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Wintry reflection Dance artist, Gill Clarke, waxes poetic about creative away time read more Issue: Spring 2010 Date Posted: 09 Apr 2010

Happy 21st, Corali! Georgina Cockburn marks the coming of age of a company - and a sector read more Issue: Spring 2010 Date Posted: 09 Apr 2010

Another dancing nation Cecilia Macfarlane ventures into dance in the community in Japan read more Issue: Spring 2010 Date Posted: 09 Apr 2010

Ignition on Louise Portlock, Inclusion Manager at Gloucestershire Dance, is fired up about widening professional opportunities within the dance and disability sector read more Issue: Spring 2010 Date Posted: 09 Apr 2010

Thinking big Big Dance's Jacqueline Rose, and FCD's Chris Stenton tell us about all the exciting developments with Big Dance read more Issue: Spring 2010 Date Posted: 09 Apr 2010

The best-laid plans Free-lance arts consultant Jo Buffery shares her tips for dance projects in health settings read more Issue: Spring 2010 Date Posted: 09 Apr 2010

Letter Kate Scanlan responds to Sunanda Biswas's article on women in Hip Hop, Animated Winter 2010 read more Issue: Spring 2010 Date Posted: 09 Apr 2010

Stepping out east Jih-Wen Yeh, artistic director of Step Out Arts, explains what motivated the creation of a new showcase for British East Asian artists read more Issue: Spring 2010 Date Posted: 09 Apr 2010

Uncommon perspectives Rosemary Lee's Common Dance is experienced from three contrasting viewpoints read more Issue: Spring 2010 Date Posted: 09 Apr 2010

Raising standards FCD's Lisa Craddock outlines a new strategy for professional standards read more Issue: Spring 2010 Date Posted: 09 Apr 2010

Artist Bank: Not just kids' stuff Rachel Attfield and Katherine Duhigg ask how can a creative project with primary school children impact on artists' professional practice? read more Issue: Spring 2010 Date Posted: 09 Apr 2010

RAUW dance Retina's producer, Natalie Gordon, and its artistic director, Filip Van Huffel, find that site-specific performances bring rewards and responsibilities read more Issue: Spring 2010 Date Posted: 09 Apr 2010

Letter Susie Kelly responds to Rachel Elliott's article on English folk dance, Animated Winter 2010 read more Issue: Spring 2010 Date Posted: 09 Apr 2010

Editor's critical faculties Guest editor Donald Hutera gets to grips with multifarious manifestations of group dance read more Issue: Spring 2010 Date Posted: 09 Apr 2010

Model city Helen Cundy describes the challenges and delights of managing an international collaboration between French artists and the Woking community read more Issue: Spring 2010 Date Posted: 09 Apr 2010

Improvising on the ward Lisa Dowler of the Small Things Collective describes how deeply children in hospital show her the way read more Issue: Winter 2010 Date Posted: 04 Jan 2010

Positive altitude Free-lance dance artist Jess Allen offers her view on hidden disabilities and aerial dance in inclusive performance practice read more Issue: Winter 2010 Date Posted: 04 Jan 2010

Close your eyes and... dance Adriana Pegorer explains how and why tangoing with visually impaired people enriches her practice and research read more Issue: Winter 2010 Date Posted: 04 Jan 2010

Boys to men Choreographer Beth Cassani looks at the motives for - and joys of - creating a dance with her sons read more Issue: Winter 2010 Date Posted: 18 Dec 2009

Nothing to do with us? Carolyn Lappin, executive director of YDance (Scottish Youth Dance), advises practitioners nation-wide to take heed of 2012 and beyond read more Issue: Winter 2010 Date Posted: 18 Dec 2009

Rhythm in the isles Performer Jackie Wilford experiences paradise teaching flamenco in the Seychelles read more Issue: Winter 2010 Date Posted: 18 Dec 2009

Activists in the community Rachel Elliott explores the rich past and thriving present of England's folk dance scene read more Issue: Winter 2010 Date Posted: 18 Dec 2009

Just what the doctor ordered? Kate Gant and Mark Webster examine how health targets and documentation can boost the case for arts work read more Issue: Winter 2010 Date Posted: 18 Dec 2009

Breakin' it down British bgirl SunSun, aka Sunanda Biswas, reveals why young women in hip-hop deserve and want to sustain their own festival read more Issue: Winter 2010 Date Posted: 18 Dec 2009

My Dance-Africa adventure Freelance dance practitioner Roni Cheesman retraces some of her steps as an ADAD Trailblazer read more Issue: Winter 2010 Date Posted: 18 Dec 2009

Not quite right? Jo Verrent hails the changes that are possible when three dance artists join forces in Scotland read more Issue: Winter 2010 Date Posted: 18 Dec 2009

Editor's critical faculties Globe-trotting guest editor Donald Hutera scans this female-dominated issue of Animated before delving into Asia read more Issue: Winter 2010 Date Posted: 17 Dec 2009

Paths of glory The Rt. Hon Margaret Hodge MBE MP, Minister for Culture, Creative Industries and Tourism, praises the achievements of Find Your Talent read more Issue: Winter 2010 Date Posted: 17 Dec 2009

A question of practice Independent dance artist Niki Pollard wonders how community dance artists experience - and use - the practices of their peers read more Issue: Winter 2010 Date Posted: 17 Dec 2009

From the editor Ken Bartlett, Director, Foundation for Community Dance read more Issue: Winter 2003 Date Posted: 30 Oct 2009

From the editor Ken Bartlett, Director, Foundation for Community Dance read more Issue: Spring 2003 Date Posted: 30 Oct 2009

From the editor Ken Bartlett, Director, Foundation for Community Dance read more Issue: Summer 2003 Date Posted: 30 Oct 2009

From the editor Donald Hutera, guest editor read more Issue: Autumn 2003 Date Posted: 30 Oct 2009

From the editor Ken Bartlett, Director, Foundation for Community Dance read more Issue: Summer 2004 Date Posted: 29 Oct 2009

From the editor Ken Bartlett, Creative Director, Foundation for Community Dance read more Issue: Autumn 2004 Date Posted: 26 Oct 2009

From the editor Ken Bartlett, Creative Director, Foundation for Community Dance read more Issue: Winter 2004 Date Posted: 26 Oct 2009

From the editor Guest editor Donald Hutera read more Issue: Summer 2005 Date Posted: 19 Oct 2009

From the editor Chris Stenton, Development Director, Foundation for Community Dance read more Issue: Autumn 2005 Date Posted: 19 Oct 2009

From the editor Ken Bartlett, Creative Director, Foundation for Community Dance read more Issue: Spring 2005 Date Posted: 15 Oct 2009

From the editor Ken Bartlett, Creative Director, Foundation for Community Dance read more Issue: Winter 2005 Date Posted: 15 Oct 2009

From the editor Ken Bartlett, Creative Director, Foundation for Community Dance read more Issue: Autumn 2006 Date Posted: 13 Oct 2009

Dancing in Time: two perspectives Patrick Kelly and Wendy Houstoun leap outside their comfort zones during the making of an intergenerational commission read more Issue: Autumn 2009 Date Posted: 29 Sep 2009

Need to know Pauline Gladstone examines the wants and needs of artists that work with challenging groups, and are hungry for knowledge and guidance read more Issue: Autumn 2009 Date Posted: 29 Sep 2009

Group solo Robin Dingemans explains the creation process of Not What I Had in Mind, a probing and playful community dance piece - minus the community! read more Issue: Autumn 2009 Date Posted: 29 Sep 2009

Mark of excellence Roger Farrell on how Anjali carries its commitment to the creativity of people with learning disabilities to the next level read more Issue: Autumn 2009 Date Posted: 29 Sep 2009

Dancing the unfamiliar Independent artist Doran George engages in blissfully 'crap' movement dialogues with families at Los Angeles County Museum of Art read more Issue: Autumn 2009 Date Posted: 28 Sep 2009

Editor's critical faculties Guest editor and self-styled honorary Welshman Donald Hutera guides you through this issue of Animated read more Issue: Autumn 2009 Date Posted: 28 Sep 2009

Expanding the territory Beverley Glean, Rosie Lehan and Judith Palmer of IRIE! dance theatre hit the APD training trail read more Issue: Autumn 2009 Date Posted: 28 Sep 2009

Greetings from Berlin! Jo Parkes of MobileDance describes a unique dance film project that brought a youthful slant to a great city read more Issue: Autumn 2009 Date Posted: 28 Sep 2009

The fame game Fiona Ross describes what happens when the Company of Elders, a modest (and lovely) dance company receives national media exposure read more Issue: Autumn 2009 Date Posted: 28 Sep 2009

Flying the flag for Wales Dance plays a significant role in the Cultural Olympiad in Wales, says Gwyn L Williams, Creative Programmer for London 2012 in Wales read more Issue: Autumn 2009 Date Posted: 28 Sep 2009

A light switched on Inspired by a startling duet, Janice Parker reflects on the dance and disability movement in Scotland read more Issue: Autumn 2009 Date Posted: 28 Sep 2009

From the editor Ken Bartlett, Director, Foundation for Community Dance read more Issue: Winter 2006 Date Posted: 14 Sep 2009

From the editor Ken Bartlett, Creative Director, Foundation for Community Dance read more Issue: Summer 2006 Date Posted: 19 Aug 2009

From the editor Ken Bartlett, Creative Director, Foundation for Community Dance read more Issue: Winter 2007 Date Posted: 18 Aug 2009

From the editor Ken Bartlett, Creative Director, Foundation for Community Dance read more Issue: Summer 2007 Date Posted: 17 Aug 2009

From the editor Ken Bartlett, Creative Director, Foundation for Community Dance read more Issue: Spring 2007 Date Posted: 17 Aug 2009

Going home happy... is that all there is to it? Ruth Spencer, independent dance artist read more Issue: Autumn 2007 Date Posted: 24 Jul 2009

From the editor Ken Bartlett, Creative Director, Foundation for Community Dance read more Issue: Autumn 2007 Date Posted: 17 Jul 2009

From the editor Ken Bartlett, Creative Director, Foundation for Community Dance read more Issue: Spring 2008 Date Posted: 08 Jul 2009

Critical faculties His Excellency Donald Hutera gets to grips with the McMaster Report. The result? Awesome, of course! read more Issue: Spring 2008 Date Posted: 08 Jul 2009

A new stage for young people's dance in England The Rt. Hon Margaret Hodge MBE MP, Minister for Culture, Creative Industries & Tourism read more Issue: Spring 2008 Date Posted: 08 Jul 2009

Excellence in community dance: a response to the McMaster report by Kate Castle Director of Dance South West read more Issue: Spring 2008 Date Posted: 08 Jul 2009

Excellence, Fineness, Brilliance, Distinction, Merit, Superiority, Class, Eminence, Value, Worth Scottish Independent dance artist Janice Parker on the importance of placing the art form at the centre of the quality experience read more Issue: Spring 2008 Date Posted: 08 Jul 2009

Getting used to talking about excellence Wieke Eringa on the excellence of process in community dance read more Issue: Spring 2008 Date Posted: 08 Jul 2009

African people's dance: an excellent future? Akosua Boakye-Nimo on her ambitions for the development of quality and excellence in African People's dance read more Issue: Spring 2008 Date Posted: 08 Jul 2009

You know it when you see it! Sue Davies offers a local authority perspective on the importance of quality read more Issue: Spring 2008 Date Posted: 08 Jul 2009

Striving for the best with young people at risk Judy Munday on the importance of working with quality dance artists to bring out the best in young people at risk read more Issue: Spring 2008 Date Posted: 08 Jul 2009

Standards... Safonau... Quality... Ansawdd... Excellence... Rhagoriaeth... Transformation... Trawsffurfiad... Jên Angharad looks at quality in the context of community dance in Wales read more Issue: Spring 2008 Date Posted: 08 Jul 2009

Takadimi takajono tum tum tum Sarra Whicheloe examines issues of quality in delivering South Asian dance read more Issue: Spring 2008 Date Posted: 08 Jul 2009

Holding the conch Sue Akroyd, Diane Amans, Jacqueline McCormick and Ruth Spencer report on their research into creative leadership read more Issue: Spring 2008 Date Posted: 08 Jul 2009

"We are all dancers": dance and Parkinson's Disease Amanda Fogg on the Mark Morris Dance Group's work with the Brooklyn Parkinson Group read more Issue: Spring 2008 Date Posted: 08 Jul 2009

Industrial strength partnership Donald Hutera on a developing dance partnership between industrial south Wales and Silesia in Poland read more Issue: Spring 2008 Date Posted: 08 Jul 2009

Critical faculties In which Donald Hutera loses a job but, ideally, gains some insights into the notion of a career read more Issue: Autumn 2008 Date Posted: 08 Jul 2009

Lighting the touchpaper Kiki Gale, Artistic Director of East London Dance on the importance of asking questions read more Issue: Autumn 2008 Date Posted: 08 Jul 2009

Reflections and ponderings Alysoun Tomkins on the current landscape of community dance read more Issue: Autumn 2008 Date Posted: 08 Jul 2009

Sustaining a lifelong career in dance Kally Lloyd-Jones reflects on the 'self esteem' that guides her journey as an artist read more Issue: Autumn 2008 Date Posted: 08 Jul 2009

A large dose of faith Jim Brown, Senior Education & Access Officer at Swindon Dance considers his career in the 'people dancing' business. read more Issue: Autumn 2008 Date Posted: 08 Jul 2009

Marriage on the rocks? Carol Brown, Artistic Director of TAN Dance, on keeping her 'love affair' with community dance alive read more Issue: Autumn 2008 Date Posted: 08 Jul 2009

From Calabash to cultural leadership Judith Palmer at IRIE! Dance Theatre, on becoming a leader in African Peoples' Dance read more Issue: Autumn 2008 Date Posted: 08 Jul 2009

A career not a job... Independent dance artist Ruth Spencer on balancing a career with a family life read more Issue: Autumn 2008 Date Posted: 08 Jul 2009

Old age is a stage Hannah Lefeuvre, Time To Move Co-ordinator at Take Art, goes back for her future read more Issue: Autumn 2008 Date Posted: 08 Jul 2009

Un abrazo sin tiempo (an embrace beyond time) Ruth Pethybridge travelled to the roots of the Tango and found an inspiring source for well-being in an unlikely place read more Issue: Autumn 2008 Date Posted: 08 Jul 2009

Making a Move takes a stride forward Ken Bartlett and Chris Stenton describe the Foundation for Community Dance's latest thinking and plans for the development of the professional framework read more Issue: Autumn 2008 Date Posted: 08 Jul 2009

Primary Bank Rachel Attfield at Siobhan Davies Dance relates the journey of an artist's practice with a neighbouring Primary School read more Issue: Autumn 2008 Date Posted: 08 Jul 2009

From the editor Ken Bartlett, Creative Director, Foundation for Community Dance read more Issue: Winter 2009 Date Posted: 08 Jul 2009

Critical faculties Donald Hutera gets up off his bum and ventures into the wonderful world of site-specific performance read more Issue: Winter 2008 Date Posted: 07 Jul 2009

Developing a regional infrastructure for dance and health Dance4's Learning Manager Vanessa McGuire outlines the work being undertaken in the East Midlands to place dance firmly on the health agenda read more Issue: Winter 2008 Date Posted: 07 Jul 2009

