Read, Watch & Listen

People Dancing's leadership of the community dance network provides a platform for exchange, critical debate and peer learning. This helps to expand our members' professional horizons, profile and professional identity.

Our Read, Watch & Listen area reflects this commitment to challenge, support and inspire dance professionals and our partners, including those who just love or want to dance. Featuring new dance projects, skills development, industry initiatives, thought leadership, the sharing of best practice, practical support and sector content that will inform, educate and entertain.

In this section:

Animated magazine

Blogs and Vlogs

Films

Participate newspaper

Contributing to Animated magazine and our blogs, vlogs and podcasts

People Dancing advocate for the power for community and participatory dance in several ways - articles in our twice-yearly magazine, Animated and the blogs, vlogs and podcasts in our Read, Watch & Listen area of the website.

These publishing contributions are both created by and aimed at the glorious variety of creative practitioners and those who support them that make up our important part of the dance profession.

This is our invitation to you… to contribute your voice in your way to People Dancing!

Click on the information sheets provided below to learn more about:

what we need from you, when and how
the various lengths and types of contributions you could make
the wide varieties of dance styles, topics and voices we value from the UK and worldwide
the journey to publication and what it might do for you and your work
the accessible approaches and support we offer along the way.

You do not necessarily have to be a People Dancing Member to contribute or access our publications. We embrace those new to sharing their their work though our channels as much as we embrace those with whom we have long relationships and it is a great way to publicise what you do to our 4,500 plus members and subscribers and share in our 20,000 plus reach on social media.

For full details or to pitch us your ideas please explore the information contained in the two documents below and/or get in touch with Louise Katerega, Head of Professional Development louisek@communitydance.org.uk

Contributors callout for Animated Magazine

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Contributors call out for blogs vlogs podcasts

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Latest digital edition!

Animated Autumn 2025

Welcome to the second 2025 edition of Animated where we’re delighted to introduce an exciting and timely focus here at People Dancing: Dance Health and Wellbeing.

Members login to view and download here.

It’s the little things…

People Dancing Summer School 2024. Photo: Mark Anderson.

If you are contemplating attending this year's Summer Intensive 2025, perhaps independent dance artist and educator Claire Pring - who has both delivered and participated in it - can offer some food for thought. Here, writing fresh from a workshop last year, Claire has a moment of realisation about what she values about ‘continuing professional development'.

A joyful end!

Dancing Together with Parkinson’s West Midlands, Albany Theatre. Photos: Andrew Moore.

Dancing Together with Parkinson’s West Midlands was a nine-month long legacy project from People Dancing’s Live Well & Dance with Parkinson’s programme funded by the Inclusive Communities Fund (Heart of England Community Foundation).

Picking up the Pieces

Bradford Women's Dance Company. Photo: Brian Slater.

Helen Linsell, Artistic Director of Dance United Yorkshire, shares her practice working with vulnerable adult women and reflects on the impact of adopting a trauma-informed approach to ensure meaningful and long-term engagement.

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.

Dance in the Dark – new beginnings

In this blog Kath Kimber-McTiffen talks about her new research & development project, Dance in the Dark and how she finds ways to continue to challenge and develop her own practice of making work for Early Years and families.

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.

Risk Assessment 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.

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.

Letting The Light In

A connected conversation for a dis-united nation. In this online conversation panellists discuss the specifics of the state of community dance as we navigate Brexit, the pandemic, war in Europe and the climate crisis.

A very contemporary dance project

Sharon Scaniglia, manager of ArtsSpeak in Nottingham shares her appreciation of supporting artists, how creativity combats loneliness and her passionate belief in older age as an important time of rich self-expression. These come together for her in the magic of Cool Company, a gallery-based dance project for over 60s led by choreographer, Deane McQueen.

The Open-Ended Entity

A new blog from dance artist Hayley Guest at the beginning of an Early Years Action Research project called Move Play Create.

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.