You are here:> Home > Read, Watch & Listen > Animated magazine > Digital library
Digital library
The digital library contains articles published in Animated magazine from 1996 to present day.

Below you can search the library by Title, Author, keyword or by subject. You will be presented with a list of articles that match your search, ordered by date with the most recent first.

In this section:
Digital library
Contribute / Advertise
The history of Animated
Search records
Title
Author
Article Text
SearchStart Again
Showing page 1 of 10 pages
[ 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 ]
What do we do now? The Deconstruction of Four Decades of Dance Development in England
Animated Issue: Summer 2023
Susanne Burns, Karen Gallagher and June Gamble are three of Britain’s most respected super-producers, arts innovators and cultural consultants. Here they ruminate, reflect and call for revolution as they take us on a journey through four decades of dance development in England.
Read more
Staying off- balance
Animated Issue: Summer 2023
Suzanne Cantwell-Birkin moved to Coventry in the English West Midlands from Philadelphia in 2003 where she met Alexis Haines who completed her BA in dance at Coventry University in 2001. Eventually forming the “small but mighty” Off-Balance Dance Company, follow them here though two decades of challenge and triumph in the city they call home, where dance has been their only constant, sustaining themselves and their community.
Read more
Reimagine: dancing through the lens
Animated Issue: Summer 2023
Embracing the age of digital photography, Mark Anderson, of West Midlands-based infuseDANCE, contemplates the power of fusing dance and photography for young people, offering instant inspiration, increased engagement, mental health survival strategies and wider audiences.
Read more
Making Sense: Connection, collaboration and creativity in inclusive practice
Animated Issue: Summer 2023
Hayley Graham, one of twenty dance artists with Sense charity’s National Inclusive Dance Programme 2022-23, looks back on her experience together with Rebecca Randall, Sense’s Resident Dance Artist and Stephanie Tyrell its Head of Arts. Here they describe a delicate practice of building trust between those who create, those who lead and those who support a dance session to reveal artistic potential.
Read more
Human first, dancer second
Animated Issue: Summer 2023
“Human first, dancer second.” This is the ethos and motivation behind Birmingham’s Linden Dance Company, with professional artists, young people and communities alike. How, co-artistic director Sara Macqueen asks, can we create a safe and motivational space for people to thrive both physically and mentally?
Read more
Global Folk for global folk
Animated Issue: Summer 2023
Maria Malone, Co-Founder and CEO/Executive Director of Movema, gives us a fascinating insight into their Global Folk project, where Morris met Ukranian and Indian dance leading to revelations about what English culture can learn from its past identity and that of others to heal its present and embrace a more peaceable, diverse future.
Read more
Feeling the Rush: process and protest for our times
Animated Issue: Summer 2023
The large-scale outdoor spectacular Rush, by choreographer and Artistic Director of Southpaw Robby Graham, was commissioned by ArtReach for Leicester’s Journey’s Festival During the Summer of 2022. This was the fourth iteration of a work that has become Southpaw’s signature and a touchstone for our troubled times. One year on, Robby in conversation with People Dancing’s Louise Katerega reflects on the origins, journey and final destination of Rush, a work that has remained resonant for almost a decade and spawned a host of unlikely dancers in some of the most challenged communities in four locations in England...
Read more
An embodied understanding
Animated Issue: Summer 2023
The Velcro Collective is a female-led dance, theatre and participatory arts collective based in the South West of England, that brings outdoor performance to life for visually impaired and sighted children and family audiences. Co-founder, Louise Brown, shares the uniquely collaborative process behind their latest show, Crunch, in conversation with visually impaired dancer, Holly Thomas and audio describer, Dr. Louise Fryer.
Read more
A very contemporary dance project
Animated Issue: Summer 2023
Sharon Scaniglia, previously 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.
Read more
A choreography of parenting
Animated Issue: Summer 2023
Anita Clark, Director of The Work Room in Glasgow, Scotland, frames the voices of parent-artists as they launch a new resource. Born of a new project, RE-EMERGING, it is offered for others, like them, contemplating or navigating the complexities of resuming their practice alongside the care and raising of children.
Read more
“A real, but old urgency...”
Animated Issue: Summer 2023
Georgina Cockburn is a PhD student at The Centre for Dance Research at Coventry University centred on People Dancing’s Live Well and Dance with Parkinson’s programme. We join her on her research journey around the UK contemplating the importance of capturing individuals’ lived experience in the programme itself and the wider world.
