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Michael Joseph, People Dancing Summer Intensive. Photo: Rachel Cherry.
Animated Issue: Winter 2024
Independent Dance Artists, Michael Joseph (MJ), Lindsay Moffatt and Louise White joined forces to create a fresh-thinking, disco based workshop for people with Young Onset Parkinson’s in their home county of Hertfordshire, eastern England. Here, they continue the collaboration, telling how their roads met and merged and offering insight into what it takes to make a first move in your Parkinson’s dance career.
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.
ABC Summer Sessions. Photo: Ki media.
Animated Issue: Winter 2025
Niquelle La Touche, Head of Academy Breakin' Convention opens the door on this new London home of learning, youth voice and hip hop evolution.
Photo: Justin Jones and Akedemi.
Animated Issue: Winter 2025
Researchers, Claire Farmer MSc and Dr. Ashley McGill share thoughts emerging from Akademi’s ongoing South Asian dance project for children with Special Educational Needs in the South East of England.
Animated Issue: Winter 2025

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Anna Gordon.
Animated Issue: Winter 2025
Independent Early Years Dance practitioner, Mafê Toledo, shares the delights of her practice which aims to enhance the parent-child bond through dance.
Shaquille George & Bakani Pick-Up, dancing in CROWD residency. Photo: Usha Mahenthiralingam.
Animated Issue: Winter 2025
Maddy Costa, writer and researcher in socially engaged dance practice ruminates on the outcomes of CROWD, a pan-European, cross-disciplinary, participatory-focussed artist residency programme.
Big Flock 2024 by Karel Jasper with Zosia Jo, Sophie Lorimer and Tedi.
Animated Issue: Winter 2025
In Pembrokshire, rural South Wales, Zosia Jo, Artistic Director of Joon Dance, dreamed of a genuinely local dance company of local dancers. We join her and the emerging artists she is nurturing on their project to make that dream reality.
Anna Braithwaite and Molly Young, Elevate slow conference. Photo: Joe Hill, Hilltop Visuals.
Animated Issue: Winter 2025
Academic, producer and access consultant, Dr Mo Pietroni-Spenst, opens up the process behind Elevate, her innovative, disabled-led, inclusive ‘slow’ conference delivered in partnership with inclusive arts organisations in Kent and Medway, South East of England.
Ascendance. Photo: Rachel Wesson.
Animated Issue: Winter 2025
Retired accountant David Ainsworth, turns choreographer in his sixties with the support of Ascendance and his Parkinson’s Dance group peers in the English town of Headingly.
Year 6 Furze Platt Junior School, Maidenhead. Photo: Becky Tishaw.
Animated Issue: Winter 2025
Dance and fitness specialist and consultant, Jane Douglass – in an article born out of People Dancing’s Writing course last summer – illuminates the long and variable career path in dance, which, in her case, led to community dance leadership in Buckinghamshire, Southern England.
Photographer: Rachel Cherry courtesy of The Imperial Society of Teachers of Dancing.
Animated Issue: Winter 2025
Imogen Aujla of Dance in Mind, reflects on her inclusive dance research past and future – including her role in a new study for The Working Group, (Candoco Dance Company, Corali Dance Company, People Dancing, Stopgap Dance Company and TIN Arts) funded by the Arts Council of England.
Krystal S. Lowe’s Mud Pies. Photos: Tegan Foley Photography.
Animated Issue: Winter 2025
Krystal S. Lowe, a multi-disciplinary artist who was part of People Dancing’s 11 Million Reasons to Dance: Cymru project considers her current place in the landscape – literally as figuratively – as a disabled artist of colour.
Over And Over (And Over Again), Candoco, Dan Daw Creative Projects. Photo: Hugo Glendinning.
Animated Issue: Winter 2025
For more than three decades, Candoco Dance Company have been one of the UK’s leading disability-led dance companies. Co-Artistic Director, Dominic Mitchell and Executive Director, Melanie Precious honour both its history and its need to evolve and change.