Walking a tightrope Take Art's Dance Director Chris Fogg explains how partnerships have helped make Take Art more sustainable read more Issue: Winter 2008 Date Posted: 07 Jul 2009

Breathing space Donald Hutera explores the work of Breathing Space in nurturing health and emotional well being read more Issue: Winter 2008 Date Posted: 07 Jul 2009

The mourners' dance: first steps Independent Artist Doran George in a new residency programme at Chisenhale Dance Space deals with the delicate issue of bereavement read more Issue: Winter 2008 Date Posted: 07 Jul 2009

We're still dancing Daphne Cushnie on the difference dance makes to the lives of people with Multiple Sclerosis and Parkinson's Disease read more Issue: Winter 2008 Date Posted: 07 Jul 2009

Dance and obesity: a big issue Jan Burkhardt describes Dance Action Zone Leeds' activity programme to combat obesity in young people read more Issue: Winter 2008 Date Posted: 07 Jul 2009

When time does not fly Bisakha Sarker, Artistic Director of Chaturangan, demonstrates that dance can make time fly for patients whilst they are waiting for treatment read more Issue: Winter 2008 Date Posted: 07 Jul 2009

We can nurture self-esteem, but... how? Joke Verlinden on what community dance can offer read more Issue: Winter 2008 Date Posted: 07 Jul 2009

Dance for Life Laura Deacon on British Red Cross's support for Dance For Life, a national initiative to get more young people to participate in dance read more Issue: Winter 2008 Date Posted: 07 Jul 2009

Rain dancing and sun dancing Choreographer Adesola Akinleye on working with refugee communities in Manchester read more Issue: Winter 2008 Date Posted: 07 Jul 2009

Introducing dance traditions from the African Diaspora to the UK Independent Artist Rosaria Gracia on bringing Afro-Cuban and Afro-Brazilian dance traditions into community dance read more Issue: Winter 2008 Date Posted: 07 Jul 2009

Classroom Moves Kristine Sommerlade and Heather Walker, of Tees Valley Dance, describe their project to get teachers and pupils dancing in the classroom read more Issue: Winter 2008 Date Posted: 07 Jul 2009

Presenting solutions: Made in BC - dance on tour Robyn Campbell describes the development of Made in BC, an initiative linking communities to contemporary dance read more Issue: Winter 2008 Date Posted: 07 Jul 2009

From the editor Ken Bartlett, Creative Director, Foundation for Community Dance read more Issue: Winter 2008 Date Posted: 07 Jul 2009

From the editor Ken Bartlett, Creative Director, Foundation for Community Dance read more Issue: Autumn 2008 Date Posted: 07 Jul 2009

From the editor Ken Bartlett, Creative Director, Foundation for Community Dance read more Issue: Spring 2009 Date Posted: 06 Jul 2009

Move it! Karen Bell looks at how local authority and primary care partners evaluate and value dance with young people read more Issue: Winter 2009 Date Posted: 06 Jul 2009

Moving words Soo Wright describes a creative dance project that supports people in learning English read more Issue: Winter 2009 Date Posted: 06 Jul 2009

Unpacking ballet in Beijing Jonathan Silverman and Martha Ming Whitfield describe a professional development initiative with Royal Opera House Education in Beijing read more Issue: Winter 2009 Date Posted: 06 Jul 2009

Strictly Bed...vroom Carolyn Naish and Manuela Beste on a dance programme developed with young participants in a hospital school read more Issue: Winter 2009 Date Posted: 06 Jul 2009

Critical faculties There's more to community dance than playing by numbers, as Donald Hutera was destined to discover via Destino read more Issue: Spring 2009 Date Posted: 06 Jul 2009

The Cultural Olympiad - a once in a lifetime Bill Morris outlines the opportunities within the Cultural Olympiad read more Issue: Spring 2009 Date Posted: 06 Jul 2009

London calling disabled dancers Marc Brew reflects on his experience of dancing at the Beijing Olympics in 2008 read more Issue: Spring 2009 Date Posted: 06 Jul 2009

People Dancing - dance at heart of the West Midlands 2012 cultural programme Paul Kaynes sets out the ambitions for dance in the cultural olympiad in the West Midlands region read more Issue: Spring 2009 Date Posted: 06 Jul 2009

The people and the place - a joined-up approach to the Cultural Olympiad Sarah Cobley describes how becoming involved from the start has reaped rewards for dance across the South West read more Issue: Spring 2009 Date Posted: 06 Jul 2009

Norfolk is rising to the challenge! Claire Gulliver, Norfolk Development Officer for the 2012 Games, explains how... read more Issue: Spring 2009 Date Posted: 06 Jul 2009

Taking the lead for dance Polly Risbridger on East London Dance's active engagement with all things Olympic read more Issue: Spring 2009 Date Posted: 06 Jul 2009

Re-constructing the image of the disabled performer Fiona Campbell gives some serious thought to how we watch disabled dancers read more Issue: Spring 2009 Date Posted: 06 Jul 2009

Perfect partners? Leonie Haines on her developing practice with older people read more Issue: Spring 2009 Date Posted: 06 Jul 2009

A workforce for the future? Ken Bartlett asks if we need to develop new methodological approaches for community dance to suit the needs of both people and dance? read more Issue: Spring 2009 Date Posted: 06 Jul 2009

The art of moving people Lisa Craddock introduces the National College for Community Dance - a major new professional development iniative for the community dance sector read more Issue: Spring 2009 Date Posted: 06 Jul 2009

Critical faculties Our roving columnist Donald Hutera is mad about a Swiss museum of 'outsider' art. But what has this got to do with dance? read more Issue: Winter 2009 Date Posted: 13 Jun 2009

Ctrl.Alt.Shift Fiona Ross on Sadler's Wells education team with Ctrl.Alt.Shift on a project about sex education and the political engagement of young people. read more Issue: Winter 2009 Date Posted: 26 May 2009

Dance to make you 'feel good' Gerry Turvey describes her work in dance and mental health. read more Issue: Winter 2009 Date Posted: 25 May 2009

DansAthletic - the marriage of the dance and sport sectors? Polly Risbridger and Tia Hassan on the recent launch of DansAthletic: A Teachers Resource, inspired by the Olympic and Paralympic Games. read more Issue: Winter 2009 Date Posted: 25 May 2009

Conflict, content and context in the ageing body Debbie Lee-Anthony on the 'extraordinary poetry of the ageing dancer'. read more Issue: Winter 2009 Date Posted: 25 May 2009

I haven't stopped dancing yet... Karen Gallagher, Artistic Director of Merseyside Dance Initiative, in conversation with Rachel Rogers. read more Issue: Winter 2009 Date Posted: 25 Feb 2009

Definitions, core values and a code of conduct for community dance Ken Bartlett and Chris Stenton present current definitions, core values and a code of professional conduct for community dance. read more Issue: Winter 2009 Date Posted: 25 Feb 2009

From Calabash to Cultural Leadership Judith Palmer, Development Manager at IRIE! Dance Theatre, describes growing from her roots at a Girls Club in Nottingham to becoming a leader in African Peoples' Dance read more Issue: Autumn 2008 Date Posted: 18 Feb 2009

What a view Paddy Masefield reflects on the stark contrasts in public perception between disability artists and disability sports people, which will need to be addressed before the 2012 Paralympics read more Issue: Autumn 2005 Date Posted: 04 Jul 2008

Rhythm is it! Susannah Broughton on reaching new audiences through community dance on film read more Issue: Autumn 2005 Date Posted: 04 Jul 2008

Ballet Hoo! What happened beyond the TV screen? Ginnie Wollaston, was Acting Director of Education at Birmingham Royal Ballet throughout the gestation and delivery of Ballet Hoo! Here she reflects on the impacts felt by all who took part read more Issue: Winter 2007 Date Posted: 23 Jan 2008

Youth Dance England Conference 2007 - Connecting young people with dance: the impact we make Linda Jasper director of Youth Dance England reflects on the recent conference and sets out her key ambitions for the future read more Issue: Summer 2007 Date Posted: 23 Jan 2008

Reflections on conversation Luke Pell, Education Manager for CandoCo, talked with the young delegates at Youth Dance England's conference and here reflects on what they had to say read more Issue: Summer 2007 Date Posted: 23 Jan 2008

Participating in sequence dancing Maureen Flanighan, Dance Teacher read more Issue: Autumn 2007 Date Posted: 23 Jan 2008

Folk Dance; an alternative life style (or Wizards and Muggles) Diana Campbell Jewitt, freelance traditional dance teacher read more Issue: Autumn 2007 Date Posted: 23 Jan 2008

To integrate or disintegrate Does integration have to mean assimilation into or replication of dominant cultural norms? Should we fight labelling and categorisation? Nick Owen and Mandy Redvers Rowe reflect read more Issue: Spring 2002 Date Posted: 23 Jan 2008

North-western exposure Deborah Ashby on testing the impact of professional development, creation and touring opportunities for dancers in Dance Northwest on demand and supply read more Issue: Autumn 2005 Date Posted: 22 Jan 2008

The shadow of a language Margaret Ames of Dawns Dyfed reflects on the meaning of community in the west of Wales read more Issue: Summer 2006 Date Posted: 22 Jan 2008

Communities and the self Sanjeevini Dutta, Artistic Director of Kadam Asian Dance and Music, reflects on the importance of communities within a south Asian dance context read more Issue: Summer 2006 Date Posted: 22 Jan 2008

Community dance in a northern Irish context Heather Floyd argues for the importance of community dance as a term that describes a process which places equal emphasis on the dance and those who participate read more Issue: Summer 2006 Date Posted: 22 Jan 2008

Man dancing Animated, Spring 1997. How do young men get as far as training in dance and what problems do they encounter along the way? Alysoun Tomkins reveals some startling facts read more Issue: Issues 1996 - 2001 Date Posted: 21 Jan 2008

New victories - old battles Carl Reid responds to New Victories, an article by Jo Parkes in the Autumn 2003 issue of Animated, and reflects on the role of the individual artist within collaborative work read more Issue: Winter 2004 Date Posted: 21 Jan 2008

Meeting other worlds Tim Rubidge, co-director of Body Stories shares his experiences of working with older people read more Issue: Winter 2004 Date Posted: 18 Jan 2008

Vincent on Vincent Animated, Spring 1997. Charlotte Vincent talks about her work read more Issue: Issues 1996 - 2001 Date Posted: 18 Jan 2008

Bursting into life Animated, Spring 1997. The Claire Russ Ensemble, Motionhouse and local dance artists have joined forces to create the Warwickshire Youth Dance Programme. Claire Russ reveals how read more Issue: Issues 1996 - 2001 Date Posted: 18 Jan 2008

The breeding ground of regular marvels Animated, Spring 1997. Ruth Trueman looks at Community Dance and its expanding profile in Higher Education read more Issue: Issues 1996 - 2001 Date Posted: 18 Jan 2008

Incentive training? Animated, Spring 1997. Judy Smith urges students to seize the initiative read more Issue: Issues 1996 - 2001 Date Posted: 18 Jan 2008

Investing in flagships Animated, Spring 1997. Laraine Fischer reflects on the value of work placements read more Issue: Issues 1996 - 2001 Date Posted: 18 Jan 2008

The pioneers Animated, Spring 1997. Young disabled dancers are finding a voice, says Ray Jacobs read more Issue: Issues 1996 - 2001 Date Posted: 18 Jan 2008

Dance now pay later Animated, Winter 1997. Dancers are seduced into thinking of only the present. Kenneth Tharp argues why we should act on the findings of Fit to Dance? read more Issue: Issues 1996 - 2001 Date Posted: 18 Jan 2008

Mind your rhetoric Animated, Winter 1997. Antony Smith on limited lexicons and the importance of the tea dance read more Issue: Issues 1996 - 2001 Date Posted: 18 Jan 2008

Growing... old Animated, Winter 1997. Age can equate to growth. Carolyn Naish reflects read more Issue: Issues 1996 - 2001 Date Posted: 18 Jan 2008

Call me old-fashioned, but... Animated, Autumn 1996. Has the kernel of dance choreography faded? Is there a creeping disenchantment with contemporary dance? Nikki Crane fuels the debate read more Issue: Issues 1996 - 2001 Date Posted: 18 Jan 2008

How to be a Tequila Sheila or a red-headed stranger Animated, Autumn 1996. Karen Hall goes globe trotting with Channel 4 read more Issue: Issues 1996 - 2001 Date Posted: 18 Jan 2008

The Focus: participating in a common wealth of dance This issue's focus has been prompted by a number of things that have happened recently... Ken Bartlett, Creative Director, Foundation for Community Dance read more Issue: Autumn 2007 Date Posted: 16 Jan 2008

Critical faculties Donald Hutera had a whale of a time being willingly abducted in Edinburgh read more Issue: Autumn 2007 Date Posted: 15 Jan 2008

Participating in ballet Lee Fisher, Head of Creative Learning at Birmingham Royal Ballet read more Issue: Autumn 2007 Date Posted: 15 Jan 2008

Participation raqs! Desna Mackenzie, Bellydance performer and instructor read more Issue: Autumn 2007 Date Posted: 15 Jan 2008

Taking part Wendy Hermelin, choreographer and dance teacher read more Issue: Autumn 2007 Date Posted: 15 Jan 2008

African people's dance: the ultimate spiritual climax Francis Angol Artistic Director, Movement Angol Dance Company read more Issue: Autumn 2007 Date Posted: 15 Jan 2008

Transferable skills Kate Scanlan, devised the programme for the first Jane Attenborough Dance in Education (JADE) Fellowship. Here she describes the working practices and the legacy of the programme read more Issue: Autumn 2007 Date Posted: 15 Jan 2008

Routes to integration for learning disabled dancers Susan Norwood, co-Artistic Director of Project Volume outlines her approach to the professional development of learning disabled dancers read more Issue: Autumn 2007 Date Posted: 15 Jan 2008

Dance not disability, professionalism not therapy Susie Cox, Course Director of CandoCo's Foundation Course, describes the approach taken that sought to prepare disabled students to access mainstream vocational training in dance read more Issue: Autumn 2007 Date Posted: 15 Jan 2008

Aemilius Sense: alter images, altering lives Rita Marcalo, Artistic Director of dance company Instant Dissidence describes the process of working with community dancers, a film maker and digital artists to create Aemilus Sense read more Issue: Autumn 2007 Date Posted: 15 Jan 2008

Life is a cabaret Brendan Keaney, Director of Greenwich Dance Agency, describes how cabaret nights have brought professional and community dancers closer together read more Issue: Autumn 2007 Date Posted: 15 Jan 2008

Between worlds Tim Rubidge enters into an intercultural dance dialogue with Xhosa dancer Zamuxolo Mgoduka in South Africa read more Issue: Autumn 2007 Date Posted: 15 Jan 2008

The changing face of education in England and the possibilities for dance W. Richard Jones, national specialism co-ordinator for music and performing arts at the Specialist Schools and Academies Trust looks forward to a bright future for dance in schools read more Issue: Summer 2007 Date Posted: 23 Oct 2007

Building partnerships with the sports sector Sue Pennycook, Community and Education Manager at Yorkshire Dance, outlines their developing relationship with the sports sector read more Issue: Summer 2007 Date Posted: 23 Oct 2007

