Dancing with people with profound and multiple learning disabilities (PMLD)

Cheshire Dance is delighted to be working with People Dancing in the development of the Wanna Dance? Programme and the Dance and PMLD Practice Sharing Network:

Wanna Dance? explores dance as a sensory, non-verbal language prioritising one to one dancing with people with profound and multiple learning disabilities (PMLD) through artist-in-residency programmes, creative projects and training.

Over the past five years Dance Artist Ruth Spencer and Cheshire Dance Creative Director Jane McLean have been co-creating one-to-one dancing experiences with people with PMLD through ‘Dance Artist-in-Residency’ Programmes in adult day centres in Cheshire West. Through these residencies Wanna Dance? supports individuals to take the lead, valuing their lived experiences of dance/movement.

The residencies ask the question, ‘if people with profound intellectual and multiple disabilities would like to dance, and if so, how that dance might be?’ and seek to give individuals with the most complex needs opportunity to engage in dance experiences that are personal to them and meet their unique needs.

To find out more about Wanna Dance? Residencies and other creative projects visit: pmld-dance.org/projects-1

Dance and PMLD Practice Sharing Network:

Cheshire Dance facilitate a Dance and PMLD Practice Sharing Network. The network led by artists for artists, brings together practitioners and professionals from across the UK and internationally who are working with, or interested in working with, people with PMLD to share approaches, knowledge and resources. Together we explore, question, develop and inspire our practice - and each other - to ensure all people with PMLD can have opportunities to experience dance.

To find out more and join the network visit: pmld-dance.org/network

Visit our website: pmld-dance.org