Hampshire Dance offers a range of training and networking opportunities for youth dance professionals across the south east region and signposts practitioners to high quality training offered by other organisations. Please see below for details of our spring programme 2010:

Fundraising for Youth Dance

Friday 12 March 2010
10am - 4.30pm
Winchester Discovery Centre

Led by Hannah Wheeler, this one-day course will focus on 'getting to know your project', writing a fundraising application and understanding funders. By the end of the training day participants will be confident enough to complete their own fundraising applications.  Suitable for freelance practitioners, youth workers, recent graduates and final year degree students.

Cost: £25 for Freelance Dance Practitioners (£45 for those employed in schools)

Managing a Successful Youth Dance Company

Thursday 6 May 2010
10am - 4.30pm
Hextable Dance, Swanley, Kent

Tuesday 11 May 2010
10am - 4.30pm
Wycombe Swan Theatre, Buckinghamshire

This one-day course, led by Hannah Wheeler, will provide an overview of the various aspects of setting up, running and developing a successful youth dance company. It will give you an insight into policy and procedures, good practice, health and safety and help you identify your strengths and weaknesses. The course will include open discussion, self-enquiry and reference to a number of key case studies. Participants will all receive a course handbook at the end of the day.

This course has been jointly commissioned by Hampshire Dance and London Youth Dance, Sadler's Wells and is suitable for anyone currently running or hoping to set up a youth dance company, including practitioners operating in isolation and individuals employed by an organisation, and both those with some, or no experience of running a youth dance company.

Cost: £25 for Freelance Dance Practitioners (£45 for those employed in schools)

To book for any of these courses please email, telephone 023 8065 2712 or fax 023 8065 2713.

Dance Links is an initiative which aims to improve links between schools and dance providers funded through the PE, School Sport for Young People Strategy (PESSYP). Youth Dance England has commissioned the National Dance Teachers Association (NDTA) to deliver the training element of Dance Links 2009-10.

Dance Links training is being delivered as a two day residential course which includes an evening session and overnight stay. The training will provide dance practitioners with the current context of dance in schools; look at what is meant by high quality provision in dance education; give practical examples of teaching performance skills, facilitating creativity and managing behaviour. The two days will be a mixture of practical and seminar-based sessions.

The Dance Links training for 2009 has already taken place but please contact the NDTA for details of future courses.