ConfiDance Sadie Walker and Adam Holloway of Cheshire Dance describe the strong relationship being developed between dance and school sport in the Vale Royal area of Cheshire read more Issue: Summer 2007 Date Posted: 23 Oct 2007

Trust dance - a partnership between Dance4 and Newark Emmaus Trust Steph Crawford, Youth Dance Co-ordinator for the East Midlands, describes working with homeless young people read more Issue: Summer 2007 Date Posted: 23 Oct 2007

Considering our impact John Holden, Head of Culture at Demos challenges us to ask how we know what we know and how we evaluate and communicate our impact read more Issue: Summer 2007 Date Posted: 23 Oct 2007

Dance and diversity - international research project Beverley Glean and Rosie Lehan retell their journey to the USA, Jamaica, Cuba and Ghana to look at cultural diversity and African and Caribbean dance forms in dance education read more Issue: Summer 2007 Date Posted: 23 Oct 2007

Critical faculties A trip to Italy helps Donald Hutera recycle his lost youth read more Issue: Summer 2007 Date Posted: 18 Oct 2007

DAiR To... develop partnerships and projects that create a healthy youth dance infrastructure? Jane Ralls explains how five project partners and five dance artists in residence have worked together to increase opportunities for young people to engage in dance read more Issue: Summer 2007 Date Posted: 18 Oct 2007

Progression routes for young people in traditional and contemporary African dance Akosua Boakye-Nimo sets out some of the challenges faced in developing clear and positive progression routes in African People's dance for young people read more Issue: Summer 2007 Date Posted: 18 Oct 2007

Inclusive dance? Ian Abbott, Youth Dance Co-ordinator for the South West, considers the needs of young disabled people dancing read more Issue: Summer 2007 Date Posted: 18 Oct 2007

Dance for health in Scotland's schools Carolyn Lappin, Executive Director of YDance evaluates the impact of dance on children and young people's physical activity levels across Scotland read more Issue: Summer 2007 Date Posted: 15 Aug 2007

We all know that dance is good for you, but can we prove it? Lucy Frazer from Hampshire Dance, Emma Redding and Edel Quin at Laban describe their research into the health benefits for young people participating in dance read more Issue: Summer 2007 Date Posted: 15 Aug 2007

Critical faculties Donald Hutera plays word games as he faces a beautiful dotage read more Issue: Spring 2007 Date Posted: 18 Jul 2007

Age, agility and anxiety - dilemmas of the ageing process upon the mature dancer Debbie Lee-Anthony reflects on her creative practice as a mature dancer, drawing upon extracts of interviews with other mature professional artists read more Issue: Spring 2007 Date Posted: 18 Jul 2007

A compelling combination Celeste Dandeker, Artistic Director CandoCo - the first professional dance company in the UK specialising in the integration of disabled and non-disabled dancers - talks with Scilla Dyke read more Issue: Spring 2007 Date Posted: 18 Jul 2007

Love and authenticity in the age of anxiety - dance and ageing Chitra Sundaram, Bharatanatyam dance artist and editor of the magazine PULSEdance - South Asian Dance in the UK, reflects on our ageing as dancers read more Issue: Spring 2007 Date Posted: 18 Jul 2007

What is cultural dialogue? Ken Bartlett on the Foundation for Community Dance's recent thinking read more Issue: Spring 2007 Date Posted: 18 Jul 2007

Ethnicity and community dance Jane Scott Barrett, Director of Ludus Dance, challenges us to reconsider our approach to ethnicity, dance forms, and community dance read more Issue: Spring 2007 Date Posted: 18 Jul 2007

An evolving dance dialogue Cecilia Macfarlane, in conversation with Ruth Pethybridge, discusses the differences and the commonality in the dancers she works with read more Issue: Spring 2007 Date Posted: 18 Jul 2007

These City Streets David Martin describes a three year programme of dance and music that has built a better understanding of cultural difference and mutual respect amongst young people in Manchester read more Issue: Spring 2007 Date Posted: 18 Jul 2007

Come and join the dance; young people, dance and diversity Celia Greenwood, Director of WAC Performing Arts and Media College describes how it promotes diversity of dance, dances and dancers read more Issue: Spring 2007 Date Posted: 18 Jul 2007

Intercultural dialogue without words: all in the games Bill Harpe Co-Director of The Blackie/Great Georges Community Cultural Project in Liverpool describes a workshop-based approach to facilitating intercultural dialogue read more Issue: Spring 2007 Date Posted: 18 Jul 2007

To Glasgow... With Love Natasha Gilmore describes an initiative that brought together the dances of refugees and asylum seekers with those of the established residents of Maryhill to produce To Glasgow....With Love read more Issue: Spring 2007 Date Posted: 18 Jul 2007

Buildings That Breathe: A case study in community development and engagement Thomas Wildish recounts Derby Dance's year-long project in the Normanton district of Derby that aimed to use dance to bring together its diverse communities read more Issue: Spring 2007 Date Posted: 18 Jul 2007

Dance City: embracing diversity Janet Archer, Chief Executive and Artistic Director of Dance City in Newcastle, reflects on the influences that fed into the development of a diversity strategy that works for them read more Issue: Spring 2007 Date Posted: 18 Jul 2007

Mind is as in motion Dance Artist Gill Clarke reflects on the mindfulness of the dancing body read more Issue: Spring 2007 Date Posted: 18 Jul 2007

Action in Namibia: a shared experience Wieke Eringa, Director of Education and Learning at Northern Ballet Theatre shares her experience of dance working alongside an HIV and AIDS education programme in Namibia read more Issue: Spring 2007 Date Posted: 18 Jul 2007

National Youth Dance Festival 2006 The National Youth Dance Festival organised by Youth Dance England in LEEDS 17-21 July 2006 read more Issue: Autumn 2006 Date Posted: 15 May 2007

Acts of faith Animated, Winter 1999. As process based performance work engaging time as a formal medium is continually marginalised interdisciplinary artist Robert Pacitti explains why he makes... read more Issue: Issues 1996 - 2001 Date Posted: 11 May 2007

Learning how to fly Animated, Autumn 1997. Brian Thomas on spreading your wings read more Issue: Issues 1996 - 2001 Date Posted: 11 May 2007

If age could Animated, Summer 1999. If youth knew, if age could... A wry and rather wistful observation which underscores the predicament of the older artist in dance. Mary Brady reflects read more Issue: Issues 1996 - 2001 Date Posted: 10 May 2007

The problem with steps Animated, Autumn 1999. Adam Benjamin conjectures that the likely barrier keeping disabled students out of training in the future will not be concrete steps it will be technical ones read more Issue: Issues 1996 - 2001 Date Posted: 03 May 2007

How useful is the framework? Sue Davies, Dance Services Manager, Swindon Dance read more Issue: Autumn 2006 Date Posted: 23 Apr 2007

Diamonds in Doncaster, bowlers in Birnam Wood Richard Ings on Protein Dance's work with Pupil Referral Units read more Issue: Autumn 2006 Date Posted: 17 Apr 2007

The vital ingredient Tom Bewick, Chief Executive, Creative & Cultural Skills read more Issue: Autumn 2006 Date Posted: 12 Apr 2007

Harnessing diversity, empowering identity Anna Daly, Community Dance Artist, Ludus Dance read more Issue: Autumn 2006 Date Posted: 10 Apr 2007

Whose language is it anyway? Adam Holloway, Business Director, Cheshire Dance read more Issue: Autumn 2006 Date Posted: 10 Apr 2007

The Academy Dance United works in the criminal justice system. Artistic Director, Tara Herbert, sets out her vision for a new dance academy that aims to give a future to young people who offend read more Issue: Autumn 2006 Date Posted: 05 Apr 2007

Critical faculties Donald Hutera considers the risky business of risk, failure and his own (nominal) instability read more Issue: Winter 2007 Date Posted: 04 Apr 2007

Players not spectators Sue Hoyle offers a rare insight into the underlying principles that permeate dance and cultural leadership read more Issue: Winter 2007 Date Posted: 04 Apr 2007

A story, a joke, a sense of human contact... Journeys through dance and communities Fergus Early, Artistic Director of Green Candle Dance Company offers a personal insight into a lifetime inhabiting dance read more Issue: Winter 2007 Date Posted: 04 Apr 2007

Not just another brick in the wall? Jude Bird, Creative Producer for Creative Partnerships East Lancashire, describes her work in a school for pupils with Special Educational Needs read more Issue: Winter 2007 Date Posted: 04 Apr 2007

Second skin - Creative Partnerships Coventry Louise Katerega works outside her comfort zone to develop creativity read more Issue: Winter 2007 Date Posted: 04 Apr 2007

Dance as a creative catalyst: Creative Partnerships Cornwall Laura Martin, Communications Manager for Creative Partnerships Cornwall writes about how dance has contributed to whole school change and the creativity of pupils and communities read more Issue: Winter 2007 Date Posted: 04 Apr 2007

A quiet revolution? Jeanette Siddall looks at the impact and aspirations of the new Centres for Advanced Training for exceptionally talented young people read more Issue: Winter 2007 Date Posted: 04 Apr 2007

Hip Hop Academy Kwesi Johnson Artistic Director of Kompany Malakhi outlines the development The Akademy, the first Hip Hop Academy in Bristol and his aspirations for its future read more Issue: Winter 2007 Date Posted: 04 Apr 2007

Moving goals Donald Hutera describes the continuous change running through the story of Swindon Dance read more Issue: Winter 2007 Date Posted: 04 Apr 2007

Improvisation: What do I do and why do I do it? Sally Doughty, Senior Lecturer in dance at De Montfort University, reveals her research into widening the skills and vocabulary of dance students in improvisation classes read more Issue: Winter 2007 Date Posted: 04 Apr 2007

Coastal mappings, dancing stories: A community dance residency in New Zealand Petra Kuppers reports on the work she undertook in and around a hospice in Dunedin, New Zealand read more Issue: Winter 2007 Date Posted: 04 Apr 2007

Challenging assumptions Dick Matchett highlights, issues which the dance profession just lovesto chew over - without, reaching any clear-cut conclusions read more Issue: Autumn 2006 Date Posted: 19 Mar 2007

A life in dance: reflections and convictions Marion Gough's pivotal role in the development of dance education in the UK has long been recognised. Here she offers a poignant account of crucial influences read more Issue: Autumn 2006 Date Posted: 02 Feb 2007

Making a Move Introduction by Ken Bartlett, Creative Director, Foundation for Community Dance read more Issue: Autumn 2006 Date Posted: 02 Feb 2007

Workforce development Pauline Tambling, Executive Director Development, Arts Council England read more Issue: Autumn 2006 Date Posted: 02 Feb 2007

Putting Wales in the frame Gillian Dale, Development Director, Community Dance Wales read more Issue: Autumn 2006 Date Posted: 02 Feb 2007

Taking ourselves seriously - at last Diane Amans, Director, Freedom in Dance read more Issue: Autumn 2006 Date Posted: 02 Feb 2007

Putting practitioners in charge Kathryn Deane, Director, Sound Sense read more Issue: Autumn 2006 Date Posted: 02 Feb 2007

Beginning to grasp the nettle? Chris Fogg, Director of Take Art: Dance, the county dance agency for Somerset read more Issue: Autumn 2006 Date Posted: 02 Feb 2007

A South Asian dance response Christina Christou, Head of Education and Community Department, Akademi read more Issue: Autumn 2006 Date Posted: 02 Feb 2007

Shrink'd Yael Flexer, Artistic Director of Bedlam Dance Company, on the making and touring of Shrink'd, an interactive installation & live performance event read more Issue: Autumn 2006 Date Posted: 02 Feb 2007

Cultural shift Caroline Bowditch reports on her extraordinary experience of East London Dance's innovative choreographic development programme for disabled dance artists in Autumn 2005 read more Issue: Autumn 2006 Date Posted: 02 Feb 2007

Real life, real dance - young people and the Criminal Justice System Sarah Trist, independant dance manager and General Manager of Protein Dance, introduces the Real Life, Real Dance Symposium read more Issue: Autumn 2006 Date Posted: 02 Feb 2007

What can dance do for young people who offend? Graham Robb offers us an insight and some practical information on how we in dance can contribute positively to the lives of young people who offend read more Issue: Autumn 2006 Date Posted: 02 Feb 2007

Critical faculties Donald Hutera yearns for emotional intelligence read more Issue: Summer 2006 Date Posted: 15 Nov 2006

Not debating but dancing Maggie Semple OBE reflects on her experience of being a Chief Executive, Chair of Boards, an artist, educator, choreographer, a Civil Service Commissioner, a Trustee and a Governor read more Issue: Summer 2006 Date Posted: 15 Nov 2006

Aesthetic values in community dance: 'deal' or 'no deal'? Against a background of multiple values, Gordon Curl highlights the relevance of aesthetic values and their noticeable absence in current community dance dialogue read more Issue: Summer 2006 Date Posted: 15 Nov 2006

Dance for life Nikki Crane was featured in the Independent newspaper as one of '40 women under 40 who will shape Britain in business and the arts' (1). Here she explains... read more Issue: Summer 2006 Date Posted: 15 Nov 2006

Is community arts redundant as a term? In changing its name from Walsall Community Arts Team to Creative Development Team, Debra Slade describes the shifts in agendas that have led to this read more Issue: Summer 2006 Date Posted: 15 Nov 2006

The disabled community? Chris Hammond, Artistic Director of Full Circle Arts, urges us to work more closely with disabled artists, disability-led organisations and disabled people themselves read more Issue: Summer 2006 Date Posted: 15 Nov 2006

South East Dance in-sync with youth Kyla Lucking, Head of Community and Learning, describes the programme of professional development by South East Dance to support artists to work with young people at risk read more Issue: Summer 2006 Date Posted: 15 Nov 2006

Subject to change: Integration in progress in South Africa Gerry Turvey describes her experience as Education Director and artist in residence with integrated dance company, Remix read more Issue: Summer 2006 Date Posted: 15 Nov 2006

The elements and 4,000 feet Jo Blagg on an event that brings thousands of people together to dance read more Issue: Summer 2006 Date Posted: 15 Nov 2006

Critical faculties Shifting his sights from Gene Kelly to Palestine, Donald Hutera tries to get a handle on the concept of community read more Issue: Spring 2006 Date Posted: 18 Oct 2006

We are a dancing nation Christopher Thomson Director of Learning and Access at The Place offers some personal reflections read more Issue: Spring 2006 Date Posted: 18 Oct 2006

A remarkably effective training ground Linda Jasper, Director of Youth Dance England read more Issue: Spring 2006 Date Posted: 18 Oct 2006

Watch me, watch me! Penny Greenland, Director of JABADAO reflects on the phenomenon of Strictly Come Dancing that captured an avid television audience for dance earlier this year read more Issue: Spring 2006 Date Posted: 18 Oct 2006

Supporting artists supporting communities Mari Martin, Head of Arts at Norfolk County Council outlines the context in which Norfolk Dance is developing the skills of dance artists so that they can better serve the dance needs of people in the county read more Issue: Spring 2006 Date Posted: 18 Oct 2006