Read more
Summer 2023 digital edition
Animated Issue: Summer 2023

Read and download the complete Summer 2023 digital edition of Animated magazine online in a flipbook.

Read more
Winter 2023 digital edition
Animated Issue: Winter 2023

Read and download the complete Winter 2023 digital edition of Animated magazine online in a flipbook.

Read more
“Never a line drawn or a spark put out”: Supporting visibility and challenging assumptions through youth dance in Scotland
Animated Issue: Winter 2023
YDance is the national dance organisation for children and young people in Scotland. It provides a range of dance opportunities across the country in rural and urban communities for young people aged 0-25 years from a diverse backgrounds and experiences. Here, Artistic Director, Anna Kenrick and Kelly Shearer, Head of Participation reflect, through three recent projects, on the direction it has taken to support the visibility of and access to dance for young disabled people, young people at risk and New Scots.
Read more
A 21st Century lifesaver
Animated Issue: Winter 2023
At the beginning of 2022 People Dancing welcomed Dr Sue Smith, Senior Lecturer & Course Leader BA (Hons) Dance & Choreography, Academy of Music and Theatre Arts (AMATA) Falmouth University as Chair. Here, we share Sue’s powerful opening address to us all about dance as an essential – especially in troubled times
Read more
Rep and reputation
Animated Issue: Winter 2023
How can a touring dance company build loyalty, real relationships and stay relevant to the communities it serves when it is only passing through? Answer: in each location, deploy the unique skills and personal connections of its freelance community and participatory dance artists as ambassadors. Emily Crouch, Engagement Producer for National Dance Company Wales, tells us more
Read more
Leaving a positive imprint
Animated Issue: Winter 2023
What, from our earliest dance experiences, stays with us to the other side of our professional training? Ashley Jordan (AJ) Artistic Director of Coventry-based Ascension Dance, shines a light on the youth dancer he was to illuminate the professional he has become – one with a passion to both replicate and grow dance opportunities for the next generation in his home city.
Read more
Soft skills in dance: a new guide to thinking about your professional development
Animated Issue: Winter 2023
Imagine how useful it would be to articulate our skills of working with others successfully, sensitively, with care – to ourselves, employers, funders and collaborators... Sara Houston, Professor of Dance and Community Engagement, University of Roehampton did just this as part of a European partnership Empowering Dance. Below she describes and invites feedback on the result of their enquiry: a rich, engaging and free digital resource useful within and beyond dance
Read more
Professional practice and practice led enquiry
Animated Issue: Winter 2023
Deborah Norris, Programme Manager and Phaedra Petsilas, Programme Leader & Head of Studies, share the vision, ethos and community of people on the MA Dance Research for Professional Practitioners at Rambert School of Ballet and Contemporary Dance
Read more
Introducing A Feminist Pedagogy Blueprint for Recreational Dance
Animated Issue: Winter 2023
Louise Marshall, Dance and Accessible Arts producer at Eden Court in the Highlands of Scotland, prompted by a desire to dig further into the influence of recreational dance on adolescent participants, has developed an easy-to-use document that prompts other dance teachers to consider their practice in relation to gender, in particular those identifying as female
Read more
From source to sea: a journey of flow
Animated Issue: Winter 2023
Sophie Lorimer pays joyful testament to her early lived experience caring for a parent with Young-Onset Parkinson’s as the creative catalyst for her career in community dance. Join her on the journey so far...
