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Special Focus on Health Teaching Mentoring Training • Strength training for • Rambert dancers come full • Trailblazers Champions Centre for Advanced Training female dancers circle with Ghost Dances prepare their work students collaborate with Alvin • Safeguarding mental health • Pullout resources for teachers • Jaivant Patel shares his Ailey American Dance Theater in the creative process mentee experience • Dance Medicine and Science Expert Panel announced The One Dance UK Magazine Issue 2, Spring 2017 One – The One Dance UK Magazine Staff Trustees Funders and Contents Supporters Welcome 3 Welcome by Andrew Hurst Andrew Hurst Sue Wyatt With thanks The first anniversary of our new organisation active lifestyle, and we are committed to Chief Executive Chair to our Funders is approaching fast, and thanks largely to the developing a national framework for Dance In the Spotlight Chirague Amarchande Anthony Bowne guidance of our Chair Sue Wyatt, the rest of in Health & Wellbeing in partnership with 4 Calendar, News Marketing and Principal, Trinity Laban the One Dance UK board and the commitment People Dancing. Meanwhile, we are building Communications Coordinator Conservatoire of Music and (Membership) Dance from the staff, we have demonstrated excellent up a library of case studies and examples of best practice where dance delivers physical Special Focus on Health Cameron Ball Irving David organisational health in our first year. It therefore 9 Introduction by Helen Laws Special Projects Coordinator Partner seems entirely fitting that ‘Health’ be the special and mental health benefits, and I would like to 10 Strength Training for Female Dancers by Nico Kolokythas Jessica Choi DWFM Beckman Solicitors focus for this, the second issue of One. encourage you to get in touch to let us know Interim Head of Development 12 Dance Medicine and Science Expert Panel Julian Flitter When he spoke at our first One Dance UK about any work you are doing, or know of, in by Sarah Needham-Beck Stephanie De’Ath Partner AGM in December, Alastair Spalding (Chief this field. The more evidence and examples Manager, National Institute Goodman Jones LLP 13 Sustaining Peak Fitness with Eric Underwood of Dance Medicine & Science Executive and Artistic Director of Sadler’s we have, the stronger the argument for further Anu Giri Andrew Hurst by Cameron Ball Claire Eve Wells), cited our work to support and improve investment in dance, from more diverse sources. Executive Director U.Dance Project Manager 14 Safeguarding Mental Health in the Creative Process with Dance Umbrella Chief Executive, dancers’ health as one of the most significant In this issue, you will also find reference to Claire Farmer developments in the dance sector in the UK over three of our exciting mentoring programmes for Stuart Waters by Erin Sanchez Vicki Igbokwe One Dance UK 16 Strengthening International Dance Science Connections Manager, National Institute the past decades. This important work continues dancers, dance teachers, choreographers and of Dance Medicine & Science Choreographer and Director Uchenna Dance to be a driving force for our future as it plays an other dance professionals. These are designed by Erin Sanchez and Sarah Needham-Beck Jim Fletcher With thanks to our 17 Combining the Traditional with the Cutting Edge Marketing & Tamara Rojo CBE important role in encouraging longer, healthier to open doors to new career opportunities. Principal Sponsor by Seema de Jorge-Chopra Communications Manager Artistic Director and more sustainable careers for dancers across Supporting artists in this way is very close to my English National Ballet 18 A Dance Ambassador’s Healthier Dancer Programme Yassmin Foster the country. heart, having been part of the very first cohort experience by Hollie McGill London Programmer, Dance Susannah Simons We are delighted to welcome The Royal Ballet on the pilot dancers mentoring scheme in 2007, of the African Diaspora Director 19 as our new partner in the National Institute of and experiencing first-hand the life-changing Recovering Creativity – Using Dance to Aid Addiction Rachel Gibson Arts and Outreach, CANVAS Recovery by Deb Ashby Organisational Dance Medicine and Science, adding weight to impact of these programmes. 