Take your partner... Ruth Lloyd, Dance Development Officer for Halton Borough Council reports on the developing relationship from 'blind date' to 'marriage' with dance artist Jo Rhodes and her company Arcane read more Issue: Spring 2006 Date Posted: 18 Oct 2006

Choose your collaborators carefully Chris Fogg, on developing open creative friendships read more Issue: Spring 2006 Date Posted: 18 Oct 2006

Alert to a sense of place Joanne Thomson on Epping Forest District Council's support for dance read more Issue: Spring 2006 Date Posted: 18 Oct 2006

Dancescape - developing dance in a sub region Sarah Jassal (née Sarah Miles), on a new partnership for dance development built between a group of local authorities read more Issue: Spring 2006 Date Posted: 18 Oct 2006

Jump Crawley Helen Linsell, Community Arts Officer for Crawley Community Arts describes work being undertaken to increase participation in dance by boys and young men read more Issue: Spring 2006 Date Posted: 18 Oct 2006

An international festival and local community impact: the Woking perspective Eckhard Thiemann on an international festival contributes to the year-round cultural life of a town by broadening participation in, and audiences for dance read more Issue: Spring 2006 Date Posted: 18 Oct 2006

FACETS 2006 Bisakha Sarker on attending the international choreographic residency in Bangalore, India read more Issue: Spring 2006 Date Posted: 18 Oct 2006

African peoples' dance and the DARE project in Liverpool Rachel Rogers and Karen Gallagher on developing African Peoples' Dance in Liverpool read more Issue: Spring 2006 Date Posted: 18 Oct 2006

Marrying artistic and social agendas through dance in Colombia Sanjoy Roy reflects on the performance work of El Colegio del Cuerpo (The College of the Body) from Cartagena in Colombia read more Issue: Spring 2006 Date Posted: 18 Oct 2006

From the editor Ken Bartlett, Creative Director, Foundation for Community Dance read more Issue: Spring 2006 Date Posted: 02 Oct 2006

Critical faculties Donald Hutera goes behind bars to try and discover the most criminally beneficial moves read more Issue: Winter 2006 Date Posted: 20 Sep 2006

Something always happens Antony Waller in conversation with Scilla Dyke read more Issue: Winter 2006 Date Posted: 20 Sep 2006

Experiencing dance with visually impaired people Wieke Eringa, Director of Learning and Access at Northern Ballet Theatre outlines the work the company is undertaking to make dance more accessible to blind and visually impaired people read more Issue: Winter 2006 Date Posted: 20 Sep 2006

Playing along with the audience Award-winning independent artist Niki McCretton's is a strong consideration for her audience and the part that they play alongside the performer read more Issue: Winter 2006 Date Posted: 20 Sep 2006

Emerging in the 21st century Oliver Scott on his company Mercurial Dance, combining his passion for dance with new media read more Issue: Winter 2006 Date Posted: 20 Sep 2006

Alfresco - intergenerational performance Luca Sylvestrini describes the process of making Alfresco a large scale intergenerational piece for Yorkshire Dance's second community dance festival in Leeds Summer 2005 read more Issue: Winter 2006 Date Posted: 20 Sep 2006

Building deep relationships through apprenticeships Kathy Williams, Youth Dance Manager at RJC Dance outlines the apprenticeship scheme they have been running in the Chapeltown area of Leeds for the past five years read more Issue: Winter 2006 Date Posted: 20 Sep 2006

Ideas of British-Asian dance Ruth Oakley, Touring & Education Manager of Shobana Jeyasingh Dance Company (SJDC) outlines a recent initiative the company undertook in primary schools in Surrey read more Issue: Winter 2006 Date Posted: 20 Sep 2006

Learning through doing Ruth Till reflects on ten years of the Rubicon Community Dance Apprentice Scheme and unravels the secrets of its success read more Issue: Winter 2006 Date Posted: 20 Sep 2006

The Bedroom tour Angela Praed on creating and touring dance to people's bedrooms, and the importance of her sense of place and space as an artist within a rural community read more Issue: Winter 2006 Date Posted: 20 Sep 2006

Still burning bright Jane Scott-Barrett, on Ludus Dance Company's thirty years of work across the UK and abroad read more Issue: Winter 2006 Date Posted: 20 Sep 2006

A journey to Bangladesh Dancer Charlotte Darbyshire on her visit to Bangladesh making connections with dance, disabled people, and communities of people recovering from illness or injury read more Issue: Winter 2006 Date Posted: 20 Sep 2006

Country Dancing? Dance South West's Kate Castle sets the scene for Country Dancing? read more Issue: Autumn 2005 Date Posted: 20 Sep 2006

Slow dancer: moving in the material world An adaptation of a paper by writer, researcher and consultant François Matarasso (1) given as the keynote speech at the Country Dancing? symposium, May 2005 read more Issue: Autumn 2005 Date Posted: 20 Sep 2006

The art of regeneration Kiki Gale and Anthony Peppiatt on meeting creative, social and economic needs through dance to create a positive package of Olympic experiences for young East Londoners read more Issue: Autumn 2005 Date Posted: 20 Sep 2006

Relocation, relocation, relocation To relocate or not to relocate, says June Gamble, is often the question - and through her experience as a life coach, offers some thoughts about deciding whether to make the move read more Issue: Autumn 2005 Date Posted: 20 Sep 2006

Critical faculties Leaving his pith helmet at home, Donald Hutera heads off to Kenya to get to grips with contemporary dance read more Issue: Autumn 2005 Date Posted: 22 Feb 2006

Leap forward to 2012 Hilary Carty on the importance of 'selecting in' to the cultural journey read more Issue: Autumn 2005 Date Posted: 22 Feb 2006

Between ourselves and other nations Sue Harrison on making the most of opportunity and creating a lasting legacy for community dance read more Issue: Autumn 2005 Date Posted: 22 Feb 2006

Hip hopstory Kwesi Johnson, of Kompany Malakhi tells us about their new touring work for teenagers and adults read more Issue: Summer 2003 Date Posted: 02 Nov 2005

Choreographic commissions: Bringing dance to life Creating living opportunities for emerging choreographers: Francesca Rendle-Short tells us about the Australian experience read more Issue: Spring 2003 Date Posted: 02 Nov 2005

Station to station Dansstationen co-director Torsten Schenlaer explains how dance has reached new levels of popularity in regional Sweden read more Issue: Summer 2005 Date Posted: 27 Oct 2005

Hands on... Hands off Teaching through touch is a delicate matter. Rachel Rist and Jeanette Siddall consider the issues for both pupils and teachers read more Issue: Spring 2002 Date Posted: 27 Oct 2005

Outside in Five choreographers were invited to work with Royal Ballet dancers. But, as Kenneth Tharp muses it is not only the outside coming in, but a two way process. Here he explains read more Issue: Spring 2002 Date Posted: 27 Oct 2005

Moving forward? Dancing Differently? revealed a breadth, richness and maturity of debate and promoted many fruitful discussions. Susanne Burns and Sue Akroyd attempted to distil some of the themes read more Issue: Summer 2002 Date Posted: 26 Oct 2005

Ready to fly Lauren Scholey, Assistant Dance Officer, Arts Council England, considers a strategy for the future and her resonsibility for Dance and Disability read more Issue: Summer 2002 Date Posted: 26 Oct 2005

Fuelled by desire Andrea Buckley recounts an intensive devising process under the tutelage of Siobhan Davies read more Issue: Winter 2002 Date Posted: 26 Oct 2005

Dancing detectives open the box Yael Owen from Coventry's Performing Arts Service introduces us to Beingfrank: a new dance company developing work with and for boys and young men in the West Midlands read more Issue: Winter 2005 Date Posted: 26 Oct 2005

Roller coaster ride of making and touring dance Three years in the making My Mother My Daughter Myself featured participants from two to 65. Erica Stanton and Marion Gough, investigate these intense but compelling relationships read more Issue: Spring 2002 Date Posted: 25 Oct 2005

Invisible identity? Invisible voice? Independent dance artist Brenda Edwards reflects on her experiences over the last twenty years and raises important questions for the future read more Issue: Summer 2004 Date Posted: 18 Oct 2005

Lights, camera, action Animated, Autumn 1997. Hilary Shedel reports on the first course of its kind designed for those with a basic knowledge of photography and a mandatory enthusiasm for dance! read more Issue: Issues 1996 - 2001 Date Posted: 06 Oct 2005

Dance is the art form whose moment has come The Rt Hon Estelle Morris, Minister for the Arts in conversation with Dr Scilla Dyke MBE. read more Issue: Spring 2005 Date Posted: 05 Oct 2005

Welsh through the medium of dance Overcoming exclusion from community dance for welsh speakers, Jen Angharad reveals the importance of Welsh language dance provision in Wales read more Issue: Summer 2004 Date Posted: 30 Sep 2005

Going places Matthew Jones and Paul Zetter describe the work undertaken by the David Glass Ensemble over the past seven years to support a community dance initiative in Vietnam read more Issue: Summer 2004 Date Posted: 29 Sep 2005

Off kilter Lucy Mason and Morag Deyes describe their expanding journey into the cultural mosaic that is dance in Scotland read more Issue: Summer 2004 Date Posted: 26 Sep 2005

Breakin' Convention Alistair Spalding the artistic director of Sadler's Wells in conversation with JonziD the curator of Breakin' Convention Festival of Hip Hop dance Theatre read more Issue: Summer 2004 Date Posted: 26 Sep 2005

Exposed Animated, Autumn 2000. Dialogue between dancer and photographer is what it takes to make a dance photography course work. Hilary Shedel, explains read more Issue: Issues 1996 - 2001 Date Posted: 23 Sep 2005

It's critical Animated, Summer 1998. Gill Clarke, Independent Dance Artist and Deborah Barnard, Dance Northwest/Ludus Dance Agency on debate amongst artists, and between artists and funders read more Issue: Issues 1996 - 2001 Date Posted: 23 Sep 2005

Moving On Up Animated, Spring 1998. Janet Archer elaborates on Dance City's Moving on Up and, Lesley Younger talks about the new Sunderland Dance Initiative read more Issue: Issues 1996 - 2001 Date Posted: 23 Sep 2005

Increasing visibility Animated, Summer 1999. Fi Frances highlights the urgent need for training for those artists wishing to work well with older people... read more Issue: Issues 1996 - 2001 Date Posted: 21 Sep 2005

Diagnostic dance David Massingham outlines the emergence of Shift, a project for young men with mental health issues, and asks how are we to develop new practice without stepping into the unknown? read more Issue: Winter 2005 Date Posted: 25 Aug 2005

Better medicine Steph Hall, dance development worker at Dance 4, explains OUTward MOVES - a children's out-patient dance and movement project at Nottingham's Queens Medical Centre. read more Issue: Spring 2005 Date Posted: 23 Aug 2005

Critical faculties Roving dance reporter Donald Hutera gets the community buzz in Nottingham and Finland read more Issue: Autumn 2004 Date Posted: 18 Aug 2005

Bloomin' renewal Skills development officer Yee Ling Tang describes the ways in which artists freshen up themselves and their practice at Cheshire Dance read more Issue: Summer 2005 Date Posted: 11 Aug 2005

Rita, Sue and Katie, too Katie Ward enthuses about the possibilities of using dance to inform young people about sexual health and relationships read more Issue: Summer 2005 Date Posted: 10 Aug 2005

Science says... From pointe shoes to pointed remarks, Matthew Wyon offers insights into a dancer's health read more Issue: Summer 2005 Date Posted: 10 Aug 2005

Hospital lullaby Former company manager Mairead Turner offers a personal response to spring issue cover girl Jasmin Vardimon's Lullaby read more Issue: Summer 2005 Date Posted: 10 Aug 2005

Labyrinthine designs British artist Jim Buchanan roams the world inviting others into his cunning pathways read more Issue: Summer 2005 Date Posted: 10 Aug 2005

Awakened by touch Follow Katy Dymoke's journey from dance therapist to creator of special training courses for dance artists and activity nurses in mental health settings read more Issue: Summer 2005 Date Posted: 09 Aug 2005

Their worlds Newcastle-based Amanda Drago charts her first foray into blending new technology and dance for children read more Issue: Summer 2005 Date Posted: 08 Aug 2005

Peer pleasure East London Dance programme manager Polly Risbridger takes a Leap of Faith over older people dancing read more Issue: Summer 2005 Date Posted: 08 Aug 2005

Between the beds... Thanks to her mum, choreographer Bim Malcolmson began a whole new career devising dances for hospitals read more Issue: Summer 2005 Date Posted: 08 Aug 2005

A change of air Dance artist Miranda Tufnell and writer and psychotherapist Brenda Mallon share their approach to the sensing body and the healing power of the imagination read more Issue: Summer 2005 Date Posted: 08 Aug 2005

The College of the Body / El Colegio del Cuerpo Here Ãlvaro Restrepo describes the work of El Colegio del Cuerpo in Cartagena, Colombia and reveals connections between dance and the issues and concerns of the Colombian people read more Issue: Autumn 2002 Date Posted: 05 Aug 2005

Critical faculties From city slicker to nature boy: Donald Hutera discovers latent tree-hugging tendencies in the middle of a somewhere called Somerset read more Issue: Summer 2005 Date Posted: 05 Aug 2005

Only then do we understand the journey As AMICI Dance Theatre celebrates its 25th Anniversary Wolfgang Stange talks to Scilla Dyke about the company's core philosophy and practice read more Issue: Summer 2005 Date Posted: 05 Aug 2005

Policy into practice Diane Amans sheds welcome light on the meaning of partnership working and how to achieve it read more Issue: Summer 2005 Date Posted: 05 Aug 2005

Community dance in Switzerland - does it exist? Here Susanne Scheider describes the fragile growth of Community Dance in Switzerland read more Issue: Autumn 2002 Date Posted: 04 Aug 2005

In fair winds and foul What role can art play in war? When a violent conflict engulfs a community, maintaining a constructive use for artists is not easy. Nicholas Rowe on The Popular Art Centre in Palestine read more Issue: Autumn 2002 Date Posted: 04 Aug 2005

The Living Room Deb Ashby and Sian Warusynski of Dance Initiative Greater Manchester (DiGM) reveal three years' grassroots activity involving disabled people dancing read more Issue: Summer 2002 Date Posted: 02 Aug 2005

The quality question! Here, Sian Prime considers what perceptions we bring to the issue of quality when viewing and engaging with dance by people with disabilities read more Issue: Summer 2002 Date Posted: 02 Aug 2005

Creative climates Anna Cutler, of Creative Partnerships Kent, is fervid about what's happening at Brockhill Park School read more Issue: Autumn 2003 Date Posted: 04 Jul 2005

Signature moves No longer bothered by the stereotype that dance is for girls, the Holloway Boyz are proud to dance. Kate Scanlan explains read more Issue: Winter 2005 Date Posted: 24 Jun 2005

Dance Included: Why did we do it - how did we do it? Lauren Scholey tells us about Arts Council England's research project into dance and social exclusion read more Issue: Summer 2003 Date Posted: 24 Jun 2005

Holding the balance Motionhouse on the inside at HM Prison Dovegate, a maximum-security prison in Staffordshire. Here, Kevin Finnan shares some of the background to the project read more Issue: Summer 2003 Date Posted: 24 Jun 2005

