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.

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…

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.

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.

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.

Animated Spring/Summer 2026

It is a pleasure and honour to introduce this edition of Animated, in our 40th Anniversary year. We are thrilled to bring you an incredible line up of writers, spanning all kinds of contexts and practices.

People Dancing has developed qualifications which enable dancers, teaching artists and community practitioners working in participatory settings to evidence their skills and knowledge.

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.

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.

Dancer Eve Walker reflects upon her placement with the Live Well & Dance with Parkinson's performance group and how it solidified her work priorities and showed her the real power dance can hold and the impact it can have on individuals’ lives.

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.