Category Archives: Dance

National Working Group for Dance

May 26, 2014 Olivia Wexelstein Leave a comment

The national working group for Dance met on 8 May at Optima Glasgow.

The main focus of the group is:

• to establish what the barriers are to the delivery of Dance

• to improve communication within the dance community

• to establish a network of contacts within the dance community

Con Morris from Education Scotland gave the group an insight into how Glow could be used to establish better communication and links. How a “Blether account” would allow practitioners to support each other and share good practice.

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National Working Group for Dance

Dance

Gathered Together 2014 – Scotland’s First Inclusive Dance Festival‏

May 19, 2014 Olivia Wexelstein Leave a comment

CPD, Creative Partners, Dance, Secondary schools

CPD Training – Dance for Core PE

April 21, 2014 Olivia Wexelstein Leave a comment

YDance are delivering CPD Training Days for secondary school teachers this June at a venue in Glasgow covering Dance for Core PE, National 4 PE (Dance) and National 5 PE (Dance).

DATES & COSTS

Dance for Core PE (S1 to S3)
2 June 2014
9.30am to 4pm
£70 per person

National 4 PE (Dance)
3 June 2014
9.30am to 12.30pm
£45

National 5 PE (Dance)
3 June 2014
1.30am to 4.30pm
£45 per person

DISCOUNTS

Discounts are available for those who book more than one CPD Training Day with YDance. For the full range of sessions please visit www.ydance.org.

BOOKINGS

All enquiries and bookings can be emailed to cpd@ydance.org or call the office on 0141 552 7712

CPD, Creative Partners, Creative practitioners, Dance, Early Years, Primary schools

CPD Training – Commonwealth Games

April 21, 2014 Olivia Wexelstein Leave a comment

Due to the success of our Commonwealth Games CPD in 2013 we have decided to add an extra date – Tuesday 29 April 2014.

This CPD Training Day is open to nursery, primary and secondary school teachers and is designed to provide you with a fun and creative session to adapt for your own classroom.

Explore three different aspects of the Commonwealth Games through dance:

– Cultures & Traditions
– Ready, Set, Go! (creative dance tasks)
– Learn the Motto, Get Inspired!

Bookings

If you have any questions and/or you’d like to book a place on this CPD Training day please email cpd@ydance.org or call the office on 0141 552 7712. We’re more than happy to help with any queries and we also offer a discount to those who book more than one CPD Training Day with YDance – please visit www.ydance.org for more available dates.

When: 29 April 2014
Where: Glasgow
Cost: £70 per person (inc VAT)

Dance, Glasgow2014, Opportunities

Get Scotland Dancing

March 18, 2014 Olivia Wexelstein Leave a comment

Get Scotland Dancing (GSD) was created by a Scottish Government policy in 2010 and is one of the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games Legacy programmes. It is also part of Culture 2014, the national strand of the Glasgow 2014 Cultural Programme. It is free to join and school/youth groups can register at getscotlanddancing.org. Being part of the online community means you can find out what’s going on in your area and make connections with other dance groups and teachers who could help develop your work.

CPD, Creative Partners, Dance, Drama, Music, Primary schools, Secondary schools

Blue Blocks, Going to the Zoo and an orchestral Work-In-Progress

March 9, 2014 Olivia Wexelstein Leave a comment

We’ve got a busy office here at Starcatchers HQ – with our Creative Skills and Expecting Something projects going full speed ahead, and productions of Hup, A Small Story, Blue Block Studio and Yellow Valley all touring over the next few months. For more details, and to marvel at how Starcatchers staff are keeping their sanity (lots of biscuits is the key!), read on!

Blue Block Studio

Development of Blue Block Studio, our innovative programme of creative play and storytelling for babies and young children, which will be visiting 10 communities across Scotland as part of the Culture 2014 programme celebrating the Commonwealth Games, is well under way! We’re very excited that some venues are now on sale and others will be joining them very soon.

