Youth Dance Business Plan

Regional Youth Dance Business Plan 2009 - 2011Yorkshire

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Youth Dance Business Plan 2009

Contents

Director’s foreword 1Executive summaryIntroduction 21. Lead organisations 32. Yorkshire and Humber region3. Objectives for the youth dance development programme 2009 – 2011 64. The programmes that will run in order to attain these objectives 75. Risk assessment and exit strategy 166. Implications for management structure and staffing 177. Monitoring, evaluation and dissemination 188. Activity plans and milestones 19Appendices 25

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Youth Dance Business Plan 2009 - 1


Director’s Foreword

Yorkshire Dance is delighted to be working together with YouthDance England, and particularly pleased to be asked to propose plansfor continued partnership work over the next two years which willhave a substantial and much-needed impact on the youth danceinfrastructure in our region.

The developments we have outlined in this document are deeply embedded in ourown strategic thinking for our region, and this opportunity is therefore bothextremely welcome and timely for us. Importantly, it also helps us to support anumber of major current government initiatives for young people in health as well asthe arts, and we look forward to working with colleagues across the country to helpraise the profile of youth dance both regionally and nationally.

Wieke EringaExecutive Director, Yorkshire Dance

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Yorkshire Regional Youth Dance Business Plan

Executive summary

Introduction

As a result of Tony Hall’s Dance Review

Youth Dance England (YDE) will be thekey strategic body to lead on youthdance and dance in schools. Strategicfunding of £5.6 million will be investedin YDE over three years from 2008-11.

A significant part of the three-year investment in YDE will be made available to regionsto fund regional programmes that address the National Brief for youth dancedevelopment. Each of nine regional partner organisations (RPO) was invited to submita Business Plan for funding a two-year programme 2009 – 2011. The total fundingavailable for the nine regions is £1,566,000.

This plan

Yorkshire Dance is the RPO for Yorkshire, and this plan comprises Yorkshire Dance’sbid on behalf the Yorkshire region. For the purposes of this document ‘Yorkshire’comprises the areas of Yorkshire and the Humber as covered by Arts Council EnglandYorkshire. It is the fifth largest region in England with a population of 5 million people,of whom 1.5 million live in the West Yorkshire Urban area.

Research and consultation has shown that Youth Dance provision in the area iscentred on Leeds and West Yorkshire with other smaller pockets of activity dottedaround the region. There has been little strategic intervention to date and there is alack of clear infrastructure to respond to current strategy and policy initiatives relatingto the Dance Review or to those of other sectors such as Find Your Talent, the five hourphysical activity offer or the Change4Life anti-obesity agenda.

This plan proposes the following objectives to address these issues and to ensure theroll-out of Youth Dance England’s national brief in Yorkshire.

• To establish and nurture a sustainable youth dance infrastructure for Yorkshire• To improve and consolidate the regional offer to young people• To improve, expand and develop the regional youth dance workforce• To provide clear and improved regional progression routes for young people

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Programmes flowing from these objectives will be delivered by 5 new sub regionalDance Hubs, which will:

• Secure a network of strategic and operational partners, stakeholders and funders• Ensure delivery of Youth Dance England’s National Brief in the sub region• Deliver a sub regional action plan, focusing on the key national priorities of

widening access, raising standards and improving progression routes, to include a range of activities including New Moves and a sub regional regional dance platform

• Deliver dance activities, platforms, performances and schemes either alone or with other providers

• Work towards a quality assurance framework

The Hubs will report fully to the Youth Dance Strategy Manager and agree an exitstrategy for continued sub regional youth dance activity following the cessation ofYouth Dance England’s investment.

Yorkshire Dance will employ a new full-time equivalent Youth Dance Administrator /Web Administrator alongside the existing Youth Dance Strategy Manager to lead onregional programmes which will include:

• Development of a regional youth dance website• Ongoing youth consultation• An annual regional youth dance platform (Dansopolis)• Kickstart, a training, mentoring and support programme• Programmes responding to national agendas and policy priorities including Find

Your Talent and Change4Life

• Strive to Achieve programme for young people to work with professional practitioners

The cost of programmes over the two year life of the business plan will be £424,598.Yorkshire Dance is asking Youth Dance England for £190,000 with a further£234,598 to be found through delivery partners and other stakeholders.

Introduction

In 2007 Tony Hall, chief executive of the Royal Opera Housewas commissioned by the Department for Culture, Media andSport and the Department for Children, Schools and Familiesto produce The Dance Review. This was a report togovernment, reviewing young people’s access to, and provisionof, dance both within and outside the curriculum. It suggestedways in which the DCMS and DCSF could work together andwith external stakeholders to raise the profile of danceactivities in and out of school.

A significant recommendation was the establishment of aProgramme Board within Government .This board will bring

together key funders of dance schemes across DCSF, DCMS and Arts Council ofEngland as well as key education stakeholders and agencies such as Ofsted and theQualifications and Curriculum Authority.(See http://www.culture.gov.uk/images/publications/FinalGovtResponse.pdffor the full government response to the dance review).

Also recommended was the enhancement of Youth Dance England (YDE) to be thekey strategic body to lead on youth dance and dance in schools. Strategic funding of£5.6 million will be invested in YDE over three years from 2008-11.