20 One Dance UK Healthcare Practitioners Directory Change Manager Patrons With thanks to our and raising awareness of this ground-breaking On behalf of the entire One Dance UK team, project funders and Spencer Halls 20 Dancer Wellness reviewed by Claire Farmer supporters area of our work. We are actively seeking far- I would like to express our heartfelt thanks to Fundraising Consultant Carlos Acosta CBE ACE Dance and Music sighted funding partners to help us broaden the you, our members, funders and followers, for Tomorr Kokona Children and Young Pullout Resources for Teachers Akademi fantastic work of the NIDMS team, to provide your support over the past year. I congratulate Project Delivery Manager People’s Dance 23 Arts Funding and systematic data gathering on injury and fitness you for the fantastic work you all continue to Friendship for Key Stage 2 from Magpie Dance Helen Laws Peter Badejo OBE Philanthropy 25 Stardust for KS4 & 5 and Youth Companies Aged 15+ Head of Industry and Artist Birmingham Hippodrome in the major dance companies and schools produce and deliver – together we will continue Bob Lockyer by Hannah Winite-Hawkins, York Dance Space Support / National Institute Birmingham Royal Ballet throughout the UK, to benefit all dancers. to support a healthier, stronger, more vibrant of Dance Medicine & Science Dame Gillian Lynne DBE Canada Council Recently - partly through our political and more diverse dance sector. Cause 4 Hanna Madalska-Gayer Arlene Phillips CBE Features advocacy work - dance has started gaining I hope you will enjoy this second issue of One, Advocacy Manager DanceXchange 27 Richard Alston CBE Dance Immersion its own ‘centre of gravity’ as a key driver for and as ever, we look forward to your feedback, One Dance UK Dance Teaching Awards by Claire Somerville Hollie McGill Champion of U.Dance Dancing Times 28 Building Confidence the Intensive Way with Alvin Ailey engaging more and more people in a healthier, and your suggestions for future issues. Marketing and and Young Creatives Dancewear Central American Dance Theater by Elsa Urmston and Tracy Witney Communications Officer De Montfort University 30 Assessment without Levels by Laura Kendal Robyn Mondesir-Clarke Editorial and East London Dance Office and Membership 32 In Conversation with Rambert Dancers: Advertising English Folk Dance and Manager Song Society Guest Contributors Ghosts of Bruce’s Past, Present and Future Equity Mercy Nabirye Cameron Ball by Amy Swalwell Ferguson Creative Head of Dance of the African Magazine Editor 34 Diasporic Dance: Legacies of Imagination - A Review Diaspora (DAD) Governement of Quebec Hollie McGill International Association Sarah Needham-Beck PhD by Baraka Sele Assistant Editor of Blacks in Dance (IABD) Healthier Dancer Programme IRIE! dance theatre 35 Dr Adesola Akinleye’s Trailblazers Champion Experience Jim Fletcher Manager mac Birmingham by Katy Noakes Copy Editor Katy Noakes Northern School of 36 Feeling Hot, Hot, Hot! – Trailblazers Champions South West Programmer, Advertising Enquiries Contemporary Dance Showcase 2017 by Yassmin Foster Dance of the African Contact Cameron Ball at People Dancing Diaspora (DAD) [email protected] Photography by Ash 37 Burkina Faso: A Leap into the Unknown by Avatâra Ayuso Oluwatoyin Odunsi 020 7713 0730 Rambert 38 Travelling Rather than Arriving North Programmer, Dance of Rayne Foundation One Dance UK by Kirsty Alexander and Gitta Wigro the African Diaspora (DAD) Royal Opera House Ensign House Safe in Dance International 40 No Limits, No Boundaries by Jaivant Patel Suzannah Robinson Battersea Reach Stratford Circus Fundraising Fellow 42 Together for Dance Gala – Gallery Introduced Juniper Drive Serendipity London SW18 1TA by Jim Fletcher Christopher Rodriguez SunVit D3 Deputy Chief Executive/ www.onedanceuk.org 45 One Dance UK’s Performance Optimisation Package The Mackintosh Finance Director Registered Charity number Foundation 46 Spreading the Word with Harlequin Floors’ Mark Rasmussen Erin Sanchez 801552 Trinity College London Stuart Waters Seema de Jorge-Chopra Elsa Urmston Baraka Sele Healthier Dancer Programme VAT Registered Wayne Sleep Foundation Stuart holds an MA from Seema is a sought-after Kathak Elsa has been working in Baraka has a 30-year career Manager/Rudolf Nureyev 451 0858 58 Opinions, views and Cover photo: Royal Ballet Soloist Eric Underwood London Contemporary dance artist and teacher, and dance education for 20 working in the arts and is Foundation Medical Website policies expressed in the Photo by: Rick Guest as part of What Lies Beneath Please contact One Dance Dance School with extensive following her completion of years. As a dance manager frequently a guest speaker Resource Administrator UK if you would like to One Dance UK magazine Book available: rg-dance.com, rg-photo.com Amy Swalwell receive this magazine in a are those of the contributors performing and teaching an MSc in Dance Science from and lecturer her interests at conferences, seminars and Dance in Education Manager different format. and not necessarily those Trinity Laban Conservatoire span dance performance and of the publisher, editor, credits, including work for universities. An independent Claire Somerville One Dance UK employees Protein Dance, Interplay of Music and