Line of enquiry and visions Co-artistic directors of Australian based interdisciplinary performance company IGNEOUS, James Cunningham and Suzon Fuks, describe their five week residency in Nottingham read more Issue: Summer 2003 Date Posted: 24 Jun 2005

No right or wrong Being open to new ideas and ways of working, making space for the conventional and the unconventional: Jane Greenfield talks about changing the face of work for children read more Issue: Summer 2003 Date Posted: 24 Jun 2005

The Water Project Chris Thomson illuminates the relationships, partnerships and the practices being developed through the Water Project read more Issue: Summer 2003 Date Posted: 24 Jun 2005

Physical justice Learning to 'think big': Alex Kenyon reports on developing the programme for young offenders in East London read more Issue: Summer 2003 Date Posted: 24 Jun 2005

Reading physical writing Jasmine Fitter on Random Dance creating abstract dance performance for children read more Issue: Summer 2003 Date Posted: 24 Jun 2005

Time to dance Lois Taylor on attik dance working with older people in Plymouth read more Issue: Summer 2003 Date Posted: 24 Jun 2005

Time to reflect Gerri Moriarty outlines self evaluation and reflective practice for those organisations taking part in Dance Included read more Issue: Summer 2003 Date Posted: 24 Jun 2005

Working with issues Deborah Barnard outlines the development of Zygote, the current Ludus Dance show about teenage pregnancy read more Issue: Summer 2003 Date Posted: 24 Jun 2005

Einstein was right Crying Out Loud's Emma Gladstone offers a personal view on the rewards of producing the impossible read more Issue: Autumn 2003 Date Posted: 22 Jun 2005

Unleashing the unwanted on the unexpecting Nick Owen, director of Aspire Education Action Zone, wonders what place true creativity has in a learning environment, which distrusts dialogue? read more Issue: Autumn 2003 Date Posted: 22 Jun 2005

New VIctories? Jo Parkes, with support from Graham Jefferys, spotlights the great possibilities and potential pitfalls of the teacher/artist role read more Issue: Autumn 2003 Date Posted: 21 Jun 2005

A decade of dance ecology Kat Bridge, Jamie Watton and Brendan Keaney, trace the development of Greenwich Dance Agency read more Issue: Autumn 2003 Date Posted: 17 Jun 2005

Movement! Communication! Joy! Fergus Early dives head-first into Green Candle's Dance Summer School for Deaf Children read more Issue: Autumn 2003 Date Posted: 17 Jun 2005

It's a gift Out on the road with Heidi Wilson, who unwraps Powys Dance's Early Years project The Present/Yr Anrheg read more Issue: Autumn 2003 Date Posted: 16 Jun 2005

Up to the challenge Jacqueline Rose, Arts Council London, charts the development of an initiative designed to create greater dance opportunities for young people in the London region read more Issue: Autumn 2003 Date Posted: 16 Jun 2005

Do or DiE Knowing what is at stake in her sector, Community Dance Wales development director, Gillian Dale asks us to keep dance in mind read more Issue: Autumn 2003 Date Posted: 15 Jun 2005

Towards the creative class Professor David Hopkins of the Department for Education and Skills is caught between a rock and a creative place read more Issue: Autumn 2003 Date Posted: 13 Jun 2005

Dancing the words Lucy Moelwyn-Hughes, Education Officer at the Place finds that science and dance are a magic formula read more Issue: Autumn 2003 Date Posted: 13 Jun 2005

Path of enlightenment Helen Bell and Dee Davison, Dance Policy Advisors at the Department for Culture, Media and Sport, get to grips with the puzzling pathways of dance education read more Issue: Autumn 2003 Date Posted: 13 Jun 2005

Towards a rigour of the imagination - the education of individual creative artists Gill Clarke sets out her vision for the educated 'curious' artist inhabiting a world where dance is common currency read more Issue: Winter 2003 Date Posted: 10 Jun 2005

Negotiating diversity: learning about community dance Caroline Plummer and Ralph Buck on community dance in New Zealand read more Issue: Spring 2004 Date Posted: 09 Jun 2005

Dance in diasporic communities: issues and implications Judy Van Zile, Professor of Dance, University of Hawai'i at Manoa, raises some important questions about cultural authenticity, cultural diversity and ownership read more Issue: Spring 2004 Date Posted: 09 Jun 2005

What is the reality of dance? Paula Varanda on a community dance programme in South East Portugal read more Issue: Winter 2004 Date Posted: 08 Jun 2005

Quality and equality Jo Verrent on the latest researchof the Department for Education and Skills on opportunities for disabled people in accessing dance and drama awards read more Issue: Winter 2004 Date Posted: 08 Jun 2005

Above and beyond Paddy Masefield excites the delegates at the Above and Beyond international disability arts conference read more Issue: Winter 2004 Date Posted: 08 Jun 2005

Xposure Katherine Phillips reviews the Xposure festival and asks how we can address issues of artistic quality as well as the social value of dance with disabled people read more Issue: Winter 2004 Date Posted: 08 Jun 2005

Mission accomplished? Deborah Baddoo on the Mission initiative for black dance read more Issue: Winter 2004 Date Posted: 08 Jun 2005

Ballroom bliss Maria Benjamin on Free Summer on the South Bank at the Royal Festival Hall read more Issue: Winter 2004 Date Posted: 08 Jun 2005

Mentoring new choreographers Julia Potts on what Magpie Dance is doing to support choreography by its learning disabled dancers read more Issue: Spring 2004 Date Posted: 08 Jun 2005

Rule breaker Cecilia Macfarlane offers a rare insight into the evolution of an independent dance artist spanning 32 years... Here she speaks candidly of her beliefs and aspirations to Dr Scilla Dyke read more Issue: Winter 2004 Date Posted: 07 Jun 2005

The making of refugee dance communities Pegge Vissicaro and Danielle Cousins Godfrey on the work of Freedom Inc. in Phoenix, Arizona read more Issue: Winter 2004 Date Posted: 07 Jun 2005

The seriousness of having fun: the political agenda of community dance Dr. Sara Houston argues the importance of putting the fun back into community dance read more Issue: Winter 2004 Date Posted: 06 Jun 2005

Marks of time Bisakha Sarker on challenging conventions as a mature dancer read more Issue: Winter 2004 Date Posted: 06 Jun 2005

Dance for regeneration and renewal Virginia Kennedy on what inspires her and supports community regeneration in her work read more Issue: Winter 2004 Date Posted: 06 Jun 2005

Making the invisible people visible Tamara McLorg argues for the place of the mature dancer in community dance read more Issue: Winter 2004 Date Posted: 06 Jun 2005

Well being or well meaning? Mike White from the Centre for Arts and Humanities in Health and Medicine (CAHHM), University of Durham on the importance of evaluation read more Issue: Spring 2005 Date Posted: 25 May 2005

Breathing space Helen Poyner on artists exploring health and wellbeing read more Issue: Spring 2005 Date Posted: 25 May 2005

The point of boys' dance Miranda Johnson on The Point's programme to involve boys in dance, from pre-school to young-manhood read more Issue: Winter 2005 Date Posted: 25 May 2005

Snakes and ladders/Reflecting on learning Sue Smith and Stine Nilsen of CandoCo on the UK's first Foundation Course in Dance for disabled students read more Issue: Autumn 2004 Date Posted: 13 May 2005

Entitled to dance: boys in schools Veronica Jobbins describes the positive work being undertaken in schools across the country to include more boys in dance read more Issue: Winter 2005 Date Posted: 12 May 2005

Raw skills Rosie Lehan reports on the success of Raw Skills an initiative for young men initiated by IRIE! dance theatre read more Issue: Winter 2005 Date Posted: 12 May 2005

Boys dancing up north Janet Archer, Director of Dance City in Newcastle charts the development of boys dancing in the North East and challenges the Billy Elliot effect read more Issue: Winter 2005 Date Posted: 12 May 2005

This dancing thing Dylan Quinn describes some of his recent work in Northern Ireland with young men and ponders what it is about dance that helps them succeed read more Issue: Winter 2005 Date Posted: 12 May 2005

Joined up or tied in knots Andrew Peggie reviews The Art of Inclusion, the recently published report of Arts Council England about social inclusion and the arts. read more Issue: Winter 2005 Date Posted: 12 May 2005

Landscapes, dances and stories: preparing for New Zealand Petra Kuppers has been awarded the first Caroline Plummer Fellowship in Community Dance at the University of Otago, New Zealand. Here Petra shares some of her thoughts read more Issue: Winter 2005 Date Posted: 12 May 2005

Shifting the balance of power? POTENTIAL is the Foundation for Community Dance's programme of work focused on dance and disabled people. Emily Horwood, development officer, tells us more read more Issue: Winter 2005 Date Posted: 12 May 2005

Choreographic encounters of the east African kind Gerry Turvey reports back on a project that took place in Nairobi that she describes as 'four weeks of a learning, giving, challenging, richly rewarding and totally stimulating experience' read more Issue: Winter 2005 Date Posted: 12 May 2005

Dance of hope Choreographer and teacher Tamara McLorg and musician Barry Ganberg on The Dance of Hope project - working with young people in Lima, Peru read more Issue: Spring 2005 Date Posted: 11 May 2005

Critical faculties By Donald Hutera read more Issue: Winter 2005 Date Posted: 11 May 2005

The creative dancer Dancer, teacher and choreographer Kenneth Tharp OBE in conversation with Scilla Dyke read more Issue: Winter 2005 Date Posted: 11 May 2005

Gained in translation Louise Katerega, independent dance artist and Co-Artistic Director FOOT IN HAND on learning as a dancer/choreographer through working in integrated dance read more Issue: Spring 2005 Date Posted: 10 May 2005

Critical faculties Mature critic Donald Hutera eats his carrots and counts his lucky grey hairs read more Issue: Spring 2005 Date Posted: 10 May 2005

Missing the boat Lara Dose, director of the National Network for the Arts in Health on the role of the arts in physical activity read more Issue: Spring 2005 Date Posted: 10 May 2005

Why dance...? Jeremy Spafford asks his fellow dancers from DugOut, an adult community contemporary dance group read more Issue: Spring 2005 Date Posted: 10 May 2005

Dance for Life Cathy Middleton on dancing for life in Bradford read more Issue: Spring 2005 Date Posted: 10 May 2005

Fit to dance in east Brighton Hannah Wheeler on taking a local focus, and the importance of partnerships read more Issue: Spring 2005 Date Posted: 10 May 2005

We can do hard things Penny Greenland on getting sorted out about dance and health read more Issue: Spring 2005 Date Posted: 10 May 2005

The secret life of the creative self "Would the real me please step forwards" "Tonight Matthew, I'm going to be..." By Manny Emslie and Sue Akroyd read more Issue: Spring 2004 Date Posted: 29 Apr 2005

Accessing the elusive Choreographer Rosemary Brandt reveals her approach to the development of new approaches to the teaching of Ballet for the 21st Century read more Issue: Spring 2004 Date Posted: 29 Apr 2005

Getting people to believe in themselves By Suz Broughton read more Issue: Spring 2004 Date Posted: 28 Apr 2005

Redressing the balance Penny Greenland MBE reveals the threads of her methodologies and the wellspring of the passion that drives her work read more Issue: Spring 2004 Date Posted: 28 Apr 2005

Safahr: a voyage - developing diverse audiences with parents and schools Rachel Carter uncovers some unexpected learning about developing diverse audiences in their partnership with Birmingham Royal Ballet and local schools read more Issue: Summer 2004 Date Posted: 27 Apr 2005

Introducing Youth Dance England - connecting young people and dance Linda Jasper the director of Youth Dance England outlines the remit of the organisation and the issues she hopes it will address in the coming months read more Issue: Summer 2004 Date Posted: 27 Apr 2005

Critical faculties UK dance writer Donald Hutera chooses the fat in the first of an ongoing series of commentary-filled columns read more Issue: Spring 2004 Date Posted: 27 Apr 2005

Where the place and people meet Kate Castle, director of Dance South West in conversation with Scilla Dyke read more Issue: Spring 2004 Date Posted: 27 Apr 2005

Method in my madness By Marion Gough read more Issue: Spring 2004 Date Posted: 27 Apr 2005

'Thinking dancers': the alchemy of dance 'Alchemy: the transmutation of baser metals into gold' [Oxford English Dictionary] by Michael Platt read more Issue: Spring 2004 Date Posted: 27 Apr 2005

The possibilities are endless... By Rosemary Lee read more Issue: Spring 2004 Date Posted: 27 Apr 2005

Wealth of experience By Ruth Till read more Issue: Spring 2004 Date Posted: 27 Apr 2005

Community/Performance Christina Tsoules reports on the first Community/Performance conference held at Bryant University, Rhode Island earlier this year read more Issue: Autumn 2004 Date Posted: 25 Apr 2005

Dance and the Muslim context Eckhard Thiemann charts Woking Dance Festival's engagement with local Muslim communities read more Issue: Autumn 2004 Date Posted: 25 Apr 2005

Critical faculties Soul Dad Donald Hutera asks who you'd choose as your choreographic parents? read more Issue: Summer 2004 Date Posted: 25 Apr 2005

Be nimble... Some reflections on accessibility Fergus Early artistic director of Green Candle Dance Company, describes how his eclectic mix of form reaches new audiences read more Issue: Summer 2004 Date Posted: 25 Apr 2005

The politics of inclusion The face of cultural diversity has changed but brought with it new and more fundamental challenges. Naseem Khan - writer and policy advisor - pinpoints some of them read more Issue: Summer 2004 Date Posted: 25 Apr 2005

The culture of diversity Deborah Williams reports on her research into the needs of culturally diverse disabled artists, asks important questions that still need to be addressed and encourages us to ask them read more Issue: Summer 2004 Date Posted: 25 Apr 2005

Urban myths - a rumble in the jungle Amanda Roberts describes Urban Myths a rolling three-year development programme, which seeks to harness the incredibly strong influence urban culture has on contemporary culture read more Issue: Summer 2004 Date Posted: 25 Apr 2005

Blooming Bollywood Reena Tailor and Skinder Hundal describe the development of the Bollywood Dance Academy in Birmingham read more Issue: Summer 2004 Date Posted: 25 Apr 2005

Engaging with all our elders: Hamaray khawab/Our Dreams Chris Sudworth on Hamaray Khawab/Our Dreams, an innovative participatory arts project for South Asian people over 50, living in Bolton read more Issue: Summer 2004 Date Posted: 25 Apr 2005

International exchange Cath Sims reveals how Ludus Dance hosted an international youth dance exchange, helping to pursue a long-held aspiration to develop their community work internationally read more Issue: Autumn 2004 Date Posted: 22 Apr 2005

TEN@Random Rachel McCartney on Random Dance's dance and information technology project in London schools read more Issue: Autumn 2004 Date Posted: 22 Apr 2005

If you go down to the beach today... Kevin Isaacs on Motionhouse Dance Theatre's The Road To The Beach read more Issue: Autumn 2004 Date Posted: 22 Apr 2005

More than just a brick in the wall 21 years on, Jenny Potkins looks back over the evolution of Chisenhale Dance Space and the development of thriving dance communities and of community dance read more Issue: Autumn 2004 Date Posted: 22 Apr 2005