Photo: Sean Goldthorpe.
Animated Issue: Winter 2025
Founder and CEO of Illuminate Freedom, Louise Dickson, shares the journey to and from her involvement in the project, including how her invisible disability shaped her unique charity dedicated to people with sight loss and/or chronic pain.
Learning to Give and Take the Lead, People Dancing Summer Intensive 2024. Photo: Mark Anderson.
Animated Issue: Winter 2025
Artistic Director, Sarah Archdeacon writes about Corali Dance Company’s 35-year journey and why what they do is imperative to the lives, progressions and professional careers of dancers with a learning disability.
Photo: Sean Goldthorp.
Animated Issue: Winter 2025
Louise Wildish, People Dancing’s outgoing Head of Inclusion introduces ‘Reflections’ and each author at the beginning of their articles.
Photo: Sean Goldthorpe.
Animated Issue: Winter 2025
11 Million Reasons to Dance is a photography exhibition and short film programme that was conceptualised and launched in 2015 through funding from Unlimited Impact and Arts Council England.
Caroline Plummer Fellow in Community Dance 2010, Suzanne Cowan Photo: Linda Robertson.
Animated Issue: Winter 2025
Professor Ralph Buck and Dr. Barbara Snook look back on two decades of a unique, supported opportunity for community dance artist scholars in New Zealand.
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Animated Issue: Summer 2024
This issue, we have been delighted and grateful to collaborate with dance researcher and educator, Dr Ruth Pethybridge, who brings you this collection of articles by five independent dance and interdsciplinary artists from around the globe, who place care for it at the heart of their practice.
Animated Issue: Winter 2002
Gaby Agis and Joe Moran offer a rare insight into the work of Joan Skinner and a system, which is fast becoming mainstream
Doodles and Daydreams. Photo: Brian Slater/Light Attitude.
Animated Issue: Summer 2024
Helen Linsell, Artistic Director of dance and social inclusion charity Dance United Yorkshire (DUY), shares her experience delivering an intergenerational dance project with one of Bradford’s most deprived and challenged communities. As Bradford approaches its Year of Culture in 2025, Helen highlights the learning DUY will take into one of its most ambitious and significant years to date.
Poppy Horwood & Joel Edwards, Frogs in Bogs, Eisteddfod Genedlaethol. Photo: Eisteddfod Genedlaethol
Animated Issue: Summer 2024
Angharad Harrop, an independent dance artist from Wales, introduces Wyth (Eight), an joyous initiative to simultaneously preserve Welsh folk dance tradition and innovate with it for the future re-igniting national pride in older generations and new.
Live Well and Dance with Parkinson’s North East Performance Collective. Photo: Alice Elizabeth Photo
Animated Issue: Summer 2024
Pagan Hunt Co Artistic Director Pelican Theatre, describes how on the bumpy road of post-graduation, an early career encounter with dance for people living with Parkinson’s led to discovery of people and places, values and commitment that helped establish both their teaching and their artistry.
Alexis Haines, Steph Sandy, Suzanne Cantwell Birkin, Off Balance Dance. Photo: Alexis Haines.
Animated Issue: Summer 2024
Independent Disabled Dance Artist/Consultant, Steph Sandy is based in the West Midlands region. One of the UK’s first physically disabled dance graduates. Here, she offers us compelling contemplation of the choices, chances and changes which have led to a fresh start mid-career as a community and creative dance professional.
©Gottlob/Hulme.
Animated Issue: Summer 2024
Improvisational movement artist, Stephanie Gottlob has followed a path begun in North America, exploring movement improvisations with nature, leading to England, where she designed her ecological dance pedagogy. The source of this journey is the co-creative relationship she experiences with landscape, which continues to inspire her current creative pedagogic activism and mission for embodying environmental ethics.
