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Dance Education

Studying and Careers in Dance Medicine and Science

Studying and Careers in Dance Medicine and Science
‘Everything We Loved About Dance Was Taken’ The place of dance in UK education

‘Everything We Loved About Dance Was Taken’ The place of dance in UK education
Taking it Higher: Dance in HE

Taking it Higher: Dance in HE
Representation in Dance Education (RIDE)

Representation in Dance Education (RIDE)
Why study dance at school or college?

Why study dance at school or college?
A guide to careers in dance

A guide to careers in dance
Key Stage 4 Dance Qualifications

Key Stage 4 Dance Qualifications
Message In A Bottle Key Stage 3 and 4 Lesson Plan

Message In A Bottle Key Stage 3 and 4 Lesson Plan
Guidance: How Dance can Support your School’s Artsmark Journey

Guidance: How Dance can Support your School’s Artsmark Journey
Dance Education, a Guide for Governors and Trustees

Dance Education, a Guide for Governors and Trustees
NYDC’s MADHEAD Key Stage 3 lesson plan

NYDC’s MADHEAD Key Stage 3 lesson plan
Dance circle with young people holding hands with the joint hands in the air. ca,era focused on the teacher with hip popped to the side and smiling. All wearing black PE kit in a sports hall.

Dance Bingo activity
global majority female dancer lunging to the left with albow pointed in the air. In front of soft focus trees and wooden gate. Wearing brown long sleeved t-shirt and flowered flared trousers.

Stardust: Developing Choreography KS4 & 5 and Youth Companies working with 15 yrs+
Female global majority dancer with curly hair flicked in a pony tail teaching a hip hop class. students copying the movement behind all wearing bright colours in dance studio

Dance Teaching Pathways: Guidance on routes into teaching and qualifications
black male dancer teaching a group of young people to dance. all in a running man position wearing athletic clothing in a dance studio.

Dance Teaching Pathways: Flow Chart
Female global majority dancer with curly hair tied back teaching a hip hop class. Students copying the lean back movement behind all wearing purple t-shirts in brightly lit dance studio

Dance Teacher and Freelance Artist Case Studies
Group of teenage female dancers performing street dance infront of large building with circles. All wearing matching grey hoodies

GCSE, AS and A Level Dance Statistics
primary school boys and girls all reaching up to the sky in a sports hall

Delivering Dance through the PE and Sports Premium Funding
black male dance artist teaching room of young people, teacher and students in deep lunges with one hand touching the floor the other in a wing shape. Teacher wearing black students out of focus wearing purple t-shirts.

National Youth Dance Company’s MADHEAD Scheme of Learning
Message In A Bottle Scheme of Learning

Message In A Bottle Scheme of Learning
Free Yourself, Creativity has no boundaries!

Free Yourself, Creativity has no boundaries!
Best Practice at Trinity School Article

Best Practice at Trinity School Article
Claire Pring Bloom's Taxonomy

Claire Pring Bloom's Taxonomy
Supporting and understanding safeguarding

Supporting and understanding safeguarding
golbal majority dance teacher sitting on her knees speaking to a room full of dance students gesturing her hands, with mirror reflecting the students behind her. Wearing red trousers and colourful jacket.

Dear Dance Teacher’s Agony Aunt - Burnout
Young female dancer infront of Glasgow coucil building with large pillars. Legs lunched arms above the head. White female dance with long brown hair wearing checked shirt blue top and white trousers

Creating Calm During Chaos
young dancers rehearing in dance studio. All with one one leg up and one arm straight leaning to the left. Mix of male and female dancers with different ethnicities. Wearing comfy casual clothes

Where can dance take me?
teenage male dance teacher reaching up to the sky with both arms teaching young boy dancer who is mirroring the arms in the air. In sports hall both wearing black PE kit

Dance Frameworks - Early Years
teachers and dance students excitedly talking together in black PE kit with sports hall

Dance Frameworks - Key Stage 1
white female teacher with teenage student sitting on a sports hall floor with hands gesturing. All wearing black with linden dance logo on the t-shirts.

Dance Frameworks - Key Stage 2
young dancers white and global majority, male and female, sitting crossed legged smiling and listening.

Dance Frameworks - Key Stage 3
yong white male red haired dancer wearing blue tracksuit bottoms and black t-shirt. leaning back in a running man position on grassey hill in front of Trinity Laban University building

Dance Frameworks - Key Stage 4
Global majority female dancer with nude coloured crop top with black trousers. One arm up and the other holding her up from the floor with one extended leg and one bent leg. White mirrored dance studio

Dance Frameworks - Key Stage 5
teenage male dance teacher on one leg reaching to the top left of the image teaching young boy dancer who is mirroring the arms and the legs. In sports hall both wearing black PE kit

Dance through science: Key Stages 1 and 2 Lesson Plan
7 female dancers sitting crossed legged with one arm in the air. one male dancer infront laying on the floor with knees up arched back and hand infront of face. In a dance stucio with wooden floors and black walls

Endeavour: The Olympics and sport as a stimulus for choreography Key Stage 4 Lesson Plan
Discover! Creative Careers: Dance Panel Q&A

Discover! Creative Careers: Dance Panel Q&A
Eleven young male and female dancers huddled in a group on wooden steps moving around eachother with stretched arms. Causually dressed.