Read more
LPM Dance create global connections
Animated Issue: Winter 2023
George Adams and Helen Gould, Artistic Directors of La Petite Mort Dance Theatre (LPM) share how the growth of their practice led to an international collaboration re-visiting the approach of 20th Century Mexican-American dance pioneer Jose Limon as source material for inclusive dance now
Read more
Dance of attunement
Animated Issue: Winter 2023
What difference can a dance artist make to the lives of people in crisis? Since January 2019, independent artist Louise Klarnett has been the dance artist in residence at The Magpie Project, a community initiative for homeless under- fives and their mothers based in Newham, East London. Her words afford us an exclusive insight into this extremely protected space to witness the ‘dance of attunement’: a touchstone of the supremely delicate, ultra-responsive and deeply informed practice she has developed there both in person and online
Read more
Choreography Geography: A change of direction
Animated Issue: Winter 2023
A combination of geography, choreography and a creative response to COVID 19 refreshed the practice and reset the direction of Bridport Youth Dance Company, which is based beside the Jurassic Coast World Heritage Site in south western rural England. Teacher, producer and choreographer, Nikki Northover, explains how
Read more
My East is not your East
Animated Issue: Winter 2023
Independent Dance Artist, Jane Chan invites us all into a ’questioning practice’ about who we are and where we speak from, that we might move beyond simply not offending to understanding, care and respect
Read more
“If it needs doing...” Reflections on a decade of DanceSyndrome
Animated Issue: Winter 2023
In November 2022, North-West based inclusive dance charity DanceSyndrome was confirmed as one of Art’s Council England’s National Portfolio Organisations for 2023-2026. In February 2023, the organisation will celebrate 10 years as a charity. Here, Sue and Jen Blackwell, the mother and daughter duo who formed the charity, reflect on their journey and the barriers that they faced along the way
Read more
11 Million Reasons to Dance: Cymru
Animated Issue: Spring / Summer 2022
If ever a project transpired in the face of adversity, it’s the 11 Million Reasons to Dance: Cymru (11MRTDC) project that took place across Wales during 2021. So, it’s especially pertinent to experience the stunning photographs from the exhibition element of the project in this Spring’s edition of Animated.
Read more
Creating and analysing protest: What dance research can do
Animated Issue: Spring / Summer 2022
Dance and theatre scholar Professor Susanne Foellmer briefly sketches how choreography can be used as an analytical lens through which to scrutinise the power relations of protesting
Read more
Lines of pluck
Animated Issue: Spring / Summer 2022
Colleagues and friends Siobhan Davies and Rosemary Lee ruminate together on art and its place in society. Written during a COVID lockdown, they consider it is a positive action to believe in the good. Recognising the suffering of the dance community, they focus on the idea of positivity as one way to step towards a difference
Read more
Collaborative working to grow and sustain: a reflection
Animated Issue: Spring / Summer 2022
Chair in Dance and Director: Centre for Dance Research (C-DaRE) Professor Sarah Whatley talks about collaboration being at the heart of research and introduces dance researcher and educator Kathryn Stamp
Read more
Sharing flamenco through online spaces
Animated Issue: Spring / Summer 2022
Over the lockdown period, Anjali Dance Company, founded by Artistic Director Nicole Thomson, swiftly moved their classes online and brought in several dance artists and experts in various genres to offer the company a range of weekly sessions. Among those styles was Flamenco, taught by flamenco dancer and choreographer Rosa Cisneros from Centre for Dance Research (C-DaRE)
Read more
Creating and sustaining
Animated Issue: Spring / Summer 2022
In their second year of PhD research, disabled dance artist Kat Hawkins constructs a fresh idea of journalism and dance and their overlapping potentials, and offers insights into a Collaborative Doctoral Award
Read more
C-DaRE Invites...
Animated Issue: Spring / Summer 2022
This writing is inspired by a virtual conversation in late 2021 between Kate Marsh, Lily Hayward-Smith and Simon Ellis from the Centre for Dance Research (C-DaRE). In keeping with the ‘C-DaRE Invites...’ model, they met with cups of tea, over Zoom, and reflected on what it has been so far and hopes for what it might be in the future
Read more
“Putting sweet buns with chilli sambal”: Mixing dance and human rights in Sri Lanka
Animated Issue: Spring / Summer 2022
VisAbility is a Sri Lankan/German non-profit association focused on the empowerment of disabled people in Sri Lanka through mixed-abled dance and rights education. In the conversation that follows, Gerda König, Mahesh Umagiliya, Helena-Ulrika Marambio (VisAbility), Vipavinee Artpradid, Hetty Blades (Coventry University) and Lars Waldorf (University of Essex) reflect on VisAbility’s practice and their collaborative work
Read more
In conversation: Rosemary Lee and Rachael Davies
Animated Issue: Spring / Summer 2022
Rosemary Lee, choreographer and Associate Professor at Centre for Dance Research (C-DaRE), became involved with Chisenhale in the 1980s and was a board member 2010-15. Rachael Davies is a curator and PhD candidate at C-DaRE in collaboration with Chisenhale Dance Space. Here they have a conversation on Chisenhale Dance Space’s contribution to community dance within the context of the New Dance movement
Read more
Conversations & collaborations
Animated Issue: Spring / Summer 2022
Professor Sarah Whatley, Chair in Dance and Director: Centre for Dance Research (C-DaRE) introduces nine articles on a range of projects that have drawn together dance in higher education and dance in the wider arts sector which will be of interest to readers
Read more
Settling
Animated Issue: Spring / Summer 2022
Through a changing landscape and battleground of shattered branches and disturbed earth, movement and visual artist Catherine Hawkins is carried by inspiration, support and a feeling of lightness as she returns to nature and her practice in a time of disconnection
Read more
From score to site: shaping a solo practice
Animated Issue: Spring / Summer 2022
Eastbourne-based dance artist and teacher Yanaëlle Thiran’s mental blocks and fears disappear as she discovers new possibilities for meaning and connectedness through her improvised exploration outdoors
Read more
Can you see what I feel?
