About Just Dance!
Community dance contributes to a wide range of health agendas including managing illness, care of the sick or frail, health education and promotion, community development and offering alternative lifestyle choices (Foundation for Community Dance, 2004). In recent years, there has been an increasing number of projects where young people have worked alongside adults in inter-generational work, thus embedding them within their communities and building bridges between their experience and that of older generations.
With the above issues in mind and, after consultation with the community, Stroud District Dance Focus Group, or Just Dance!, was formed in 2005; the group is a partnership of Stroud District Council, Gloucestershire Dance, Stroud District Youth Services, Art Shape and local dance practitioners.
Dance is socially cohesive and can be delivered to all ages, abilities and genders. Just Dance! is for everyone and aims to increase awareness of provision / practice of dance opportunities within the Stroud district.
A snapshot of the main Just Dance! objectives:
- To work in partnership and act as a network for dance practitioners and participants in Stroud district
- To include links to useful websites and information for dance practitioners re: CRB, child protection, licensing laws
- To increase and sustain participation, continuity and progression and equality of dance opportunity in Stroud district
- To act as an information point for the public looking for dance classes / teachers and events in their area
- To promote training workshops in the county for better employment opportunities, professional development and skills retention within Stroud community dance sector
- To continue to raise the profile and understanding of the benefits of community dance.
Outcomes (1 - 3 years)
Practitioners
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Participants
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