Jared Gradinger. Photo: Anna Guittierez.
Animated Issue: Summer 2024
In this article, culminating with a link to an exclusive access spoken, audio-mediation, Berlin-based interdisciplinary artist, Jared Gradinger, shares his journey into the deeply personal, transformative co-creative partnership with Nature he has been cultivating since 2012.
Performers; Jo Hellier, Nussatari, Into The Mountain 2019. Photo: Felicity Crawshaw.
Animated Issue: Summer 2024
For over twenty years, Simone Kenyon, intra-disciplinary artist, dancer, and Feldenkrais practitioner has developed a practice of expanded choreographies encompassing movement, ecology, cultural geographies and walking arts to create participatory events exploring our relationships with place. Here, she discusses finding ecological and embodied connection through mountain-place-relational performance making exploring our relationships with place.
Minou T. Polleros, Between Earth & Sky, 2012, Wiltshire, UK. Photo: Darren Jan Sutton.
Animated Issue: Summer 2024
Dancer, dance resercher and visual artist based in the South West of England, Minou Tsambika Polleros, offers the idea of dance as a galvising practice to help us take action in a climate crisis and introduces two global and one local eco-somatic practice networks, the International Forum for Eco-Embodied Arts (IFEEA), the Institute for the Study of Somatic Communication (ISSC) and Movement Network South West (MNSW).
Marília Coehlo, Reforest. Photo: Bruno Kuru.
Animated Issue: Summer 2024
Marília Coelho is a dance artist, choreographer and director based in Brazil who seeks, through dance, to articulate ancestral knowledge with a contemporary approach to life based on decolonisation. This is reflected for us in a journey she takes us on deep into the forest behind her home in Botucatu, São Paulo, where she also co-leads the activist and cultural space Mirante das Artes.
Ruth Pethybridge. Photo: Abbie Lynch.
Animated Issue: Summer 2024
Dance researcher and educator, Dr Ruth Pethybridge is a Trustee of People Dancing, a lecturer in Dance & Choreography at Falmouth University and on the The Place MA Dance: Communities Participation Activism. Here, she opens up the space of this special feature, introducing its themes and authors and invites us into a dynamic reflection on the state of dance, the world and their relationship to each other.
Eleesha and Participants, Dance Mama Film.
Animated Issue: Summer 2024
Lucy McCrudden, Founder/CEO, Dance Mama reflects on the position of parents in dance from her time in training through to the latest developments of the award-winning non-profit company founded to support dance professionals who are parents through activities, events mentoring and research.
Copyright Shreya Vadnerkar.
Animated Issue: Summer 2024
Join Shreya Vadnerkar, dance artist and Associate Director of Nupur Arts on a journey through it’s evolution: from humble beginnings as newcomers to the UK pioneering Bharatanatyam in the city of Leicester, to achieving recognition as an Arts Council England National Portfolio Organisation (NPO).
Sarah Covington, Sophie Holt, perFORM Open Rehearsal. Photo: Miranda Laurence.
Animated Issue: Summer 2024
CEO of Reside Dance C.I.C. and Ph.D. Candidate, Jennifer Christine Stokes invites us to question our response to current times in community dance as we accompany her through shifts in geography, career and thinking that led to an expansion and re-definition of ‘community’ in her practice.
Company of People. Photo: Drazen Priganica.
Animated Issue: Summer 2024
TC Howard, Independent Dance Artist, based in Sheffield, takes us along on her incredible journey with Yorkshire Dance’s inter-generational Company of People and considers how we create courageous and adventurous spaces for artists and communities.
Animated Issue: Summer 2023