Animated Issue: Spring / Summer 2022
Physiotherapist, researcher and dance leader Dr Sophia Hulbert shares the journey, design and thoughts around her research into dance for people living with Parkinson’s
Read more
Creative practice reflection
Animated Issue: Spring / Summer 2022
Independent dance artist and arts psychotherapist Cai Tomos addresses the physical, emotional and psychological demands brought by a pandemic and reflects upon finding spaces of connection and gaining perspective by being together with support from Rubicon’s Wales Wide Training Programme
Read more
Making space to dance
Animated Issue: Spring / Summer 2022
How often do we consider the environments in which we dance? What histories are embodied within the space and bodies we inhabit? Ahead of the return of Let’s Dance International Frontiers, Pawlet Brookes MBE, CEO and Artistic Director of Serendipity, unpacks what it means to make space to dance and what this means for practitioners from the African and African Caribbean Diaspora
Read more
Say man, take heart
Animated Issue: Spring / Summer 2022
David Mckenna and Freddy Gutierrez’s transatlantic collaboration with and alongside individuals in the UK and USA prison systems explores belonging, place and lived experience through movement and poetry/ spoken word intersecting notions of masculinity and mental health. In October 2019, they delivered Say Man, Take Heart at HMP Stafford alongside eleven residents and prison staff. Here, they reflect on this journey
Read more
Forging communities
Animated Issue: Spring / Summer 2022
In the midst of difference, dance artist, choreographer, writer and director Krystal S Lowe finds ways to forge different communities with countless cups of coffee and focused debate. Here, Krystal writes about finding the best ways to support each other no matter how unconventional that support may look
Read more
Spring/Summer 2022 digital edition
Animated Issue: Spring / Summer 2022

Read and download the complete Spring/Summer 2022 digital edition of Animated magazine online in a flipbook.

Read more
Constant trailblazers?
Animated Issue: Winter 2019/20
Laura Jones is a fierce advocate for disabled people in dance, working across the UK and internationally. Since joining Stopgap in 2001 Laura has been integral to the growth and direction of the company. Here, she invites us to look at what’s changed in her world since then through the lenses of art, disability, expectations, worthiness and responsibility
Read more
Valleys dancing
Animated Issue: Summer 2020
Artis Community’s Development Officer and Dance Leader Linzi Ann Rumph talks about artform, flexibility and inclusive dance practice as a mechanism to support the South Wales community in their everyday lives
Read more
Queering the Somatic
Animated Issue: Summer 2020
In November 2019 Dr. Adesola Akinleye and Helen Kindred, co-Artistic Directors of DancingStrong Movement Lab and Senior Lecturers at Middlesex University London, curated a two-day symposium - Queering the Somatic: interrupting the narrative - which brought together artists, practitioners, researchers moving within the fields of dance, queer theory, feminism, narrative, and somatic practices. Here they introduce the following articles which are contributed by some of the Symposium’s speakers
Read more
Talking together / Queering together!
