Magpie Dance offers inclusive dance training, workshops and Continued Professional Development (CPD) to students, volunteers and professionals at any stage of their career.
Whether you work in the arts, community, disability, education, healthcare sectors or beyond, our methodology is unique and we know you’ll find it both insightful and inspiring. Above all, we’re about inclusivity and empowerment. We’ll give you the skills, confidence and resources to ensure your delivery is inclusive and engages and empowers the individuals you work with.
| An individual |
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| For example: a student or professional looking to increase personal skills and knowledge, continued professional development, or considering the IDPT programme. |
| A school or organisation for people with learning disabilities, Dementia or complex needs |
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| For example: SEN schools, day centres and residential homes looking to offer new activities for clients/users/pupils, OR looking to develop skills with colleagues. Suitable for those working with people with learning disabilities, who may also have additional needs such dementia, mental health needs, physical disabilities and/or challenging behaviours. |
| A University or college looking for placements and workshop opportunities for your students |
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| For example: We offer placement opportunities, theoretical/practical workshops for students, or sessions and workshops at universities. |
| A business or workforce |
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| Whether seeking to improve communication skills (we have delivered training with the Metropolitan Police and The Churchill Theatre), develop accessible resources for your audience (previous clients are Royal Opera House and The Place) or make your current work more inclusive (we have delivered training with Boy Blue and Babyballet). We’d love to discuss how we can help your company develop. |
See how we can make training work for you.
A regular team of Magpie Dance staff visit Marlborough school providing 7 dance sessions in one school day, every week during term time. An on-going partnership, classes of all ages benefit from fun and inclusive dance sessions.
Each year, we take Royal Academy of Dance (RAD) placements who attend our sessions and gain hands on experience of our inclusive dance teaching methods and mentorship from our facilitators. Often on graduation RAD students become Magpie Dance volunteers or facilitators.
Pilot of new Magpie Dance digital resources and Covid-safe resource pack to deliver sessions both in school and to those self-isolating at home. Please do get in touch if you’d like to see how these can be used in your school or organisation.
For 5 consecutive years we have visited Canterbury Christ Church University delivering professional development for year 2 degree students. The students gain inclusive dance experience in a day of theory and a day of workshops.
Delivery of training sessions at babyballets’ Dartford, Bexley and Bromley and also at their National Franchise Conference (Halifax) for their staff teams on the Magpie Dance approach to delivering inclusive dance classes.
Inclusive dance workshops with live music, have been delivered by our team at many local schools including: Glebe School, Newstead Wood School, Scott’s Park School, Marjorie McClure School, Nash College, Riverside School – to name just a few! Contact us to find out about us coming to deliver fun and inclusive dance classes for all abilities and needs at your school (mainstream or SEN).
The ground breaking IDP training not only provides role models in facilitators and assistants who also trust in this, but also several opportunities to exercise this planning, patience and focused and active delivery of material in a real setting.
With our unique methodology our training and workshops deliver significant progression that can be observed by staff:
Confidence:
50% of participants showed significant and 50% showed some progression in confidence
Co-operation:
50% of participants showed significant and 50% showed some progression in co-operation
Communication:
50% of participants showed significant and 37.5% showed some progression in communication
Our long-lasting partnerships can be seen with the Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust, where we deliver inclusive dance sessions at Atlas House and Tall Trees. The participants include people with a range of complex learning disabilities, some clients on the autism spectrum, challenging behaviour, plus older clients with dementia.
Drawing on over thirty years of experience, all our training offers are tailored to meet your needs. You can be assured of high quality, professional training and CPD opportunities with Magpie Dance.
We’re happy to discuss bespoke packages to fulfil your requirements.
Magpie Dance is an affiliate member of CDMT who “ensures the provision of high quality professional training through Accreditation of full-time dance, drama and musical theatre schools and colleges, and has provided the industry benchmark of quality assurance for professional training in the UK since 1979” source: CDMT.
We love nothing better than working with dance professionals and dance organisations across the world. You can see our collaborations and artistic themes in action. If outreach isn’t quite what you’re after and you’d like to work with us and our participants instead, we very much welcome your contact. Please email Alison Ferrao, our Artistic Director.
