CURRENT PROJECTS

Community Schools NI Project
Dance Resource Base has been engaged by Artemis Schools NI to programme a range of dance classes that will promote active participation in dance for local communities in East Belfast. For a two-year period (January 2010 - December 2011), Dance Resource Base will employ freelance, specialist dance facilitators to deliver a range of dance classes aimed at different local groups and communities across East Belfast. This two-year project is funded through Big Lottery and is based in the new state of the art dance studio in Ashfield Girls High School. In the first year, dance classes involved a weekly dance class for pupils of Mitchell House School, a special school for children with physical disabilities, dance fusion weeks and a course of creative dance for children and young people. For the second year, Dance Resource Base is devising an older people's programme and looks forward to the further development of this and other classes.

Delve 2010/2011
With support from The Creative Industries Innovation Fund, Dance Resource Base has provided a series of business enhancement training opportunities for dance professionals. Workshops have included First Aid for Dance and a management and project development two-day event - How to Thrive not just Survive. We have delivered a forum in partnership with the Foundation for Community Dance on National Standards in Dance Leadership and Professional Codes of Conduct and have also run a tax seminar for the self-employed. In early 2011, we will be hosting a seminar in partnership with Audiences NI and The Grand Opera House, Belfast that will cover aspects of dance audience building and development. We are also planning a daylong course that will look into Issues of Touch in Community Dance.

Members of Dance Resource Base are granted a discounted rate to these courses.

For further information on any of the projects detailed above, please contact us.
T: 028 9023 1515
E: info@danceresourcebase.org