Animated Issue: Summer 2020
Performer, choreographer and teacher Andrew Waldron shares how the experience of and connections made in attending Queering the Somatic impacted him personally and influenced his studies
Read more
Towards an otherwise sort of being
Animated Issue: Summer 2020
Symposium keynote speaker and Professor of Dance at Duke University, North Carolina, Dr Thomas F. DeFrantz speaks from his personal experience of queering on a project which “shifted the sense of what my dancing could be and could be for” as well as asking wider questions of what queering might evoke for us in terms of imagination, effort, agreement and limitless possibilities
Read more
The practice behind the ‘practice’
Animated Issue: Summer 2020
What is this elusive thing we call our 'practice’, our 'voice'? Do you find it, or does it find you? How do you grow it, with whom and for how long? Is it a case of a flash of inspiration or commitment over time? And when is it ready to pass it on? Vicki Igbokwe, choreographer, movement director, facilitator and founder of Uchenna Dance tells us about her own journey and the value of taking the time you need and savouring and learning from each step you take
Read more
Greenwich Dance and the coronavirus
Animated Issue: Summer 2020
When Melanie Precious, Chief Executive Officer, Greenwich Dance was invited to submit an article for this issue of Animated she imagined she would use the opportunity to tell readers about the great strides Greenwich Dance has been making over the last 18 months. And then COVID-19 happened
Read more
It’s Your Move
Animated Issue: Summer 2020
Sarah Boulter and Adele Wragg, Co-Artistic Directors of Spiltmilk Dance, hand over the creation of their latest work to 100 choreographers with no previous experience of dance
Read more
What Have YOU Done To Deserve This?
Animated Issue: Summer 2020
Dr Mark Edward, lives, works and negotiates chronic pain to deliver his ‘artistic mess’ to the public. Focusing on how, as a dance artist, he has used movement as a way of healing and physical identity forming he says ‘it’s been a hell of a journey’ but that creating work has been a dance theatre of rejuvenation and narrative therapeutics
Read more
Improvisation and change
Animated Issue: Summer 2020
Helen Kindred is a dancer, choreographer and movement practitioner, and co-curator of Queering the Somatic symposium with Dr. Adesola Akinleye. Queering, for Helen, is a process of questioning; the possibility of change, of resistance, of questioning assumptions, blurring boundaries, embracing difference and defying a singular definition. Here, she describes the improvised, participatory performance/presentation she shared at the symposium and the thinking that expands from it
Read more
Believable bodies: sensory authority and community dance practice
Animated Issue: Summer 2020
Queering the Somatic workshop leader and somatic Pilates teacher Elaine Westwick addresses a particular form of embodied difference - not outer, physical manifestations of difference but differences in inner, felt experiences and describes how movement and dance, particularly community classes, can provide a window into sensory experience and the acceptance of differences within
Read more
People, Practice, Process
Animated Issue: Winter 2019/20
Clint Lutes has taught professionals, non-professionals, migrants, people living with Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s, young, old and others around the world. His choreographic work has increasingly become centred around working with non-professionals and he uses dance as a vehicle to inform, connect and communicate. He is a participant in various scientific and artistic research projects and here he shares part of his creative journey 
Read more
Move Dance Feel
Animated Issue: Winter 2017/18
In 2016 community dance artist Emily Jenkins launched a project offering weekly dance and movement sessions to women recovering from cancer. The project has proved very successful, bringing about a variety of benefits for the women involved 
Read more
Physically Being Me
Animated Issue: Winter 2014
Louise Wildish, a Producer at the Foundation for Community Dance, reflects upon the creation of a film based around the positive journeys and thoughts of six disabled people working in dance
Read more
Being me
Animated Issue: Winter 2019/20
As Engagement Creative Director at Scottish Ballet Lorraine Jameson’s job is to select parts of the repertoire and use them to create accessible and inclusive projects. Here she describes her journey within the organisation which includes their latest project Safe to Be Me 
Read more
Don’t stop being an artist
Animated Issue: Winter 2019/20
Based in Scotland, dance artist Sara Kemal travels into Europe to consider ways to sustain a career and define her professional identity by exploring her roots, her core artistic values and climate change
Read more
Where magic happens
Animated Issue: Winter 2019/20
Project and communications manager, Corina Hösli, reaches out from Switzerland to bring us up close to the practice of Marie Nüzel’s Search in(g) Bodies, where participation and performance invite us to think again about ageing
Read more
Facilitating dance in communities affected by forced migration
Animated Issue: Winter 2019/20
