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People Dancing Creative Thinking Sessions1.What are the challenges/specific needs within your regionthat need to be addressed in order to get people dancing?
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Spaces
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Need for community dance space for rehearsing, performing and socialising
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Need for spaces for over 25s to go to dance
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Affordable
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‘Safe’ spaces to feel comfortable participating
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Engaging participants and audiences
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Accessing communities
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Getting people motivated
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Need to challenge perceptions around ability and participation
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Maintaining interest
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Communication/Awareness
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Need to challenge how people talk about dance
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Need to challenge stereotypes around dance forms and participants
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Availability of dance artists/experts
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Need to understand and map the existing dance offer before identifyingopportunities
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Internal buy in needed from local authorities to ensure dance is on the agenda
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Training
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Retention of talent
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Opening up opportunities in new sectors e.g. health
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Brokering partnerships
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Identifying Partners
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Facilitating exchanges
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Opening dance up to other partnerships
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Geography of region
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Rurality
Accessibility
Transport links within the sub region and beyond
Population: What defines mass participation?
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Size of region
Avoiding duplication, joining up for maximum impact
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Variance within sub-regions
Disparate offer
Different levels of engagement and need
2.What opportunities could People Dancing provide to addressthose needs/challenges?
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Spaces
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Open up venues traditionally not used for dance
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Creating the capacity to work in challenging settings
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Touring stage could overcome some issues around getting people through thedoor
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Engaging participants and audiences
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Find out how people want to dance, and when. Enable people to be involved increating their own dance experiences
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New opportunities for disabled service users to play a meaningful part
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Creating unexpected, mass participation events
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Raising the profile, reach and the credibility of dance, exploring the link with theCultural Olympiad
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Communication/Awareness
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Circulate the contact details for attendees at the People Dancing launches
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Provision of a web-based database/bulletin board to identify partners
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Connecting media, dance deliverers and participants
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Signposting to join opportunities up
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Linkage with indicators
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Case studies of best practice elsewhere e.g. GP referral in Manchester
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Getting information to young people
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Providing delivery organisations with the feeling that they are part of something,feeling special
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Central resource pulling everything together and signposting people to danceactivities/events throughout the region
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Training
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Equipping dance leaders to work in communities
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Promoting opportunities for dance professionals to stay within the sub-region
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Develop skills of disabled choreographers in the region
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