Happy Birthday GCSE Dance
Dance circle with young people holding hands with the joint hands in the air. All wearing black PE kit in a sports hall.

Dance in Schools - Footwear
Politically Speaking Key Stage 3 Lesson Plan

Politically Speaking Key Stage 3 Lesson Plan
NEW CPD for Dance Teachers Snippet 1: What is Dance

NEW CPD for Dance Teachers Snippet 1: What is Dance
CPD for Dance Teachers Snippet 2: Developing students’ practical skills

CPD for Dance Teachers Snippet 2: Developing students’ practical skills
CPD for Dance Teachers Snippet 3: Building Performance skills and developing your students' confidence

CPD for Dance Teachers Snippet 3: Building Performance skills and developing your students' confidence
CPD for Dance Teachers Snippet 4: Setting High Expectations and Developing a Strong Dance Culture within a School Setting

CPD for Dance Teachers Snippet 4: Setting High Expectations and Developing a Strong Dance Culture within a School Setting
CPD for Dance Teachers Snippet 5: Developing Appreciation Skills

CPD for Dance Teachers Snippet 5: Developing Appreciation Skills
CPD for Dance Teachers Snippet 6: Safe Dance Practice in an Education Setting

CPD for Dance Teachers Snippet 6: Safe Dance Practice in an Education Setting
One Dance UK in conversation with Dr Imogen Aujla

One Dance UK in conversation with Dr Imogen Aujla
Backwards and Forwards Key Stage 4 Lesson Plan

Backwards and Forwards Key Stage 4 Lesson Plan
Using Retrieval Practice effectively within dance lessons

Using Retrieval Practice effectively within dance lessons
Critical Dance Pedagogy

Critical Dance Pedagogy
Exploring behaviour in dance lessons

Exploring behaviour in dance lessons
All About Me: EYFS and Key Stage 1 Lesson Plan

All About Me: EYFS and Key Stage 1 Lesson Plan
Carnival Time! Key Stage 2 Lesson Plan

Carnival Time! Key Stage 2 Lesson Plan
One Dance UK in Conversation with Justine Reeve AKA the Dance Teacher’s Agony Aunt

One Dance UK in Conversation with Justine Reeve AKA the Dance Teacher’s Agony Aunt
Global majority dance teaching kneeling down with 4 young female dance students gesturing with arms out wide with a mood board in front of them in a dance studio.

Electricity: Key Stages 1 and 2 Lesson Plan
3 young female dancers infront of Machester skyline reaching out towards the camera. two girls wearing yellow tops black leggings and one girl wearing pink top black leggings

Transport: Early Years Foundation Stages Lesson plan
teenage male dance teacher lunging with one arm in the air teaching young boy dancer lunging with the mirrored arm in the air. In sports hall both wearing black PE kit

Boudicca – the Warrior Queen: Key Stage 2 Scheme of Work
Painting of young female hiphop dancer

NEW Year 1 'Simply Dance - Actions' Scheme of Learning
painting of young global majority female dance of the african diaspora dancer

NEW Dance Games
Painting of young contemporary male dancer jumping

NEW Year 3 'Simply Dance - Dynamics' Scheme of Learning
Painting of young global majority male voguer

NEW Year 5 'Simply Dance - Relationships' Scheme of Learning
Illustration of Global majority male breaker with a beard in break dancing pose

NEW Spotting Excellence in Dance
Painting of young contemporary female dancer flicking hair up

NEW 'Simply Dance – Actions' Lesson Plan 1 (ages 5 – 6 years)
Illustration of Blonde white freckled Wheel Chair

NEW Dynamic Words
Illustration of Blue Haired Plus Sized Tatooed dancer

NEW Action Words
Illustion of red hair LGBTQ+ voguer wearing heals

NEW Dance Posters
Painting of young female ballerina with limb difference

NEW Dance Terms Glossary
Painting of young female south asian dancer

NEW Dance Teaching Framework for Primary Education
Illustration of aerialist global majority dancer hanging from red silks

NEW Dance Teaching Starter Kit
One Dance UK in Conversation with Claire Pring

One Dance UK in Conversation with Claire Pring
NEW! CPD for Dance Teachers Snippet 7: Careers in Dance

NEW! CPD for Dance Teachers Snippet 7: Careers in Dance

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