By the time you are reading this issue of Animated we will have held the official launch of Making a Move: a strategy for the development of a professional framework for community dance. Making a Move is a fundamental gearshift for the Foundation for Community Dance and will, if we succeed, have significant impacts and benefits for artists, practitioners and their employers.

We asked people in a variety of roles - artists andpractitioners, managers, employers and providers of continuing professional development opportunities - to respond to the Strategy from their individual perspective. Tom Bewick, the Chief Executive of Creative & Cultural Skills, the Sector Skills Council for the creative and cultural industries, has kindly written an overview to place Making a Move in a wider context.

All of the contributors have acknowledged the challenges of bringing this... Read more