Desire of the Light Sweet Crude Chris Lewis-Smith reflects on the shifting nature of 'community' through the making process of Desire of the Light Sweet Crude, a summer performance project with TAN Dance of South Wales read more Issue: Autumn 2004 Date Posted: 22 Apr 2005

The skin of our nature/the nature of our skin Angus Balbernie reflects on his experiences of creating communities of dancers and of the underlying philosophies of 'community' read more Issue: Autumn 2004 Date Posted: 22 Apr 2005

Living dance forwards, learning it backwards Marie McCluskey MBE, Director of Swindon Dance and Patron of the Foundation for Community Dance in conversation with Scilla Dyke read more Issue: Autumn 2004 Date Posted: 22 Apr 2005

From the editor Ken Bartlett, Creative Director, Foundation for Community Dance read more Issue: Spring 2004 Date Posted: 17 Nov 2004

ArtistLink Jacqueline Gray is director of Hampshire Dance, here she talks about Artistlink, a professional development members scheme for local dancers read more Issue: Spring 2003 Date Posted: 22 Jan 2004

Being part of something that is really a profession Eddie Nixon looks at Dance UK's recent initiatives to support the professional development of choreographers read more Issue: Spring 2003 Date Posted: 22 Jan 2004

Breakthrough at the ballet Gwen Van Spijk reports on an innovative programme of professional development opportunities initiated at Birmingham Royal Ballet read more Issue: Spring 2003 Date Posted: 22 Jan 2004

History of learning Charlotte Vincent plots a personal journey and route map read more Issue: Spring 2003 Date Posted: 22 Jan 2004

If only I could find a dance manager... I would be able to... Jacqueline Rose, charts the development of initiatives designed to support the professional development of independent dance managers in London read more Issue: Spring 2003 Date Posted: 22 Jan 2004

Learning on the job Dawn Prentice, CandoCo's administrative director, talks about some of the ways in which the company approaches the professional development needs of its disabled artists read more Issue: Spring 2003 Date Posted: 22 Jan 2004

Professional development @ DanceCity DanceCity's director Janet Archer looks at over ten years of professional development opportunities in the North East of England, with the emphasis on 'quality people time' read more Issue: Spring 2003 Date Posted: 22 Jan 2004

Reflections of a dance manager Deborah Baddoo gives her personal reflections on the issues faced by black dance managers, and the context in which they and other black artists operate in the UK read more Issue: Spring 2003 Date Posted: 22 Jan 2004

Returning to learning - lifelong learning Alysoun Tomkins on what happens when you give yourself a chance read more Issue: Spring 2003 Date Posted: 22 Jan 2004

Trusting and investing in our artists Sue Way, dance officer at the Arts Council Englands South West office, tells us the story so far and reveals the connections in the region that make this possible read more Issue: Spring 2003 Date Posted: 22 Jan 2004

Leading the way? Leadership in the arts is a hot issue. Here, Duncan Fraser asks questions about leadership in the dance sector read more Issue: Winter 2003 Date Posted: 26 Jun 2003

What are the essential ingredients of a creative partnership between an artist and a teacher? Anna Ledgard reports on the new action based research initiative Animarts, exploring the interface between artists and teachers read more Issue: Winter 2003 Date Posted: 26 Jun 2003

Steps in time - stepping up the action Gillian Dale on developing professional practice in Wales read more Issue: Winter 2003 Date Posted: 26 Jun 2003

PAL Dance Lab 2002 PAL seeks to create new interdisciplinary Labs for professional practitioners. Here, Emilyn Claid, examines the impacts and outcomes read more Issue: Winter 2003 Date Posted: 26 Jun 2003

Professional development? Now there is something to ruminate about. When and how did that start happening? Judy Bird tells us her story so far read more Issue: Winter 2003 Date Posted: 26 Jun 2003

Taking responsibility for access? Sue Williams, CreativePeople Disability Co-ordinator, outlines the issues that we all need to address to make CPD accessible and inclusive read more Issue: Winter 2003 Date Posted: 26 Jun 2003

Response to Dr Andree Grau's 'Dance and cultural identity' In the Autumn 2001 issue of Animated we published an article by Dr Andree Grau 'Dance and Cultural Identity'. Here Uttara Asha Coorlawala continues the debate read more Issue: Autumn 2002 Date Posted: 26 Jun 2003

Continuing to develop tradition Bithika Chatterjee and Mira Kaushik offer their perspective on continuous development projects for South Asian dancers read more Issue: Winter 2003 Date Posted: 25 Jun 2003

Creating independence, making choices, taking control Chris Stenton, General Manager, Foundation for Community Dance on professional development and you read more Issue: Winter 2003 Date Posted: 25 Jun 2003

Dance artist required - an enthusiastic learner, as well as deliverer Adam Holloway on the research for and development of Bloom - a new professional development programme for community dance read more Issue: Winter 2003 Date Posted: 25 Jun 2003

Gradient Natalie Gordon and Kyla Lucking on a professional development project that aims to address that age-old Catch 22: you need experience to get a job and a job to get experience read more Issue: Winter 2003 Date Posted: 25 Jun 2003

Making training count Sally Hartshorne, project manager at Arts Training Central, on how to get a meaningful and successful development experience read more Issue: Winter 2003 Date Posted: 25 Jun 2003

Being there: Liz Aggiss is finally present Up close and personal, Liz Aggiss opens her diary to the world to reveal the artist inside that's been screaming for space. And finally got some. This ring any bells? read more Issue: Winter 2003 Date Posted: 20 Jun 2003

A certain flexibility Donald Hutera, dance writer and critic talks to Israeli choreographer Yael Flexer who looks back on ten years of living and making work in Britain read more Issue: Autumn 2002 Date Posted: 14 Mar 2003

Art at the heart of democratic practice Ines Sanguinetti, on developing community cultural centres in the barrios of Buenos Aires, Argentina read more Issue: Autumn 2002 Date Posted: 14 Mar 2003

Building a global creative exchange Creative Exchange partners are not prepared to see arts and culture confined to a marginal role in society. Here Helen Gould explains what Creative Exchange partners are up to around the globe read more Issue: Autumn 2002 Date Posted: 14 Mar 2003

Building bridges across cultural divides Melanie Nix on why rehearsing Romeo and Juliet whilst residing together on a farm in Zimbabwe felt at times more like an African twist on Big Brother than an artistic endeavour read more Issue: Autumn 2002 Date Posted: 14 Mar 2003

Disabled by circumstance A chance encounter with Wales Aid to Craiova took Ruth Till and Tracey Brown on an extraordinary journey. Here they explain how the germ of an idea became a catalyst for change read more Issue: Autumn 2002 Date Posted: 14 Mar 2003

Links with the land Jeanette Fabila, indigenous dancer and teacher, and a speaker at Dance in the Landscape the second Australian national forum for community dance writes about her work read more Issue: Autumn 2002 Date Posted: 14 Mar 2003

Living Stones Village - developing dance in China Here Katie MacCabe reflects on her evocative trip to China read more Issue: Autumn 2002 Date Posted: 14 Mar 2003

To be a better teacher Here, Ehud Krauss and Dr. Shirley Brice-Heath explain the search of an artist-teacher and linguistic anthropologist read more Issue: Autumn 2002 Date Posted: 14 Mar 2003

Un secteur en effervescence There is a widespread feeling in Canada that the development of dance with and for young people is critical to the health and growth of dance as an artform Carol Anderson explains read more Issue: Autumn 2002 Date Posted: 14 Mar 2003

Disability Discrimination Act 1995 The Disability Discrimination Act was passed in 1995 to help end discrimination faced by disabled people read more Issue: Summer 2002 Date Posted: 06 Mar 2003

Interview with Anjali Anjali Dance Company is a professional dance company. All of Anjali's dancers have a learning disability. Here Nicole Thomson interviews Mark Barber, a dancer with the company read more Issue: Summer 2002 Date Posted: 05 Mar 2003

Building an aesthetic Choreographer Claire Russ, through her work with Anjali Dance Company, talks about the process of defining their aesthetic read more Issue: Summer 2002 Date Posted: 05 Mar 2003

Dancing Differently? Independence, inclusion and diversity by Ken Bartlett read more Issue: Summer 2002 Date Posted: 05 Mar 2003

Finding the right place and the right opportunity Even if you happen to have learning disabilities? Daughter and Mother Jenny and Sue Blackwell recount their experiences, frustrations and aspirations read more Issue: Summer 2002 Date Posted: 05 Mar 2003

Future action Moving the work forward - the final session of the Dancing Differently? conference read more Issue: Summer 2002 Date Posted: 05 Mar 2003

Giving value? Diane Amans on training and mentoring dancers, managing projects and researching evaluation methodology. Here she asks some key questions about evaluating community dance read more Issue: Summer 2002 Date Posted: 05 Mar 2003

Dancing Differently? or just dancing? The main reason for the Dancing Differently? conference was to bring Disabled and non-disabled dance artists together to share current practice. Ruth Gould, reflects read more Issue: Summer 2002 Date Posted: 05 Mar 2003

Where have we been... Where are we now? Independent consultant Sarah Scott looks back to the future of the history and politics of disability arts read more Issue: Summer 2002 Date Posted: 05 Mar 2003

Who would have believed it? Independent artist Ju Gosling discovers the dancer she was and is and reflects on her journey back to being a dance artist and developing an aesthetic that serves her purpose and difference read more Issue: Summer 2002 Date Posted: 05 Mar 2003

Back to the future CandoCo Dance Company celebrated its tenth birthday in 2001. Celeste Dandeker, Artistic Director, outlines the Company's history, ways of working and hopes for the future read more Issue: Summer 2002 Date Posted: 03 Mar 2003

The barefoot project Animated, Winter 1998. Tracking the impact of artists working in schools. David Oddie explains the background to the pioneering OFSTED review read more Issue: Issues 1996 - 2001 Date Posted: 03 Feb 2003

Dance medicine in action Animated, Winter 1998. Rachel-Anne Rist reflects on the final day of the International Association of Dance Medicine and Science's (IADMS) annual conference read more Issue: Issues 1996 - 2001 Date Posted: 03 Feb 2003

Elephants and mayflies Animated, Winter 1998. Sanjoy Roy takes a candid look at the ephemeral fate of many of today's choreographers in conversation with Shobana Jeyasingh read more Issue: Issues 1996 - 2001 Date Posted: 03 Feb 2003

Living history - the legacy of Harehills Animated, Winter 1998. Luke Judd talks to Nadine Senior about the importance of enabling young people to become artists in the deepest sense read more Issue: Issues 1996 - 2001 Date Posted: 03 Feb 2003

New frontiers Animated, Winter 1998. Lyn Paine contemplates the state of play of dance in schools and proffers some words of advice to artists-in-residence read more Issue: Issues 1996 - 2001 Date Posted: 03 Feb 2003

That vision thing Animated, Winter 1998. Chris Thomson ponders our 'institutional' visions - the navigation systems which redefine our arts practice in schools read more Issue: Issues 1996 - 2001 Date Posted: 03 Feb 2003

Towards a philosophy of teaching and learning Animated, Winter 1998. Igniting the candle - Marion Gough offers a personal perspective on the teaching of dance read more Issue: Issues 1996 - 2001 Date Posted: 03 Feb 2003

Unleashing the dancer within Animated, Winter 1998. With the introduction of a National Curriculum dance is now a legal entitlement for all pupils at Key Stages One and Two. Keyna Paul considers the challenges read more Issue: Issues 1996 - 2001 Date Posted: 03 Feb 2003

Your body is your country Animated, Winter 1998. Identity is a composite of cultural influences, personal experiences and inner feelings. Karen Hall talks about her work as an artist-in-residence read more Issue: Issues 1996 - 2001 Date Posted: 03 Feb 2003

Running on empty Animated, Summer 1998. Choreographer and performer Rosemary Lee embarks on an Arts Council research project designed to deepen and challenge her as an artist and creator read more Issue: Issues 1996 - 2001 Date Posted: 16 Jan 2003

The thinking body Animated, Summer 1998. Rivca Rubin and Steve Purcell challenge current thinking about arts training creating new possibilities for a dynamic and influential performance praxis read more Issue: Issues 1996 - 2001 Date Posted: 16 Jan 2003

Valuing dance Animated, Summer 1998. Francois Matarasso highlights the difficulties of defining success read more Issue: Issues 1996 - 2001 Date Posted: 16 Jan 2003

The implicit voice Animated, Autumn 1997. Pamela Harling-Challis is one of a new breed of artists embarking on dance research at Laban Centre London. Here she offers a personal insight read more Issue: Issues 1996 - 2001 Date Posted: 16 Jan 2003

In the risk business Animated, Autumn 1997. Anne Roberts reveals what makes audiences take risks read more Issue: Issues 1996 - 2001 Date Posted: 16 Jan 2003

Re-animation Animated, Autumn 1997. Ballet into the 21st Century, classical and contemporary. Jennifer Jackson ponders how the familiar can be remade strange? read more Issue: Issues 1996 - 2001 Date Posted: 16 Jan 2003

Unlimited access Animated, Autumn 1997. Suzanne Bull on the real access issues for people with disabilities read more Issue: Issues 1996 - 2001 Date Posted: 16 Jan 2003

Artistic storm troopers Animated, Summer 1998. In the changing arts climate there is an enhanced need for multi-faceted reflective arts practitioners. Lesley Younger offers some strategies read more Issue: Issues 1996 - 2001 Date Posted: 15 Jan 2003

By independent means Animated, Summer 1998. Ana Sanchez-Colberg reflects on the challenges that the current cultural climate poses to the working artist - choreographer... read more Issue: Issues 1996 - 2001 Date Posted: 15 Jan 2003

Creative solutions Animated, Summer 1998. This year sees the tenth anniversary of the Siobhan Davies Dance Company, a moment that invites reflection as Sanjoy Roy discovers... read more Issue: Issues 1996 - 2001 Date Posted: 15 Jan 2003

Daring and compelling Animated, Summer 1998. Darshan Singh Bhuller in conversation with Emma Manning read more Issue: Issues 1996 - 2001 Date Posted: 15 Jan 2003

Insider information Animated, Summer 1998. It takes time and leg-work to find people, meet with them and talk but it is increasingly important to give more voice to participants. Ruth Trueman reflects read more Issue: Issues 1996 - 2001 Date Posted: 15 Jan 2003

Is dance therapy? Animated, Summer 1998. Laurence Higgens offers a personal perspective read more Issue: Issues 1996 - 2001 Date Posted: 15 Jan 2003

It's not what you see, it's the way that you see it Animated, Summer 1998. Issues in documenting community dance by Jane Bacon read more Issue: Issues 1996 - 2001 Date Posted: 15 Jan 2003

Meeting whose needs? Animated, Summer 1998. As dance professionals we enjoy a high degree of autonomy, often paying little regard to monitoring or evaluating. Diane Amans asks whose needs are being met? read more Issue: Issues 1996 - 2001 Date Posted: 15 Jan 2003

New definitions Animated, Summer 1998. Lauren Scholey assesses the need to quantify and qualify our work to audiences and funders alike read more Issue: Issues 1996 - 2001 Date Posted: 15 Jan 2003

(A)way with words Animated Spring 2001. 'One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name.' (1) Claire Pencak reflects on the tyranny of abstraction read more Issue: Issues 1996 - 2001 Date Posted: 09 Jan 2003

