Summer School 2016, photo by Rachel Cherry

Designed to be an invaluable study resource

Open to all UK students of dance or education and training at any level. Join anytime during your course of study and get up to 3 years' brilliant benefits for just £18.

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Animated magazine

Animated Spring 2018 magazine cover. Photo: Iain Garett www.igdesign.photography

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Animated magazine Spring 2018 - current issues and practice in participatory dance

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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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A spark starts a prairie fire

Anthony Peppiatt reflects on initiating the community dance project at Ludus Dance in the early 1980s, and how his radical politics had been central to this. Christopher Thomson introduces.

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Members' Insurance Cover

If you're a dance teacher, artist or leader, join People Dancing as a Professional Individual Member and enjoy insurance cover as a key member benefit.

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Dance without touch?

BLOG Post

The author of our very first People Dancing blog is the renowned community dance pioneer, Cecilia Macfarlane. We’re grateful to Cecilia for getting our blog off the ground, especially as she penned it on a plane en route from Japan to San Francisco!

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Learning and Participation (Dance) Programme Manager

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