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People Dancing’s creative work is focused on a clear, dynamic approach to innovation and creative learning. Setting out different approaches to different areas of participatory dance, presents People Dancing’s work and priorities to audiences and stakeholders in distinct and relevant ways.

Producing, Co-creation & Inclusion in Performance for Children
Rosie Heafford by Paula Deegan
Are you a dancer and facilitator who wants to make your work more inclusive for neurodivergent and disabled children? Join Rosie Heafford, Second Hand Dance on Wed 22 July at People Dancing's Summer Programme!
Let Them Disrupt: Children as Co-Creators
Rosie Heafford, Co-Director of Second Hand Dance reflects on the emergence of the co-creative practice she will share on our Summer Workshop Programme - an iterative, disability-affirming methodology that values embodiment and makes performance more accessible and inclusive.
National Youth Ballet workshop: Tue 21 July
 NYB All In! Company in class. Photo: Jules Renahan.
NYB All In! Introduction to Accessible Ballet Practices - find creative new ways to include disabled and neurodivergent dancers. Widen your skills and introduce ballet to a group for the first time.
Caring Cultures in Dance workshop: Wed 22 July
DCD’s EVOLVE London career development workshop, March 2025. Photographer: Becky Lee Brun.
In the rush of everyday life, wellbeing is often the first thing we put on hold. Delivered by Dancers' Career Development & One Dance UK, these inspirational speakers will help you unlock the potential for greater care of self and others.
Dance and health practice
For 10 years Move Dance Feel has been supporting women affected by cancer through dance. Founded by Emily Jenkins, it is a unique, female-led community, helping women feel more at home in their bodies, less alone in their experiences and better equipped to navigate the challenges that cancer brings…
Best of Both Worlds: Facilitator To Artist and Back Again
Lildonia Lawrence, a movement practitioner, wellbeing coach and diversity specialist based in Bristol, reflects on inner transformation, co-creation and decolonisation over the course of Movema’s Wildfire Rising development programme for artists of the Global Majority.
Become a Friend of People Dancing
Safer Community Dance Practice: Thu 23 July
SideKick Dance, inclusive dance based at Ellesmere College and Curve Theatre, Leicester. Photo: Fusi
Safety is not an optional addition to dance leadership, but a core professional responsibility. Develop the confidence to integrate this into your practice. This one-day workshop, with Charlotte Tomlinson, provides essential training for dance practitioners.
A gift returned
After a long career as a writer and broadcaster, Frances Byrnes re-kindled her love of dancing after 40-year break and embarked on an unexpected journey of new adventures in practice and performance across the North of England. Here she lets us in on some complex and deeply personal feelings involved in coming back to dance.
Look How Far We've Come
Ashley Jordan, Company Director of Ascension Dance in Coventry offers a very personal reflection on the transformative power of youth dance experiences and celebrates Pinnacle Dance Platform 2025, an event created by Ascension to give young people a space to grow, connect, and express themselves through movement.
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.
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.