Blinded by the sun Animated, Spring 2001. In action - The Ethiopian Gemini Trust by Tamara McLorg read more Issue: Issues 1996 - 2001 Date Posted: 09 Jan 2003

Internal landscapes Animated, Spring 2001. By its nature, contact often engenders a more holistic approach. Caroline Waters shares her thoughts on improvisation in performance read more Issue: Issues 1996 - 2001 Date Posted: 09 Jan 2003

Millipede Animated, Spring 2001. John Martin explains how the work of Pan-Centre for Intercultural Arts is engaging the community in high quality creativity read more Issue: Issues 1996 - 2001 Date Posted: 09 Jan 2003

Outsider performance Animated, Spring 2001. Finding a critical language for marginalized performance Liz Aggiss speaks frankly read more Issue: Issues 1996 - 2001 Date Posted: 09 Jan 2003

Scottish moves Animated, Spring 2001. In 1999, Scotland saw the re-establishment of the Scottish Parliament this has already led to additional investment in the arts, as Patricia Eckersley explains read more Issue: Issues 1996 - 2001 Date Posted: 09 Jan 2003

Sometimes unspoken Animated, Spring 2001. Lucy Moelwyn-Hughes looks back at V-TOL's ground-breaking summer intensive read more Issue: Issues 1996 - 2001 Date Posted: 09 Jan 2003

Made in Scotland Animated, Spring 1998. Six years after a major feasibility study was undertaken the new Scottish School of Contemporary Dance is about to be born, based at Dundee College. By Peter Royston read more Issue: Issues 1996 - 2001 Date Posted: 16 Dec 2002

Nomads, navigators and hothouses Animated, Spring 1998. Being part of The Place's Associate Artists Scheme is a bit like being put in a hothouse environment. Carol Brown explains read more Issue: Issues 1996 - 2001 Date Posted: 16 Dec 2002

Premiere league Animated, Spring 1998. Katy Dymoke uncovers Dance Division - a bold new initiative which aims to bring 360,000 males, face to face with dance - dispelling myths and prejudice conclusively read more Issue: Issues 1996 - 2001 Date Posted: 16 Dec 2002

Seen and heard Animated, Spring 1998. Penny Greenland speaks candidly about her fears and aspirations as JABADAO are poised on the brink of some pioneering new initiatives read more Issue: Issues 1996 - 2001 Date Posted: 16 Dec 2002

The Greenhouse Effect - the art and science of nurturing dancemakers Animated, Spring 1998. The Centre for Dance and Theatre Studies, Bretton Hall, with Yorkshire Dance have created a programme on Choreographic Development Jo Butterworth reports read more Issue: Issues 1996 - 2001 Date Posted: 16 Dec 2002

Tomorrow's world Animated, Spring 1998. Marie McCluskey on DansConnect, an exciting 18 month project which will enable Swindon Dance to reach out to a whole new generation of young people read more Issue: Issues 1996 - 2001 Date Posted: 16 Dec 2002

Bare hands broad feet Animated, Autumn 1998. Sheron Wray recently left Rambert to commit fulltime to her own project, JazzXchange Music and Dance Company. Here she reveals the processes involved read more Issue: Issues 1996 - 2001 Date Posted: 13 Dec 2002

Home grown Animated, Autumn 1998. Heidi Wilson puts Powys Dance under the spotlight read more Issue: Issues 1996 - 2001 Date Posted: 13 Dec 2002

Issues from the Greenhouse Animated, Autumn 1998. Jo Butterworth reflects on the international conference - The Greenhouse Effect and is left in no doubt that there is so much more to share read more Issue: Issues 1996 - 2001 Date Posted: 13 Dec 2002

La Ribot: a castillian codebreaker Animated, Autumn 1998. William Burroughs may have called language 'a virus', but in La Ribot's recent London based choreographic research, language is a code. By Lois Keidan read more Issue: Issues 1996 - 2001 Date Posted: 13 Dec 2002

Retracing our creative connections Animated, Autumn 1998. Dick McCaw explains how the International Workshop Festival meets artists needs, interests and preoccupations read more Issue: Issues 1996 - 2001 Date Posted: 13 Dec 2002

The future of Black British Dance Animated, Autumn 1998. Deborah Baddoo reports back on The Association of Dance of the African Diaspora's recent seminar read more Issue: Issues 1996 - 2001 Date Posted: 13 Dec 2002

The realisation of who I am Animated, Autumn 1998. Vivien Freakley, of the pioneering Black Choreographic Initiative talks about the support and development of choreographers at the cutting edge of black British dance read more Issue: Issues 1996 - 2001 Date Posted: 13 Dec 2002

Tracks in the community Animated, Summer 1999. Jane Hackett talks about BRB's strategic initiative Dance Track where opportunity, information and funding combine to create pioneering dance provision read more Issue: Issues 1996 - 2001 Date Posted: 09 Dec 2002

Powerful momentum Animated, Summer 2001. Anne Gallacher, talks about Birmingham Royal Ballet's radical move from separate artistic and education policies to a unified cultural policy read more Issue: Issues 1996 - 2001 Date Posted: 09 Dec 2002

A close-up on Canada Animated, Winter 1999. Toronto is currently a creative hothouse for dance on screen, Laura Taler and Kathleen Smith, provided an insight into the prolific Canadian scene read more Issue: Issues 1996 - 2001 Date Posted: 09 Dec 2002

All things to all people Animated, Winter 1999. Penny Greenland explains how management methods used to instigate change have become intrinsic in JABADAO's current practice read more Issue: Issues 1996 - 2001 Date Posted: 09 Dec 2002

Arts funding: new challenges and opportunities Animated, Winter 1999. Do we need a cultural policy asks Anthony Everitt? read more Issue: Issues 1996 - 2001 Date Posted: 09 Dec 2002

Dancing to the business beat Animated, Winter 1999. If you thought that dance was a world apart from current business practice - think again. Tim Stockil takes a candid look at what business can learn from dance read more Issue: Issues 1996 - 2001 Date Posted: 09 Dec 2002

Motion capture Animated, Winter 1999. Terry Braun talks to Lois Keidan about Digital Dancing read more Issue: Issues 1996 - 2001 Date Posted: 09 Dec 2002

Speaking two languages Animated Winter 1999. Here Rachel Rist captures some of the issues emerging from the International Association of Dance Medicine and Science Conference read more Issue: Issues 1996 - 2001 Date Posted: 09 Dec 2002

The seriously imaginative business of choreography Animated, Winter 1999. How can the subtle process of coordinating the space between dancers be made explicit and offered to the wider echelons of business and industry? Kate Flatt explains read more Issue: Issues 1996 - 2001 Date Posted: 09 Dec 2002

The two-way street Animated, Winter 1999. The arts are bringing something different to current business training practice. Toby Wilsher of Trestle Theatre Company explains read more Issue: Issues 1996 - 2001 Date Posted: 09 Dec 2002

Too dependant: independent dance Animated, Winter 1999. Clare Cooper takes a candid look at the dependency of the independent dance sector and why it is so bad at attracting portfolio income streams read more Issue: Issues 1996 - 2001 Date Posted: 09 Dec 2002

Notes of a dialogue Animated, Autumn 1999. "The body is the meeting point for what is wild and what is civilized... dance bites at the heel of what is unknowable."(1). By Doran George and Christy Adair read more Issue: Issues 1996 - 2001 Date Posted: 06 Dec 2002

Beauty from within Animated, Summer 1999. Lynda Robbins talks candidly of the distorted belief systems that are denying dancers and their bodies crucial energy and nutrients for health and performance read more Issue: Issues 1996 - 2001 Date Posted: 05 Dec 2002

Burn and Rave at the close of the day... Animated, Summer 1999. "I would rather 'pop-off' when I am in the dance group than lie alone in my room waiting... to die..." Sara Houston ponders the politics this radical project raises read more Issue: Issues 1996 - 2001 Date Posted: 05 Dec 2002

Keeping it up! Animated, Summer 1999. "Don't worry darling, you have high cheek bones and you will stay looking younger far longer than she will." By Emilyn Claid read more Issue: Issues 1996 - 2001 Date Posted: 05 Dec 2002

Lifelong learning Animated, Summer 1999. Ruth Churchill unravels the maze of current initiatives and highlights METIER's crucial role in achieving Lifelong Learning for all read more Issue: Issues 1996 - 2001 Date Posted: 05 Dec 2002

Like planes waiting to land Animated, Summer 1999. From Rambert, Mantis and Second Stride... to life as a solo artist. Ann Dickie's poignant account of how her career has come full circle. Still dancing at 53 read more Issue: Issues 1996 - 2001 Date Posted: 05 Dec 2002

Staying alive Animated, Summer 1999. Anna Carlisle's illuminating account of an unending voyage of artistic discovery read more Issue: Issues 1996 - 2001 Date Posted: 05 Dec 2002

The rough guide to reconstruction Animated, Summer 1999. Standing the test of time? As we cruise towards the millennium many artists have identified a need to revisit and reconstruct their work. By Liz Aggiss read more Issue: Issues 1996 - 2001 Date Posted: 05 Dec 2002

We who are still here Animated, Summer 1999. There are few systems for the nurture of the mature dancer. Fergus Early on the issues of moving in a territory without signposts read more Issue: Issues 1996 - 2001 Date Posted: 05 Dec 2002

Visual symphony Animated, Summer 2000. Carolyn Deby in conversation with Micha Bergese, the German-born, former star dancer from London Contemporary Dance Theatre read more Issue: Issues 1996 - 2001 Date Posted: 29 Nov 2002

Whose sound dies on the wind Animated, Summer 2000. Here, celebrated Canadian based dance critic, Max Wyman, reflects on his experience of dance criticism read more Issue: Issues 1996 - 2001 Date Posted: 29 Nov 2002

Layers and diversity - breaking boundaries in classical construction Animated, Summer 2000. Here, Jennifer Jackson, co-founder of Ballet Independents Group, explains how from simple beginnings Making Work revealed itself as a multi-layered opportunity read more Issue: Issues 1996 - 2001 Date Posted: 29 Nov 2002

Ancient art modern times Animated, Autumn 1999. Geetha Upadhyaya's illuminating account of the making of The Selfless Princess - a pioneering collaboration between classical Indian dance and digital art read more Issue: Issues 1996 - 2001 Date Posted: 29 Nov 2002

Arriving on the tide Animated, Autumn 1999. Brendan Keeney talks frankly about Take Me to the River, an inspired site-specific adventure in the heart of London read more Issue: Issues 1996 - 2001 Date Posted: 29 Nov 2002

Audiences of the present Animated, Autumn 1999. Susana Garcia and Nigel Warrack contemplate the value placed on childrens dance and report on Dance and Theatre Provision for Children in the UK and Abroad read more Issue: Issues 1996 - 2001 Date Posted: 29 Nov 2002

Beyond the marginal space Animated, Autumn 1999. Evaluating our dance practice is an area many of us have resisted but it is one which is vital to the development and survival of dance. Jane Bacon discusses read more Issue: Issues 1996 - 2001 Date Posted: 29 Nov 2002

Breaking the habit Animated, Autumn 1999. Adrian Heathfield discusses the unruly work of Wendy Houston read more Issue: Issues 1996 - 2001 Date Posted: 29 Nov 2002

Continuing to investigate our voice Animated, Autumn 1999. Fiona Millward talks about Zone 3 - a revolutionary approach to the long-term development of the independent dance sector read more Issue: Issues 1996 - 2001 Date Posted: 29 Nov 2002

Generating regeneration Animated, Autumn 1999. Karen Gallagher talks about Merseyside Dance Initiative MDI's pioneering strategy which is placing dance firmly in the minds of local government policy makers read more Issue: Issues 1996 - 2001 Date Posted: 29 Nov 2002

Is it time to invest in success? Animated, Autumn 1999. Marie McCluskey and Jackie Fahy unpack DansConnect - an innovative performance-led initiative - reaching a staggering 6000 young people read more Issue: Issues 1996 - 2001 Date Posted: 29 Nov 2002

Making health matter Animated, Autumn 1999. Jessica Shenton highlights the latest research projects which constitute part of Dance UK's innovative Healthier Dancer Programme read more Issue: Issues 1996 - 2001 Date Posted: 29 Nov 2002

Bare bones - the facts about the silent epidemic: osteoporosis Animated, Summer 2000. One of the most prominent issues facing us all is bone health. Dr Nicola Keay highlights the findings of two research studies read more Issue: Issues 1996 - 2001 Date Posted: 26 Nov 2002

Botched job? Animated, Summer 2000. From fraught containment to the vulnerable, wild and... unknown. The making of Rosemary Butcher's SCAN by Niki Gladstone read more Issue: Issues 1996 - 2001 Date Posted: 26 Nov 2002

Canned dance - developing dance for camera in the South East Animated, Summer 2000. When Linda Jasper became director of South East Dance she inherited the beginnings of a dance for camera programme. Here she talks about the process read more Issue: Issues 1996 - 2001 Date Posted: 26 Nov 2002

Coaching - developing the person Animated, Summer 2000. Rivca Rubin reveals how to enter someone else's model of the world gracefully read more Issue: Issues 1996 - 2001 Date Posted: 26 Nov 2002

Environmental issues Animated, Summer 2000. David Massingham takes time out to reflect on his first year jumping the fence from full-time choreographer to National Dance Agency artistic director read more Issue: Issues 1996 - 2001 Date Posted: 26 Nov 2002

Punctuating space Animated, Summer 2000. Here Peppy Hills explains how her collaboration with a landscape architect is enabling young people with severe and complex learning needs read more Issue: Issues 1996 - 2001 Date Posted: 26 Nov 2002

Arts zones Animated, Autumn 2000. Education Action Zones encourage innovative ways to raise achievement in schools. Project director Dee Palmer-Jones explains read more Issue: Issues 1996 - 2001 Date Posted: 07 Nov 2002

Beyond a Sympathetic Response Animated, Autumn 2000. Nicole Thomson, artistic director of Anjali Dance Company, talks about her life and aspirations read more Issue: Issues 1996 - 2001 Date Posted: 07 Nov 2002

Brain waves Animated, Autumn 2000. Brigitte Doyle talks firsthand about her experience of translating Chris Dickinson's radical approach to Brain Based Learning read more Issue: Issues 1996 - 2001 Date Posted: 07 Nov 2002

Embracing difference Animated, Autumn 2000. Judy Bird on the journey Salford and Trafford's Disability Arts Initiative has travelled in the creation of an accredited arts programme for people with learning difficulties read more Issue: Issues 1996 - 2001 Date Posted: 07 Nov 2002

From values to practice Animated, Autumn 2000. Has our youth dance practice remained unchallenged for too long? Sue Akroyd raises some serious issues for consideration read more Issue: Issues 1996 - 2001 Date Posted: 07 Nov 2002

Getting hooked Animated, Autumn 2000. Increasing opportunities for artists in schools. Mark Robertson believes we are now beginning to understand what good practice is and what it looks like read more Issue: Issues 1996 - 2001 Date Posted: 07 Nov 2002

Group dynamic Animated, Autumn 2000. Groups have enormous energy for both creativity and destructiveness. If that can be harnessed the benefit is likely to be considerable. Julia Buckroyd explains read more Issue: Issues 1996 - 2001 Date Posted: 07 Nov 2002