Blue Block Studio is a space specially designed for babies under 24 months. It is a creative place for babies and their adults to listen, to explore, to build, to watch, to lie down, to look and to touch. See www.starcatchers.org.uk/things-to-do/blue-block-studio to check which community we’ll be visiting near you!

Performances of Yellow Valley, the musical-storytelling performance created for children aged 2-4 years which will accompany Blue Block Studio, are also on sale, and again more will be added over the coming weeks. See www.starcatchers.org.uk/things-to-do/yellow-valley for more details and venues.

A Small Story

Dates for the Scottish tour of ‘a small story/ eine kleine gesichte’ our co-production with Berlin-based Theater o.N, are now on our website at www.starcatchers.org.uk/things-to-do/small-storyeine-kleine-geschichte-scotland with most venues now available to book!

The show is for children aged 2 and over and is all about the small stories which make up big stories life – love, marriage, babies, friendships, everything! It has been made by Andy Manley and Ania Michaelis with design by Fred Pommerehn and music by Danny Krass.

Don’t miss this opportunity to see this fabulous international performance!

Creative Skills Programme

Our Creative Skills Programme is in full swing! Early years practitioners in Aberdeen, Edinburgh, Fife, Inverclyde and South Lanarkshire took part in a What is Creativity? session with Heather at the start of the year and have begun practical sessions delivered by Early Years artists. Sessions have been well attended with early years practitioners from a variety of settings, and early feedback is positive with a high percentage of participants having already started using skills and techniques they’ve learned in the sessions in their own practice.

The HNC Childcare students at Glasgow Kelvin College and Dumfries and Galloway College also continued their training, with music sessions led by Greg Sinclair. The students seem to have carried the same enthusiasm from last year’s sessions into the new year – long may it continue!

So please click here for more information or to sign up.

Expecting Something

We’re more than halfway through our second block of Expecting Something, our project with the Family Nurse Partnership Edinburgh and Lothians. In this block lead artist Sacha Kyle has been looking at the concept of there social and connected mother and baby, and our young mothers, babies and mothers-to-be, have been enjoying relaxing music and movement with various visiting artists. Our mums, their partners, friends or family are also looking forward to the last couple of sessions in this block, where we’ll be going on trips to Edinburgh Botanic Gardens and Edinburgh Zoo! All together now “We’re going to the zoo, zoo, zoo, How about you, you, you…”

For more information on everything that Expecting Something have been up to see Sacha’s blog at http://expectingsomething.wordpress.com.

Nickum

We’re getting closer and closer to the culmination of our Nickum project, in conjunction with the RSNO, and nursery and family centre venues in Aberdeen are now confirmed for the mini-tour of the work-in-progress Hup. Abi and Hazel, our lead artists, along with musicians Liz Lloyd and Andrew Huggan have only had one week of intensive rehearsals but already Hup is coming together and enthralled the 0-24 month audiences who saw shadings at Out of the Blue, Leith and Ashgrove Family Centre, Aberdeen.

To read all about Nickum and Hup see Hazel and Abi’s blog at http://nickumaberdeen.wordpress.com

Art, Art and Design, Community Learning and Development, Creative practitioners, Dance, Drama, Funding, Health and Wellbeing, Literacy and English, Music, Primary schools, Scotland Colleges, Secondary schools, Social Studies, Technologies

Refugee Week Scotland 2014

February 26, 2014 Olivia Wexelstein Leave a comment

Community Celebrations Grant Application
Deadline: 3^rd March – 5pm

At the Scottish Refugee Council we have been busy organising a very exciting programme for Refugee Week Scotland 2014! It will run from 16^th – 22^nd June in venues across the country, and we’d love for as many organisations as possible to get involved this year. The 2014 theme is ‘Welcome’, so we want you to have a think about how ‘welcome’ is shown in your community.