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Animated Winter 2024 cover
Animated Issue: Winter 2024

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Animated Summer 2024 cover: Into The Mountain 2019. Image: Felicity Crawshaw.
Animated Issue: Summer 2024

Read and download the complete Summer 2024 digital edition of Animated magazine online in a flipbook.

Darcy Kitchener. Photo: Charlie Keen Media.
Animated Issue: Winter 2024
Creative Producer/Facilitator, Darcy Kitchener on a recent dance and digital art residency with young disabled people in Bedford, sharing its mission, methods and results – including deeper awareness about her own practice.
Sarima and Eloise in studio. Photo: Sarima Chukundah.
Animated Issue: Winter 2024
Kamara Gray, Artistic Director of Artistry Youth Dance, looks back on a decade of developing and empowering young dancers of African and Caribbean heritage. Here, on the page, as in the studio, she creates the space for self-expression as two company members, Eloise Badu and Sarima Chukundah, recount how the company propelled them to the world-renowned Ailey School’s Summer Intensive in New York, for a taste of the professional dance performance industry.
Stella Rousham, Dance Art Journal’s Residency, Siobhan Davies Studios, 2021. Photo: Sophie Chinner.
Animated Issue: Winter 2024
Creative Health and Community Dance practitioner, Stella Rousham calls urgently for the embedding of dance as a resource of care and shares her holistic approach to dance for health with groups at Trinity Laban and The Blair Academy.
Andrei Roman, Freewe. Photo: Marius Mates.
Animated Issue: Winter 2024
For Romanian-born, West Midlands-based hip hop dancer, teacher and event organiser, Andrei Roman Breakin’ opened up the world. Here, he interweaves his personal journey with background and insights into the dance form’s debut at the Paris 2024 Olympics.
Charlotte Arnold, Amal Nefi, Vicci Riley, Soundness of Heart. Photo: Dominic Erik Davies.
Animated Issue: Winter 2024
In a heartfelt blend of fact and feeling, Rachael Lines, Artistic Director of FRONTLINEdance lets us in on the struggles and satisfactions of over 21-years providing creativity, care, access and connection for their local and the national community of disabled dancers, makers and leaders.
Takeshi Matsumoto (TM) & Makiko Aoyama (MA), Club Origami, TM, MA & Robert Howat. Photo: Summer Dean
Animated Issue: Winter 2024
Here, the first UK Professor of Dance Education, Dr Angela Pickard from Sidney De Haan Research Centre for Arts and Health at Canterbury Christ Church University, discusses how the Mosaic approach provides a useful tool for developing and evaluating dance work with early years children as co-creators.
Photo: Rachel Cherry.
Animated Issue: Winter 2024
Taking a long and occasionally winding journey of development, via some unexpected bumps in the road, the new People Dancing Professional Qualifications were recently released into the world. Executive Director of Qualifications Anna Leatherdale and CEO Chris Stenton explain more about where the idea came from, how it all works and what the qualifications can offer the profession now and in the future.
Keira Martin (left) and Sioda Adams, Good Blood. Photo Joe Armitage.
Animated Issue: Winter 2024
Dancing with honesty and truth inside Gypsy, Roma and Traveller communities, Keira Martin, a most independent of dance artists, tell us like it is from a treasured position of trust among Gypsy, Roma and Traveller communities in Yorkshire in a conversation with Louise Katerega.
George Clement Peer. Photo: Jayne Devlin.
Animated Issue: Winter 2024
Jayne Devlin and Caroline Schanche, Co-Directors of Inner Ground Dance Company, based in Cornwall, invite us into a project where many mature movers met very contemporary practice.
Anthony Evans. Photo: Douglas Armour.
Animated Issue: Winter 2024
In this article, Anthony Evans, Co-Director of We Are Epic, describes the collaborative journey undertaken with Indonesian partners, Nalitari Dance Company in Jogja and Ballet ID in Jakarta, to reveal the rich tapestry of talent among the nation’s disabled dancers.
Bistro Fada choreographed by Sue Jack. Photo: Tracy Levy, © Margaret Morris Movement International.
Animated Issue: Winter 2024
As she reveals a powerful new report making the case for investing in dance and movement for all, Tracy Levy, former Chair of the Movement and Dance Division of the Sport and Recreation Alliance 2015-2021, talks the importance of translating the joy it brings to those involved into a language that speaks to the heart of government.
Dance Transport Workshop at Yorkshire Dance. Photo: Dani Bower.
Animated Issue: Winter 2024
Sara Dos Santos is a London-based artist, cultural producer and policy advisor passionate about raising the profile of underrepresented voices in the UK and beyond. Here, she contemplates the nature of professional and community dance alongside the results of a first foray into dance she led with Clean Break, an acclaimed women’s theatre company, who change minds and lives in performance, prison and the community.
EncoreEast, Home From Home. Photo: Roswitha Chesher.
Animated Issue: Winter 2024
Home From Home was a large-scale participatory project which led to a performance, In the End we Begin, directed by Protein’s Luca Silvestrini. Characterised by ambition, innovation and collaboration, it was produced by EncoreEast, a company of older dancers in the East of England and brought together three venues, six dance- makers and 50 performers aged 56 to 82. Jeanette Siddall CBE, a member of EncoreEast and one of the UK’s most respected dance leaders, offers us the joy and passion of her perspective as a participant.
Tommy Franzen, ZooNation The Kate Prince Company. Photo: Andrej Uspenski.
Animated Issue: Winter 2024
Where do you turn when the time comes for a career change within or beyond dance? For an ever-broadening demographic of British-based dance professionals across half a century, it has been to Dancers Career Development, the charity founded to ensure that, from training (and re-training) to retirement age, no-one need navigate that sometimes complex path alone. Vanessa Lefrançois, its incoming Executive Director, interweaves the voices of those it supports, shedding light on past, present and future.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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...
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.
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.
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.
Animated Issue: Winter 2023

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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.
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
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
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.
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
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
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
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...
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
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
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
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
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.
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
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
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
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)
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Animated Issue: Spring / Summer 2022

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Laura Jones, Stopgap Dance Company. Photo: Chris Parkes
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
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
Photo: Anton Califano  www.antoncalifano.com
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
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
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
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
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