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Our Events & Courses

If you have access requirements then we encourage you to book at least 2 weeks in advance of our events. Any bookings after that with access requirements, may not be fulfilled.

17 April 2024 - 22 May 2024

Weekly online class for people living with Parkinson's

Dates: 17, 24 April and 1, 8, 15, 22 May

Cost: Classes are £5.00 each or £27.00 for six sessions

These supportive, warm & welcoming sessions offer a place to meet others and engage in a fulfilling creative activity.

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04 May 2024

Hidden Histories: Animated – Black Dance Voices

This roundtable discussion will delve into all articles written by Black dance practitioners and published in Animated magazine. Pawlet Brookes MBE, (Serendipity) will be joined by panellists Louise Katerega (People Dancing), Rennaé Wilson (dancer and educator) and Sharon Watson (Northern School of Contemporary Dance).

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24 May 2024

Live Well & Dance with Parkinson's Symposium

The Live Well & Dance with Parkinson’s Symposium will be a day long celebration of the programme in all its complexities; the joy of people coming together through dance, whilst navigating the challenges of delivering a large-scale participatory dance project in the context of a world-wide pandemic.

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26 June 2024

Leadership in Action: Amplifying and advocating learning disabled dance leaders

People Dancing and Corali Dance Company are delighted to present this one day in person event for learning disabled dance leaders and their supporters. The day, a first of its kind, supports the coming together of learning disabled dancers and leaders in one space.

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07 July 2024 - 28 July 2024

People Dancing Summer Intensive 2024

Join us this July, online, on location and in our home city of Leicester, for one or more days of the People Dancing Summer Intensive 2004. This mix of inspiring courses with artists from the leading edge of community and participatory dance is a chance for you to learn, experiment and reflect with like-minded colleagues.

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17 April 2024 - 22 May 2024

Weekly online class for people living with Parkinson's

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11 April 2024

People Dancing Networks Together: Environment & Social Justice

What is the connection between social equity and climate action? How is it relevant to dancers and dance organisations? What positive action can we take?

This event will explore environment in the wider context of dance and our individual and collective responsibilities within our practice. Our Networks Together events seek to bring Network members into one space with a chance to explore a variety of topics. Each event will also host a Network specific session.

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08 April 2024

Contact with consent - online event recording

Contact with consent: Exploring autonomy for dancers with additional needs, including participants who are non-verbal and profoundly disabled or work with carers. Facilitated by Sali Gresham, delivered in partnership with Sense charity. This is a recording of a previous online event.

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01 February 2024

Student online gathering: Meet People Dancing!

Ideal for: Any student year group welcome

Join us to start the new year off with our student online gathering. Find out all about us and meet acclaimed choreographer Luca Silvestrini!

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13 January 2024

Live Well & Dance with Parkinson's: Artist Sharing Day

Join us at the University of Salford for a day of peer support, practice sharing and exploration with the Live Well and Dance with Parkinson's team in Manchester.

There will be a practical session led by Dr Mel Brierley, dance/movement artist & researcher in community health, followed by a networking lunch and group discussion time.

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12 December 2023

Next EYDN (Early Years Dance Network) event: In-person gathering in partnership with Déda, Derby

Join us for our next Early Years Dance Network event held in partnership with Déda, Derby. This three-hour in-person event is led by Louise Wildish - Head of Inclusion, Liz Clark - Associate Artist for Early Years and Kath Kimber-McTiffen from Sonrisa Arts and includes a two hour practical workshop.

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05 October 2023

People Dancing Networks Together: Exploring Activism

Join us on Thursday 5 October 2023 online, for our second Networks Together Event exploring the theme of activism.

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26 July 2023 - 27 July 2023

People Dancing Summer Intensive 2023

Join us again in the beautiful, accessible, PACE Building, De Montfort University, in our home city of Leicester for two cost-conscious days to inspire your practice for years to come.