The SRC are awarding grants of £100 – £450 to help small community organisations to organise your own events as part of Refugee Week Scotland 2014. We strongly encourage you to apply and to spread the word to any other organisations or community groups that you think may be interested!

There are two files attached below – an Application Form and Grant Application Guidance Notes. Please read them both before applying! Receiving the grant from the SRC is unfortunately not guaranteed, so to make sure you are in the best position for acceptance, we urge you to read through these Guidance Notes thoroughly. We are looking for ideas that explore the theme – ‘Welcome’ – and discuss all the different things that this word can mean. For example, your activity could:

– Explore how welcome is shown in your community

– Encourage people to share their experiences of how welcome they have been made to feel here

– Encourage people to share experiences of how they have welcomed life in Scotland

Most importantly, you must demonstrate how your event will appeal to other communities and general public, and how you plan to involve them! The Community Celebration Events are the first step towards wide-scale understanding and integration among asylum seeker, refugee and local communities across the whole of Scotland. We want to know how your event will help this become a reality!

The deadline for submission is Monday 3^rd March, 5pm. Please send all completed applications to arts@scottishrefugeecouncil.org.uk

If you need help – we are happy to discuss any ideas and give advice where necessary – just email arts@scottishrefugeecouncil.org.uk.You can also browse last year’s programme for inspiration.
Good luck!

Community Celebration Grant Application Form 2014

Community Celebration Grant Application Guidance Notes 2014 Final

Art, Art and Design, Creative practitioners, Dance, Drama, Health and Wellbeing, Literacy and English, Music, Numeracy and Maths, Primary schools, resources, Science, Secondary schools, Social Studies, Technologies

Into Film in Fife

February 25, 2014 Olivia Wexelstein 2 Comments

Into Film is a new film education charity, bringing together FILMCLUB and First Light, gives 5-19 year olds a chance to experience film and the moving image creatively and critically, as well as learning about the film industry and careers within it. In or out of school Into Film cultivates their interest, and provide teachers and youth leaders with the tools and training to support engagement at all levels.

The film education programme includes learning resources, CPD and training, film clubs, filmmaking film festivals, industry interactions, youth engagement and more. For information or to register for updates visit www.intofilm.org or if you’re interested in starting a film club to watch, make and understand films register at www.filmclub.org

Into Film update Feb2014 Fife

Art, Art and Design, Creative Partners, Creative practitioners, Dance, Drama, Education Scotland, Expressive Arts, Music, Primary schools, Secondary schools

Music Working Group

February 21, 2014 Olivia Wexelstein Leave a comment

The subject working group for Music convened for the initial meeting on Monday 3 February

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The subject working group provided an opportunity to discuss the development of creative approaches to music education across sectors. This working group mirrors the groups being brought together from the other Expressive Arts subject areas, Art & Design, Drama and Dance who will feed in to the Expressive Arts conversation days.

We would invite practitioners across sectors to share their thoughts and views.

CPD, Creative Partners, Dance, Primary schools

MARCH CPD TRAINING DAYS FOR TEACHERS

February 12, 2014 Olivia Wexelstein Leave a comment

It’s not long now until we deliver our CPD training days for nursery and primary teachers, beginning 5 March.

If you have considered using dance in the classroom but don’t know where to begin then these sessions could be ideal for you.

It’s not about turning you in to a dancer, or about how much dance experience you have. In fact, it’s all about your pupils and how these CPD sessions can give you ideas you can adapt to the needs of your own classroom.

If you are just starting out we’d recommend taking part in the Basic Components of Dance just to give you a better understanding of the basics. Then you can move on to Dance & Science, Dance in Numeracy, Dance & Stories or all three. It’s entirely up to you. Discounts are available for multiple bookings.

Give us a call on 0141 552 7712 to make an enquiry/book any of these sessions, or you can email victoria@ydance.org

Details of all our CPD are listed on our website www.ydance.org

NURSERY & LOWER PRIMARY

Basic Components of Dance

5 March 2014 (9.30am to 12.30pm)