New order Animated, Autumn 2000. Veronica Jobbins provides an update on the new National Curriculum read more Issue: Issues 1996 - 2001 Date Posted: 07 Nov 2002

Physical text Animated, Autumn 2000. Is it jazz? Is it contemporary or even Afrikan? Kwesi Johnson reveals how he is expanding body language and dynamics into physical text read more Issue: Issues 1996 - 2001 Date Posted: 07 Nov 2002

Silent revolution Animated, Autumn 2000. 'How many people know they are dancing their last dance? Irene did. Judy Smith celebrates the extraordinary life of Irene Dilkes read more Issue: Issues 1996 - 2001 Date Posted: 07 Nov 2002

When arts means business Animated, Autumn 2000. 'Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art.'(1) Susanne Burns on throwing away the old thinking about art and business not mixing read more Issue: Issues 1996 - 2001 Date Posted: 07 Nov 2002

Moments and memories Animated, Summer 2001. Ruby Worth details moments and memories from The Family Project read more Issue: Issues 1996 - 2001 Date Posted: 17 Oct 2002

A personal view From an aspiring vet, to working at the Post Office for nine years, independent dancer and actor David Toole talks candidly about his extraordinary journey into dance and performance read more Issue: Summer 2002 Date Posted: 17 Oct 2002

A view from the arts funding system Sian Williams, disability arts development officer for London Arts, reviews the ways in which the arts funding system is attempting to change the landscape for disabled people and artists read more Issue: Summer 2002 Date Posted: 17 Oct 2002

An evolution in practice Integrated practice: History, background and the future by Adam Benjamin read more Issue: Summer 2002 Date Posted: 17 Oct 2002

Ah! Europa Animated, Winter 2001. Cultural distinction versus dreary conformity by John Ashford read more Issue: Issues 1996 - 2001 Date Posted: 16 Oct 2002

Arts at large Animated, Winter 2001. An international context by Pauline Tambling, executive director, research & development, Arts Council of England read more Issue: Issues 1996 - 2001 Date Posted: 16 Oct 2002

Audible breath Animated, Winter 2001. A sense of place - Ireland's new research centre by Mary Brady read more Issue: Issues 1996 - 2001 Date Posted: 16 Oct 2002

Between the margins Animated, Winter 2001. Anti-dancing or antidote? by Jane Greenfield read more Issue: Issues 1996 - 2001 Date Posted: 16 Oct 2002

Body politics Animated, Winter 2001. Bulgaria - a well kept secret? Dessy Gavrilova reveals read more Issue: Issues 1996 - 2001 Date Posted: 16 Oct 2002

Inclusion, integration, intuition Animated, Winter 2001. Here artistic director of Blue Eyed Soul, Rachel Freeman, talks about the company's work and the increased recognition it is gaining read more Issue: Issues 1996 - 2001 Date Posted: 16 Oct 2002

Into interculturalism Animated, Winter 2001. Ghislaine Boddington on choreographers raising concerns for dance in an international and intercultural context read more Issue: Issues 1996 - 2001 Date Posted: 16 Oct 2002

Of dance, cities, the globe Animated, Winter 2001. Our bodies are our history - our movement, our account - by Ana Sanchez-Colberg and Eugenio Cueto Barragan read more Issue: Issues 1996 - 2001 Date Posted: 16 Oct 2002

Out in the cold Animated, Winter 2001. Is Britain the poor relation in Europe in terms of international programming? Niki Pollard talks to Rose Fenton, festival director of LIFT read more Issue: Issues 1996 - 2001 Date Posted: 16 Oct 2002

Outward bound Animated, Winter 2001. As Gregory Nash moves on from The British Council to head up Ausdance New South Wales he reflects on the state of dance in contemporary Britain read more Issue: Issues 1996 - 2001 Date Posted: 16 Oct 2002

Rising above worlds Animated, Winter 2001. Middle Eastern dance - surviving centuries, assimilating and sampling many global influences by Philip Walker read more Issue: Issues 1996 - 2001 Date Posted: 16 Oct 2002

Vive la difference Animated, Winter 2001. Infinite possibilities for expressivity by Dick McCaw read more Issue: Issues 1996 - 2001 Date Posted: 16 Oct 2002

All the king's men Animated, Summer 2001. Dylan Quinn speaks candidly about All the king's men - a dance/physical theatre work for camera designed for use in prisons read more Issue: Issues 1996 - 2001 Date Posted: 16 Oct 2002

Apart from the Road 2 Animated, Summer 2001. The relationship between art and community work is subtle and complex, as Catherine Hale discovers in an interview with Rosemary Lee read more Issue: Issues 1996 - 2001 Date Posted: 16 Oct 2002

Apart from the Road 1 Animated, Summer 2001. Laraine Fisher on a collection of whispered poems and miniature dances drawn from the urban landscape at the edge of East London... read more Issue: Issues 1996 - 2001 Date Posted: 16 Oct 2002

Barging in Animated, Summer 2001. Karen Gallagher offers an insight into the transient audiences on the Leeds to Liverpool Canal read more Issue: Issues 1996 - 2001 Date Posted: 16 Oct 2002

Highly visible in the making Animated, Summer 2001. Capitalising on local environments by Lois Taylor read more Issue: Issues 1996 - 2001 Date Posted: 16 Oct 2002

People matters Animated, Summer 2001. Leigh Verrill-Rhys provides an insight into dancers as artists as people read more Issue: Issues 1996 - 2001 Date Posted: 16 Oct 2002

Plastic fever Animated Summer 2001. Clubbin', pullin', gettin' down and a whole lot more by Maxine Doyle read more Issue: Issues 1996 - 2001 Date Posted: 16 Oct 2002

Shadow space Animated, Summer 2001. Exploring the sculptural qualities of the moving figure by Assis Carreiro, Director, DanceEast read more Issue: Issues 1996 - 2001 Date Posted: 16 Oct 2002

Sssh! The Bunker Project Animated, Summer 2001. Amid bluebell woods is Kevedon Hatch... Fleur Derbyshire uncovers some of the bunker's darker secrets... read more Issue: Issues 1996 - 2001 Date Posted: 16 Oct 2002

Target audience: the dead. The sacred and Essex man Animated, Summer 2001. There is nothing new in commissioning artists to make site-specific work and what might result could be rubbish. There are no rules says Anthony Roberts read more Issue: Issues 1996 - 2001 Date Posted: 16 Oct 2002

Time left over Animated, Summer 2001. Martin Wilson reflects upon the role of the artist within the context of a specialist mental health trust where patients are valued members of the community read more Issue: Issues 1996 - 2001 Date Posted: 16 Oct 2002

Working the boundaries Animated, Summer 2001. Looking at the issue of inclusivity or exclusivity by Claire Russ and Matthew Hawkins read more Issue: Issues 1996 - 2001 Date Posted: 16 Oct 2002

From the editor Ken Bartlett, Director, Foundation for Community Dance read more Issue: Autumn 2002 Date Posted: 14 Oct 2002

Out of Reach Animated, Autumn 2001. Dr Denise Peerbhoy, Jacqueline Birchall and Alicia Smith document the capacity of movement to influence the well-being and quality of life - dance meets social inclusion read more Issue: Issues 1996 - 2001 Date Posted: 01 Aug 2002

Creative vision Animated, Autumn 2001. The greatest poverty faced by children in the UK today is arguably the poverty of aspiration and imagination. Peter Jenkinson OBE addresses the challenges read more Issue: Issues 1996 - 2001 Date Posted: 31 Jul 2002

River of knowledge Animated, Autumn 2001. Janet Smith, Artistic Director of Scottish Dance Theatre, reflects on the wider ecology of dance, on issues of heritage and evolution read more Issue: Issues 1996 - 2001 Date Posted: 31 Jul 2002

Feet on the ground, wings in the air Animated, Autumn 2001. Penny Greenland was recently awarded an MBE for her services to dance. Here Greenland (the cynic) interviews Greenland (the impassioned) read more Issue: Issues 1996 - 2001 Date Posted: 31 Jul 2002

Primary tool Animated, Autumn 2001. Movement dance therapy aids emotional and physical integration. Here Sara Bannerman-Haig attempts to demystify some of the processes involved read more Issue: Issues 1996 - 2001 Date Posted: 31 Jul 2002

Mission possible Animated, Autumn 2001. Working with technology in my professional performance work has been a slow, careful process,' explains choreographer Darren Johnston to Kari O'Nions read more Issue: Issues 1996 - 2001 Date Posted: 31 Jul 2002

Sustainable dance Animated, Autumn 2001. 'A living theatre of plants and people' (1) Antony Waller talks about the Dancemakers initiative at the Eden Project, Cornwall's eighth wonder of the world read more Issue: Issues 1996 - 2001 Date Posted: 31 Jul 2002

Dance and cultural identity Animated, Autumn 2001. Dr Andree Grau, on directing a research project South Asian Dance in Britain: negotiating cultural identity through dance (SADiB). read more Issue: Issues 1996 - 2001 Date Posted: 31 Jul 2002

Dance persisters Animated, Autumn 2001. Charlotte Vincent talks about living and working in Sheffield read more Issue: Issues 1996 - 2001 Date Posted: 31 Jul 2002

Surreptitious segregation Animated, Autumn 2001. Catherine Hale on the riveting experience of Magpie Dance Company in collaboration with Urban Dance Company at the Bloomsbury Theatre in London read more Issue: Issues 1996 - 2001 Date Posted: 31 Jul 2002

forWard motion! Animated, Autumn 2001. How can dance engage with young people in hospital? Here Rachel Elliott lifts the lid on forWard motion! the new work she directs for Green Candle Dance Company read more Issue: Issues 1996 - 2001 Date Posted: 31 Jul 2002

Symphony By bringing excluded individuals back into the frame of human reference, positive change can be given a fair chance. Here Suz Broughton talks about the impact of dance in HMP Holloway read more Issue: Spring 2002 Date Posted: 04 Jul 2002

Smashing stereotypes What began as intensive educational work in schools transformed into a profound artistic experience. Michael Platt reflects on what happens when the artist and teacher fuse read more Issue: Spring 2002 Date Posted: 04 Jul 2002

Dwelling space Carol Brown contemplates the language and placement of architecture, which informs Machine for Living, a collaboration between herself and visual artist, Esther Rolinson read more Issue: Winter 2002 Date Posted: 04 Jul 2002

Daring to resist Disability and dance debated by Susan Jeff, Claire Russ, Catherine Hale, Shan Maclennan, Julia Curruthers, Donald Hutera, Catherine Hale and Cindy Gower read more Issue: Winter 2002 Date Posted: 04 Jul 2002

Common knowledge Because arts in health work proceeds from the personal it poses subtle problems for evaluation. Mike White explains why joined up practice is crucial read more Issue: Winter 2002 Date Posted: 04 Jul 2002

Going to the edge Creating a cultural quarter in King's Cross by Sue Hoyle with Theresa Beattie and Veronica Lewis read more Issue: Winter 2002 Date Posted: 04 Jul 2002

In it's purest form Gaby Agis and Joe Moran offer a rare insight into the work of Joan Skinner and a system, which is fast becoming mainstream read more Issue: Winter 2002 Date Posted: 04 Jul 2002

Transcending boundaries Leon Robinson speaks about fulfilling a life's dream to visit the Schomburg Centre for Research of Black Culture in New York where he unexpectedly found himself guest of honour read more Issue: Winter 2002 Date Posted: 04 Jul 2002

Rich spaces to engage our senses Dance Base - Dick Matchett tracks the heart-stopping journey from the projects infancy to international recognition and architectural acclaim read more Issue: Winter 2002 Date Posted: 04 Jul 2002

One-stop shop Jacqueline Rose, head of London Arts' Dance Unit talks with Hans de Kretser and Carmel Smith about an indispensable new resource created specifically for the UK dance community read more Issue: Winter 2002 Date Posted: 04 Jul 2002

In search of a phantom Here Shobana Jeyasingh speaks candidly about her new work Web where Bharatha Natyam is used as the connective tissue for the manufactured dancer read more Issue: Winter 2002 Date Posted: 04 Jul 2002

Cultural regrounding Here Diane Mitchell recounts her South African sabbatical in which she engaged and exchanged with dance artists and managers in creative practice and dialogue read more Issue: Winter 2002 Date Posted: 04 Jul 2002

A strategic gem Hannah Curr provides the low down on the Lancashire dance ecology read more Issue: Winter 2002 Date Posted: 04 Jul 2002

Exploring transformations Dr Alessandra Lopez y Royo unpacks the thinking behind the new Research Centre for Cross-cultural Music and Dance Performance funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Board read more Issue: Spring 2002 Date Posted: 02 Jul 2002

Medicine for the soul Global artists redefine their pathways by Fleur Derbyshire read more Issue: Spring 2002 Date Posted: 26 Jun 2002

Counsellor, coach or workshop leader? Duncan Fraser asks whether workshop leaders have anything to learn from Carl Rogers, the founding father of counselling read more Issue: Spring 2002 Date Posted: 26 Jun 2002

From the editor Ken Bartlett, Director, Foundation for Community Dance read more Issue: Summer 2002 Date Posted: 14 Jun 2002

Recovering heart Here Miranda Tufnell speaks candidly of the corrosive effect of lack of movement and of the body's need to reconnect with the world around read more Issue: Spring 2002 Date Posted: 27 May 2002

The politic body Here Dr Nick Sheppard and Nicola Visser reveal how South African based Tshwaragano Dance Company are contesting difference read more Issue: Spring 2002 Date Posted: 27 May 2002

Dancing differently? by Paddy Masefield OBE read more Issue: Spring 2002 Date Posted: 27 May 2002

Taking control? Dancing Differently? - a national conference about dance and disabled people, February 2002. Here Ken Bartlett unpacks the thinking behind the conference read more Issue: Spring 2002 Date Posted: 18 Apr 2002

From the editor Scilla Dyke MBE read more Issue: Spring 2002 Date Posted: 13 Apr 2002

From the editor Scilla Dyke read more Issue: Winter 2002 Date Posted: 13 Jan 2002

A generation game Frank McConnell argues that although time may have matured us, there is still plenty of work to do read more Issue: Summer 2006 Date Posted: 31 Dec 1999

Critical faculties Donald Hutera goes down under read more Issue: Autumn 2006 Date Posted: 31 Dec 1999

Three perspectives on FLAG 2006 Frank Bock, Lea Anderson and Jackie Mortimer on the Flag Project 2006 and Brockhill Park Performing Arts College, its pupils and the Featherstonehaughs and the Cholmondeleys read more Issue: Winter 2007 Date Posted: 31 Dec 1999

Thinking habits Animated, Spring 1998. So how do you think? Brian Thomas dispels some myths read more Issue: Issues 1996 - 2001 Date Posted: 31 Dec 1999

Reflections on conversation Luke Pell, Education Manager for CandoCo, talked with young delegates at Youth Dance England's conference and here reflects on what they had to say read more Issue: Summer 2007 Date Posted: 31 Dec 1999

Hip hype The list is long, the styles diverse - Brenda Edwards gives us the low down on the hype surrounding Hip, a nine day event celebrating black dance read more Issue: Winter 2002 Date Posted: 31 Dec 1999

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