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19 June 2023 - 23 June 2023

CALL OUT! Manchester Dance Teaching Artists Gathering

Online: Mon 19 or in-person: Fri 23 June
Are you someone interested in or already working in socially engaged dance practice? Live Well and Dance with Parkinson’s are hosting two artist gatherings.

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08 June 2023

People Dancing Networks Day: Practitioner Wellbeing

Join us for our first ever joint Networks Day - a day for artists, practitioners and organisations who are already a part of our thriving Networks, to come together in one virtual interactive space.

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29 March 2023 - 30 March 2023

Our Dance Democracy 3

Our Dance Democracy conference returns as artists and academics meet live and online. Karen Gallagher MBE, Karen Gallagher and Associates( KGA)and Dr. Sarah Black-Frizell (Liverpool Hope University) present Our Dance Democracy 3: Courageous Conversations Positively Democratising Narratives

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28 March 2023

Exploring Textures in Dance for Early Years: a practical movement session

Join us for an hour of practical embodied movement play and creativity with Kath Kimber-McTiffen.

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28 March 2023

REACH! Networking Event: Networking the networks

Inspired by Japan’s Spring Cherry Blossom festival People Dancing brings together some of the global majority heritage dance networks that bloomed during lockdown.

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Workshop

28 February 2023

Contact with consent: Exploring autonomy for dancers with additional needs

How do we know as artists and practitioners that we have consent to contact an individual that we work with? Examining the necessity and purpose of contact, we will share considerations and approaches for remaining mindful of personal boundaries and permissions.

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Workshop

13 December 2022

Live Well & Dance with Parkinson's Network LAUNCH!

The Live Well & Dance with Parkinson’s Network is a long-term project that will produce, share and develop activity carefully curated around your voice.

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Workshop

28 November 2022

Next EYDN (Early Years Dance Network) event: Professional Love and it’s impact on early years dance

With Dr Jools Page, Senior Early Years Academic, University of Brighton

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Workshop

19 November 2022

In-person event: Discovering Your Soft Skills

University of Roehampton, London Facilitators: Monica Gillette and Prof. Sara Houston

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Workshop

15 November 2022

Perspectives on Practice Event: Access to Work

Access to Work is a resource that helps to create a more accessible work environment. It provides grants to remove barriers that disabled people face in undertaking paid employment.

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Seminar / Talk / Lecture

09 November 2022

Perspectives on Practice Event: An introduction to Soft Skills in Dance: a Guidebook to Enhance your Practice

Presented in association with Roehampton University Online via Zoom Free to attend, booking essential

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Workshop

27 October 2022

How to plan for the future: Informal business planning for independent dance artists

This online session, led by Christina Poulton, offers dedicated time to focus on your work, what you want to do and planning for making it happen.

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Workshop

05 October 2022

How do we bring our full selves into our practice?

Susanna Dye (they/them, she/her) is a queer, neurodivergent artist working at the intersection of dance, physical theatre, live and visual art.

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Workshop

08 September 2022

Next EYDN (Early Years Dance Network) meeting: Participation in Early Years performance - Part Two

A discussion with Rosie Heafford from Second Hand Dance and People Dancing Associate Artist Liz Clark.

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26 July 2022 - 28 July 2022

People Dancing in the Summer 2022

A unique professional development opportunity for dance artists and practitioners, offering a diverse programme of pathways and short courses led by outstanding artists and teachers, designed to refresh and reignite.

This three-day event offered practical courses providing learning and skills development, connection with peers and time for reflection. There was also optional morning classes, evening online panel sessions, lunchtime performances, and opportunities to network - all designed to enrich the experience.

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Workshop

23 June 2022

Working with displaced communities

People Dancing and Luca Silvestrini’s Protein present an online practical workshop to enhance dance artists’ confidence and skill set when inviting refugee communities to take part in dance projects. The session will offer advice for producing and making.?

