This issue focuses on some of the different ways that dance artists are approaching health issues: a project that encompasses the wider health issues of participation in dance though a partnership between dance and the sports sector in East London; dance's contribution to a mental health project; and Protein Dance working in a hospital school. Finally we look at an ambitious international initiative of the Connect Team at Sadler's Wells, which worked with young people in the UK and Namibia looking at HIV and sex education.

We have also developed further our Professional Framework for Community Dance and this issue publish some current definitions of community dance, a set of core values for the profession and a code of professional conduct.These were identified during our original consultations with FCD members and the dance sector more generally as... Read more