This week I am at the People Dancing: Foundation for community dance conference https://www.communitydance.org.uk
I am going to try to write a little about the sessions I go to. Today was only half a day. I went to a workshop by Natasha Gilmore which was practical and shared some movement exercises/games to use dance to brake down barriers. Natasha works with refugee and migrant communities in Scotland so often her workshops are about involving people getting them to be joyful moving together.
I was able to go to the whole of a session on Older People Dancing: Perspectives on creative practice.
What struck me in terms of BAPP is just how much Community Dance history there is to discover if you are just beginning to work in the field and by just beginning I mean only been doing community dance work for the last five or so years. The some of the artists people talking on this panel have been doing work with older people and multi-generational work for 29 /30 years! There is such a rich history to find out about. Fergus Early spoke about the range of training, performance, and facilitation of dance for older people (and multigenerational groups)his company engages in - I used to work with him in his company Green Candle Dance Company.
http://www.greencandledance.com
There was also Libby Costello who talked about a programme at the RAD. Vina Oberlander talked about the work she has been doing making work for people with dementia. The project she talked about was Curious Shoes.
/http://www.heartsminds.org.uk/outreach/community/curious-shoes/
Lorna Murray talked about the work Scottish Ballet are doing with older peoples classes and performance. Rachel Bar spoke about work Canada National Ballet is doing in Canada. Because Canada is so big they are running classes with dance teacher leading from class over internet. Exploring what this means and can offer.
Carrie Washington talked about her recent project Ignite
http://beee-creative.co.uk/wp/dance-ignite-2017-hcc/
I am going to try to write a little about the sessions I go to. Today was only half a day. I went to a workshop by Natasha Gilmore which was practical and shared some movement exercises/games to use dance to brake down barriers. Natasha works with refugee and migrant communities in Scotland so often her workshops are about involving people getting them to be joyful moving together.
I was able to go to the whole of a session on Older People Dancing: Perspectives on creative practice.
What struck me in terms of BAPP is just how much Community Dance history there is to discover if you are just beginning to work in the field and by just beginning I mean only been doing community dance work for the last five or so years. The some of the artists people talking on this panel have been doing work with older people and multi-generational work for 29 /30 years! There is such a rich history to find out about. Fergus Early spoke about the range of training, performance, and facilitation of dance for older people (and multigenerational groups)his company engages in - I used to work with him in his company Green Candle Dance Company.
http://www.greencandledance.com
There was also Libby Costello who talked about a programme at the RAD. Vina Oberlander talked about the work she has been doing making work for people with dementia. The project she talked about was Curious Shoes.
/http://www.heartsminds.org.uk/outreach/community/curious-shoes/
Lorna Murray talked about the work Scottish Ballet are doing with older peoples classes and performance. Rachel Bar spoke about work Canada National Ballet is doing in Canada. Because Canada is so big they are running classes with dance teacher leading from class over internet. Exploring what this means and can offer.
Carrie Washington talked about her recent project Ignite
http://beee-creative.co.uk/wp/dance-ignite-2017-hcc/