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Surgery

23 June 2022

Understanding Funders and what they want – for freelance dance artists

This online practical, engaging workshop, led by Christina Poulton, is for those who are new to writing bids or who want to build their confidence and develop their skills. Packed full of live examples and activities to put it into action, with lots of opportunities for asking questions.

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Workshop

16 June 2022

Taking (bank) notes: Pay parity for arts and cultural workers

In this online session, The Uncultured (Ashleigh Bowmott and Laura Sweeney) will share provocations and useful information on how we could shift the balance of pay disparity between freelance and salaried workers, and how we can all ask for things that might improve our working conditions.

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24 May 2022

REACH! Network launch event

More from Louise Katerega about the event: “I am looking forward to hosting our first event which, after 18 months and many adventures already in Voice and Presence, is a time to celebrate by sharing them with stakeholders it its future.

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Peer Group / Network

26 January 2022

Introduction to tax for Freelancers

Join Jane Webster for this intro into tax basics for those just starting out as freelancers in the dance sector! The session will cover topics such as HMRC registration, tax payment deadlines, keeping records, claiming business expenses, contracts, employment rights and responsibilities, pensions and more.

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Workshop

25 January 2022

Perspectives on Practice: The importance of touch in dance and art-making

Dina Robinson will lead participants in a tactile workshop and discussion exploring isolated modes of touch and how its inter-subjectivity impacts our relation to making art. This workshop will examine a variety of tactile scores and experiences in relation to creative engagement, composition and the development of artistic identity. This involves working as individuals and investigating how to be ‘in touch’ at a distance. A short dance film will also be shown.

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Workshop

25 January 2022

Perspectives on Practice: The importance of touch in dance and art-making

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Workshop

18 January 2022

Perspectives on Practice: Older people dancing - moving beyond perceptions

Dance Artists Karla Jones and Anne Sheldon will lead a selection of movement creation from the Moving Beyond Perceptions* exhibition in which they challenge the public’s perception of older people dancing through movement and photography using the local environment.

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Workshop

12 January 2022

Tree Time

An invitation to give yourself time to experience your relationship with trees in a new way, guided by a written score.

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Workshop

11 January 2022

Perspectives on Practice: The impact of recreational dance on adolescent girls

In this session with People Dancing board member Louise Marshall, we will be exploring how we teach in the dance class, with the focus being on adolescent girls participating in recreational dance. What messages are girls learning either overtly or unspoken?

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Peer Group / Network

14 December 2021

Next EYDN (Early Years Dance Network) meeting: An opportunity for dance artists and practitioners working in Early Years settings to meet and connect

It’s been an extraordinary year for the dance sector and early years artists, with many challenges and joys along the way. Join us for an end of year virtual mince pie in this informal networking session to share learning, and support with planning for the Early Years Dance Network into 2022.

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Workshop

09 December 2021

Perspectives on Practice: Dancing for well-being: circle dancing with older people

In this practical and discussion-based session, Nicola Forshaw will share some of the choreographed dances she has developed for her work with Dancing for Well-Being, a Community Interest Company that focuses on connecting older people through dance. Using the foundations and ethos of Circle Dancing, these dances are fun, easy to follow and suitable for all levels of mobility.

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Peer Group / Network

07 December 2021

11 Million Reasons To Dance Network event

In this 11 Million Reasons to Dance (11MRTD) Network event, artist Krystal Lowe will lead a discussion on intersectionality within the dance sector. Speaking from lived experience, Krystal will share how intersectionality informs and shapes her practice, followed by the opening up of a discussion on how we can better support diversity and positive change and alliance for global majority dance artists who identify as disabled.

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Workshop

25 November 2021

Perspectives on Practice: Dance as resisting, reclaiming and reimagining the future

Dance as resisting, reimagining and reclaiming the future’ is a workshop for community practitioners, movement makers, theatre makers, live artists, and writers wanting to explore how we can use movement as a foundational force for reimagining, recreating, and reworking a future that supports and gives space to new possibilities. Through movement scores, creative writing, discussion and collective will, we will create new and possible futures for our communities and ourselves.