Dance artist and scholar Dr Paula Guzzanti reflects on her five weeks’ residency facilitating dance and wellbeing for Nicaraguan refugees living in Costa Rica. She considers the potential of dance improvisation and mindfulness as part of a humanitarian aid effort
Read more
A community, dancing
Animated Issue: Winter 2019/20
27 years ago, independent dance artist, Debi Hedderwick, committed to building a practice in her new home village of Wirksworth in Derbyshire. Here, she reflects on the unique rewards and challenges of an embedded, yet still evolving, community dance practice in rural England
Read more
Dance and borders
Animated Issue: Winter 2019/20
Co-Motion: Dance and Borders, the first all-Ireland dance industry and research conference held in Belfast in October 2019, was a cross-border dance initiative by Dance Resource Base and Dance Ireland. Here, Orla McGrady (General Manager, Dance Resource Base), Dr Aoife McGrath (Queen’s University Belfast), and Jane Mooney (Board Member, Dance Resource Base) reflect upon the weekend
Read more
Going the extra mile
Animated Issue: Winter 2019/20
Artistic Director of Artistry Youth Dance, Kamara Gray has been on a global journey. Here, she reflects on a path that led her from the Antipodes to London ending in a recent close encounter between the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater and her company which demonstrates the vitality of determined and inspired leadership where aspirations are plentiful yet role models are few
Read more
Finding my rhythm
Animated Issue: Winter 2019/20
Sara Marshall-Rose shares her joy of discovering body percussion as a D/deaf community dance practitioner and the journeys it has taken her on, back to her own earliest dance roots and forward in her participatory practice
Read more
Dance Club at Scrubs
Animated Issue: Winter 2019/20
People Dancing member Helena Webb reflects on leading a dance and choreography course with inmates at HMP Wormwood Scrubs
Read more
Deep-mapping memories of genocide through dance in Rwanda
Animated Issue: Spring/Summer 2019
Political geographer Giselle Eugenia Connell discusses her interests in geopolitics, post-colonialism and performance of the body
Read more
Miliwn o Ddawnswyr Cymraeg: A million Welsh dancers
Animated Issue: Spring/Summer 2019
Based in North Wales, Independent Dance Artist, Angharad Harrop, addresses the role dance can play in providing opportunities for young people and families to use and learn Welsh outside the classroom
Read more
A balancing act
Animated Issue: Spring/Summer 2019
Rosemary Lee was invited to Derry in 2012 by Echo Echo Dance Theatre Company to discuss their commissioning of her to create a large-scale participatory dance project to be performed during Derry/Londonderry’s year as European City of Culture (2013). Her keynote lecture and film presentation described the creative process, and considered issues of ownership, the role of the artist/outsider, access, and social outcomes among participants and visitors to the installation. Here she discusses her work interviewed by fellow keynote speaker Professor Victor Merriman
Read more
Dancing in a world that matters: artistic citizenship in practice
Animated Issue: Spring/Summer 2019
Dr Fiona Bannon is senior lecturer at the University of Leeds and Chair of DanceHE. This article shares passages from her recent publication Considering Ethics in Dance, Theatre and Performance arguing for the inherent value of dance as a route to learning through bodily motion, suggesting it is here that we learn from the centre of our existence in the world
Read more
Holding space
Animated Issue: Spring/Summer 2019
Charlotte Vincent, choreographer and Artistic Director of Vincent Dance Theatre (VDT) makes ‘crucial performance for the critical times in which we live’. She works with an intergenerational, diverse ensemble on stage, on film and online, with the intention of ‘moving people and making them think’. VDT’s productions make significant claims for gender politics, and increasingly for social change. Here is a short excerpt of Vincent’s keynote presentation at LEAP 2018
Read more
Our Dance Democracy (ODD)
Animated Issue: Spring/Summer 2019
ODD was Merseyside Dance Initiative (MDI) and Liverpool Hope University's (LHU) conference focusing on Dance, Performance, Culture and Civic Democracy. Here, conference organiser’s, Dr Sarah Black and Karen Gallagher MBE, introduce the following articles which are contributed by some of its speakers
Read more
Giving communities a voice through professional collaboration
Animated Issue: Spring/Summer 2019
balletLORENT’s Founder and Artistic Director, Liv Lorent MBE and the company have worked for over 25 years to incorporate the voices of communities into their artistic programme by collaborating with diverse groups and individuals from all over the UK. Here, James MacGillivray, Education and Projects Manager, unpacks this crucial relationship
Read more
The concept of ‘community’ and professional dance
Animated Issue: Spring/Summer 2019
Performer, writer and lecturer, Funmi Adewole, talks about sustainability of practice, the concept of ‘community’ and how the way we think about what we do helps us to develop and direct our practice. Does consciously thinking about how we define ‘community’ enable the practitioner to have a more flexible and sustainable attitude to working in dance and therefore a greater impact?
