We have been considering for some time how to make Animated more user friendly whilst maintaining its challenging edge. This issue, we hope, is a positive step on that pathway. The Foundation for Community Dance believes that Animated should fulfil a number of roles: profiling the diversity of dance happening in community settings, the diversity ofthe people taking part and the wider issues with which our work connects.

However, we see it primarily as a conduit between practitioners and their developing practice - celebrating the best of work happening across the UK and beyond, promoting the sharing of ideas, offering opportunities to learn from each other's experience, challenging our preconceptions and profiling initiatives that shift the boundaries of what the work might be. Most importantly we seek to celebrate the diverse practice of community dance placing the individual drives, passions and voices of practitioners at the heart of... Read more