Summer Intensive 2024: Dance, health and wellbeing

This eclectic 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.

There are ten courses to choose from, taking place virtually and in person. All of the courses are:

• Suitable for all career stages - often encouraging an effective blend of them for mutual learning and co-mentorship - for students, teachers and leaders of community and participatory dance and other performing arts specialists with an interest in the field

• Focused time to fill up on inspiration for the year to come by deepening your current practice or exploring new avenues

• Cost-conscious with fee reductions for Members of People Dancing

• A chance to network with peers as passionate as you from near and far, the welcoming People Dancing team and a general emphasis on respite, refreshment, and the joy of together!

Join Danielle Jones, Artistic Director of Luminelle, for a one-day course which enables participants to gain a clear overview of theory and practice in the context of Dance, Health & Wellbeing in participatory dance settings. This course will explore the context of dance for health and wellbeing and the shifts in inclusive practice.

Danielle is an industry leading artist, director, and researcher whose work is driven by people and their stories, offering a chance for ordinary human life to be given value and everyday people to be seen.

By attending this course you will:

• Discuss the term of 'dance in health and wellbeing', and the impact of the last five years of policy and practice as it has affected holistic or socially engaged dance
• Explore how you are influenced by approaches to defining dance in health and wellbeing terms, and how this has influenced your sense of autonomy
• Consider perspectives on diversity and inclusion, the positive benefits of evidence-based practice, the need to retain authenticity in artistic voice and values, and how we can draw from all this learning for the benefit of individual approaches.

This one-day course is ideal for both early career artists and more experienced artists considering developing a specialism in this area of work.

Above image credit: People Dancing Summer School. Photo: Rachel Cherry.

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