Read more
Greater than the sum of the parts
Animated Issue: Spring/Summer 2019
Based in Derbyshire, dance education specialist Claire Pring believes dance is at the heart of a healthy school system and we should do whatever we can to support it
Read more
Dancing in the landscape
Animated Issue: Winter 2011
Rosa Shreeves, reveals her dance encounters with the people and the natural world of Guatemala
Read more
Thresholding
Animated Issue: Spring/Summer 2019
Dramaturg, writer and curator Ruth Little discusses the act of ‘thresholding’ within an expanded movement practice, exploring the potential of the threshold as a place in-between, of suspension before transformation. As she identifies in her paper – dance is an enquiry into how things can change
Read more
Dancing in the dark
Animated Issue: Spring/Summer 2019
Dance artist and PhD Candidate at Lancaster University Ellen Jeffrey talks about her movement practice that takes place outdoors at night, where she moves with and within an unpolluted night-time darkness
Read more
Performance, democracy and deficit culture
Animated Issue: Spring/Summer 2019
Victor Merriman, Professor of Critical Performance Studies at Edge Hill University, Lancashire established the Performance and Civic Futures Research Group in 2013, so as to contest Britain’s disabling deficit culture, and investigate democratic alternatives to austerity. His ongoing work is concerned with drama, democracy-building, and a political economy of human flourishing
Read more
Response-Relationship-Engagement-Dance
Animated Issue: Autumn-Winter 2018/19
Dawns i Bawb (DiB) is the community dance organisation for North West Wales. Covering urban and rural areas, a city and an island! It is unique, being one of the very few dance organisations in Wales working primarily through the Welsh language. Artistic Director, Catherine Young underlines its value 
Read more
Breaking barriers
Animated Issue: Autumn 2015
Chaz Bonnar, aka ChazB, is a 23-year-old international videographer and dancer from Glasgow. In 2014, he was the youngest person to be awarded a Travelling Fellowship by the Winston Churchill Memorial Trust as his research took him to the US to learn how Breaking and Hip Hop culture benefits young people from deprived backgrounds
Read more
Fertile and grounded
Animated Issue: Autumn-Winter 2018/19
Dora Frankel is a dancer, choreographer, movement director, educator, mentor/coach and choreologist (dance notator). She is also Founding Artistic Director of Fertile Ground. In this article she shares a little about her life, focusing on Fertile Ground and also the greatest barrier she has faced 
Read more
Mainstream not marginalised
Animated Issue: Autumn-Winter 2018/19
Based on a work-based doctorate in Professional Studies freelance advisor, presenter and older dancer Dr Jacqueline Richards talks about an evolving social phenomenon that is rising up social, health and political agendas, affecting the dancing world – dance for active older people
Read more
Where past and future are gathered
Animated Issue: Autumn-Winter 2018/19
This past year has been very significant for Liverpool based dance company Growing Older (Dis)Gracefully Dance. All members are over 60, the oldest 88 and between them they have about 400 dancing years. Long-time member Judy Smith shares their journey
Read more
Defining new participation
Animated Issue: Autumn-Winter 2018/19
In 2018, two projects helped Shobana Jeyasingh Dance develop and nourish its ambition: a year-long residency in a London primary school, and a digital project, A Most Contagious Dance. Learning Manager, Alice Odin illustrates the benefits of this strong commitment to learning and participation 
Read more
Over the moon
Animated Issue: Autumn-Winter 2018/19
Ian Abbott, Executive Director of 2Faced Dance Company, explains how new thinking was needed to create MOON, an ambitious outdoor dance and circus production which includes both British Sign Language and Audio Description
Read more
Living the DanceSyndrome dream
Animated Issue: Autumn-Winter 2018/19
Established in 2009, DanceSyndrome was the inspiration of founder and Creative Director, Jen Blackwell, who has Down’s syndrome and struggled to find opportunities to follow her dream of being a dancer and dance leader. Director (and proud mum) Sue Blackwell talks to daughter Jen and lead artist, Sophie Tickle about being empowered by inclusive dance 
Read more
Insert title here
Animated Issue: Autumn-Winter 2018/19
Artistic Director, Gemma Coldicott, reflects on SLiDE’s (South London Inclusive Dance Experience) seminal intergenerational performance piece and highlights ways of working towards relaxed performances and inviting an audience to ‘be themselves’ 
Read more
So what has this got to do with dance?
