from Dance Insights, Yorkshire Dance's youth dance conference, Doncaster, Wed 20 Nov 2013

2. Purpose
Progression within and through dance
for children and young people
How might ‘progression’ be improved?
How might the improvements be
implemented?

3. Advisory Group
To offer advice and guidance
To receive reports including an interim
briefing
Receive the strategy and action plan and
share with sector
To initiate ‘next steps’

5. Practitioner
Entrepreneur
Choreographer
Development role
‘CATALYST’
Creator
Educator
Marketeer

6. Development role
‘CATALYST’
“An ability to broker, combine and produce dance
activity in a manner which is aware of the needs of
clients and funders, the capacity of arts, community
and dance organisations.... is steadily advancing and
transforming the dance landscape improving the
supply chain and ultimately underpinning
progression between sometimes separated elements
within the supply chain”

9. Priorities
• 1 – Organisation, action and coordination
• 2 – Communication and information
• 3 – Facilitation and support
Accepted by AG as appropriate and productive
Today feeds into the process of ‘next steps’

10. Initial responses
Use report as a reference and evidence tool to
apply and lobby for further financial resource
To prioritise the key recommendations and rank
them in order of:
-those which offer us opportunities to galvanise as a sector and enable
us to connect across the Northern area in the immediate term
- those which could be explored and addressed in the short/mid-term
with further thought and consideration
-those which require further consultation, possibly further evidence as
well as enhanced contextual information to ensure their
appropriateness

11. Dance Insights...
*Your response to the report
*Which opportunities could galvanise us as a
sector and enable us to connect across the
Northern area in the immediate term?
*What would you prioritise?

12. A new canvas for dance
http://www.nscd.ac.uk
Click on ‘Community Programmes’
Executive Summary
Fully Report
Response from the Advisory Group