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Workshop

16 November 2021

Perspectives on Practice: Unleash your inner Swashbuckler!

The relationship between dance and combat dates back thousands of years and now is your chance to come and discover just how these two ancient artforms are linked and how this link is still just as important to dance practice today as it was when the Spartans faced the Persians at the hot gates at Thermopylae.

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Workshop

11 November 2021

Perspectives on Practice: The future is blended

Award-winning arts and technology collective MakeAmplify invite you to discuss the future of hybrid digital and live work in the face of climate change and the pandemic.

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Workshop

09 November 2021

Perspectives on Practice: An artist's transition to board

Are you an artist who has thought about being on a board of trustees? Are you aware of the career benefits of being on a board? Do you want your voice heard?

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Workshop

05 November 2021

Perspectives on Practice: online adventures in dancing with Parkinson’s

For artists and practitioners working in the field of dancing with Parkinson's to share ideas, challenges and opportunities

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04 November 2021

Perspectives on Practice: An introduction to Makaton for dance

Dance artist and Makaton Tutor Emma Jones will lead this session which will upskill practitioners by teaching dance-specific Makaton knowledge and vocabulary. Makaton is a language programme that uses a combination of speech, non-verbal signs and symbols to communicate. Makaton passes on meaning by adding visual cues while speaking to help clarify the meaning of the words.

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Workshop

20 October 2021

Perspectives on Practice: Open sesame – what does it mean to be accessible? 

This session encourages discussion around?making work truly accessible?for all needs – is this notion a pipe dream? What steps can we honestly take? How can we properly articulate what we can offer? How?can facilitators with no accessibility needs overcome their personal sensitivities and concerns about 'getting it right'?

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Technique Class

19 October 2021

Perspectives on Practice: Object-Movement improvisation jam

Object-Movement is an online practical improvisation jam that explores contemporary dance alongside classical music instruments.

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Workshop

08 October 2021

Perspectives on Practice: Less is More

Join Anna Daly, Vicky Frayard and Anne O’Connor in this session which shares deep and reflective learning from their wide breadth of experience of working with young children and babies, based on their Baby & Me workshops. Baby & Me was an online project in Spring 2021 and focused on families who had babies in lockdown.

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Workshop

06 October 2021

Perspectives on Practice: online adventures in dancing with Parkinson’s

For artists and practitioners working in the field of dancing with Parkinson's to share ideas, challenges and opportunities

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Workshop

23 September 2021

Perspectives on Practice: Dance for chronic breathlessness

In this practical workshop, participants will learn about how we breathe, why we get breathless and how dance can help people living with long term breathlessness to feel better and do more.

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Peer Group / Network

16 September 2021

11 Million Reasons To Dance Network Event

Our next 11 Million Reasons to Dance Network Event will be a longer event for artists, individuals and organisations who aim to embed inclusivity at the heart of their work. Planned as part of the Arts Council Wales funded 11 Million Reasons to Dance: Cymru project to celebrate its culmination, and originally to be hosted in rural Wales, this now online event will have a Welsh theme, yet is still relevant to those working across the UK.

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Workshop

14 September 2021

Perspectives on Practice: Women dancing with women - reflecting on practice in specific contexts

In this event Louise Klarnett and Emily Jenkins will together reflect on their participatory work with women, particularly referring to The Magpie Project (for mums and under 5s in temporary accommodation) and Move Dance Feel (for women living with and beyond cancer).

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Workshop

09 September 2021

Next EYDN (Early Years Dance Network) meeting: An opportunity for dance artists and practitioners working in Early Years settings to meet and connect

The next EYDN meeting will focus on us emerging out of the pandemic and for some back into communities, nurseries and settings. How do we best ensure our own recovery and rejuvenation, and yet support our early years children?

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