Animated Issue: Autumn-Winter 2018/19
DQDT Artistic Director and People Dancing board member, Dylan Quinn asks how can we choose between our artistic performance practice and developing dance opportunities for the community when both things are mutually dependable and interlinked? 
Read more
The folk dancing
Animated Issue: Autumn-Winter 2018/19
In March 2018, the English Folk Dance and Song Society (EFDSS) hosted Steps for Success, its first conference on the practice of social folk dance for several decades, in collaboration with People Dancing. The Dance for Parkinson’s Partnership UK proposed the inclusion of a workshop exploring how folk dance might be adapted for people living with Parkinson’s. Anna Gillespie, co-founder of Musical Moving, was approached to forge new connections and explore these possibilities. Here’s what she found out 
Read more
Putting the workforce first...
Animated Issue: Autumn-Winter 2018/19
Dr Susanne Burns, Churchill Fellow 2017, is an arts and cultural sector consultant from Sunderland who travelled to Australia and the USA to study models of supporting artists whose work enables others to participate in the arts. Here, reflecting on her journey, she asks some critical questions
Read more
Here you are, are you here?
Animated Issue: Spring 2018
Leverhulme artist in residence(1) Paula Turner has spent the last 10 months in the department of Geography, Politics and Sociology at Newcastle University exploring movement and embodiment through space, drawing on geographical metaphors concerning internal weather, the landscapes of the body and the spatialities of awareness
Read more
Exploring impact and conditions for success
Animated Issue: Spring 2018
People Dancing’s 11 Million Reasons to Dance strategic touring project took place between 2016-2018. Following its completion a full evaluation of the project was conducted, and the report is soon to be published. Here, Coventry University PhD candidate and evaluator, Kathryn Stamp, reflects on the development of the evaluation 
Read more
A positive life
Animated Issue: Spring 2018
Choreographer Johnny Autin opens up about living with HIV and his ambitions to make an impact with audiences and communities
Read more
People Dancing: looking to the future
Animated Issue: Spring 2018
Continued >>  People Dancing’s refreshed purpose, organisational and artistic values, as well as a sense of our plans and priorities for 2018 – 2022. 
Read more
Living apart, dancing together
Animated Issue: Spring 2018
Lily Jackson, Development Officer, Donor Communications & Research on how Canada’s National Ballet School is using technology to help seniors in rural and geographically isolated locations age with confidence
Read more
Big Dance Australia 2018
Animated Issue: Spring 2018
2018 signified Australia leading Big Dance for the first time – launching on International Dance Day and opening with a ‘smoking ceremony’ and a sea of thousands of people dancing together – Director, Michelle Silby hopes this is just the start
Read more
Creative practice as personal and professional recovery
Animated Issue: Spring 2018
We are never truly still, we are constantly moving, developing, expanding, growing… our bodies, our practice, our understanding. To do this takes time, awareness and a good amount of mistake-making. But what happens when you get stuck, the channels get blocked or the mistakes feel too big to overcome? Practitioner-researcher, Emily-Rose Cluderay reflects
Read more
If you can dance together, you can live together
Animated Issue: Spring 2018
Edith Wolf Perez, editor of the tanz.at webzine, retraces the history and celebrates the remarkable achievements of Tanz die Toleranz (Dance the Tolerance), in Vienna, Austria
Read more
Showing page 1 of 10 pages
[ 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 ]
You may also be
interested in
>
Digital library
Contribute / Advertise
The history of Animated
CONTACT US
LCB Depot, 31 Rutland Street
Leicester, LE1 1RE

info@communitydance.org.uk
FOLLOW US
Follow us on Twitter
Follow us on Facebook
Follow us on Instagram
Follow us on YouTube
SIGN UP FOR NEWSLETTERS
Click below to keep up to date with jobs listings, specialist content and the latest news & views from People Dancing.
SIGN UP TODAY
Supported by the Arts CouncilArts Council logo
Supported by the Community FundCommunity Fund logo
Supported by Here For CultureHere For Culture logo
© People Dancing 2023  Site Map
Credits
Terms & Conditions Privacy Policy Cookies
Login