A significant part of the three-year investment in YDE will be made available to regionsto fund regional programmes that address the National Brief for youth dance

development 2008 – 2011. Each of nine regional partner organisations (RPO) wasinvited to submit a Business Plan for funding a two-year programme 2009 – 2011.

The total funding available for the nine regions is £1,566,000.

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The business plan which follows sets out the plans for the Yorkshire region to increaseaccess to high quality dance provision for young people. It proposes infrastructuredevelopment initiatives and a number of directly delivered, and sub regionallydevolved, programmes to help achieve the national priorities of increasing access,raising standards and improving progression routes.

1. Lead organisations

The two organisations leading on this business plan are Youth Dance England andYorkshire Dance. YDE is funding a Youth Dance Strategy Manager post withinYorkshire Dance. Yorkshire Dance is one of 9 Regional Partner Organisations (RPOs)being funded in this way as part of YDE’s enhanced strategic role.

Youth Dance England Mission Statement

Youth Dance England is the national organisation that champions, supports anddevelops dance for young people. It works to create the conditions that ensure everyyoung person can access high quality dance and progress their interest both in andoutside of school. Through a shared vision with its national network of RegionalPartner Organisations it aims to increase access, raise standards and improveprogression routes.

Yorkshire Dance Mission Statement

Yorkshire Dance aims to inspire people’s lives through dance.

Yorkshire Dance is a national development agency for dance in Yorkshire and fulfils astrategic development role for the dance sector whilst leading on creative initiatives. Yorkshire Dance is a ‘home’ for dance - a place where dance is discovered, created,learned, investigated and developed in a safe, supportive and professional environment.

Yorkshire Dance aims to build the regional infrastructure for dance. We plan to dothis within three main strategic priorities:

1. Artist Development2. Community and Education (including Youth Dance)3. Programming and audience development

For further information on Youth Dance England and Yorkshire Dancesee Appendix 1.

2. The Yorkshire and the Humber region and an

assessment of the context and market for youth

dance activity in the region.

A. Regional profile(Source: Office for National Statistics www.statistics.gov.uk)

Yorkshire and the Humber – often shortened to just ‘Yorkshire’is the fifth largest English region with a total area of 15,000square kilometres. It has a population of just over 5 millionpeople, around 10% of the total for England. The region isextremely diverse, having a wide range of urban, rural andcoastal areas. Population densities vary widely throughout theregion, ranging from fewer than 99 persons per sq km in severalof the shire authority districts of North Yorkshire to almost3,500 per sq km in the city of Kingston upon Hull.

The most heavily populated area is the West Yorkshire UrbanArea, running broadly along the M62 corridor from

Huddersfield to Wakefield. The WYUA incorporates Bradford, Dewsbury, Leeds andsurroundings and is the UK’s 4th largest urban area in terms of population (following

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London, the West Midlands Urban Area and the Greater Manchester Urban Area),having a population of 1.5 million people. It is also one of the few major urban areaswhose population is increasing (Ref: the 1991 and 2001 censuses).

The West Yorkshire area has the highest proportion of people of Pakistani origin ofanywhere in the UK at 7.5% and has a high proportion of young people – at 21.6%, thesecond highest proportion in the UK

In 2005/06, 22% of 16-year-olds in Yorkshire and The Humber were not in full-timepost-compulsory education or government-supported training. This NEET rate (Not inEmployment Education or Training) compared with a UK rate of 18 % and was thejoint highest in the UK.

B. The context and market for youth dance activity

The context and market for youth dance in Yorkshire was researched as part of theYorkshire Development Plan an audit took place in December 2007 and the reportwas published in March 2008 (copy available on request). These findings together with

meetings conducted by the Youth DanceStrategy Manager inform this section:

The 2007 Audit showed that there are 58youth dance practitioners active in theregion. 32 of these are based in Leeds. Thesecond ranked authority, Kirklees had nine.Six Local Authority areas had two or fewerpractitioners each and the remainder none.

Looked at sub regionally, the figures for practitioners are as follows:

West Yorkshire 45North Yorkshire 6East Yorkshire * 2South Yorkshire 5

These practitioners are servicing 71 youth dance groups:


Additionally, the audit shows that there were 33 schools and FE institutions offeringdance at key stage four or above. The sub regional breakdown is


*(Includes N and NE Lincolnshire)

This data, and others collected by the Yorkshire Youth Dance Coordinator (in post2006-08) together with desk and field research undertaken by Yorkshire Dance andthe Youth Dance Strategy Manager inform the context set out below.



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There is a wide range of opportunities to participate in or watch dance in the Yorkshire

region,

• There are several highly rated dance companies in the Yorkshire region, Northern Ballet Theatre, Phoenix Dance, Vincent Dance Theatre to name but a few. The majority of these are based in the Leeds area.

• There is also high quality participatory work taking place - education and outreach work from the dance companies, Centres for Advanced training at Northern Ballet theatre and Northern School of Contemporary Dance (NSCD) as well as exemplar projects – such as RJC Dance, DAZL (Dance Action Zone, Leeds), part of South Leeds Primary Care Trust and Dance United, working in the Youth Justice sector in Bradford.

• Leeds is the only city outside of London to possess a dance conservatoire - at the Northern School of Contemporary Dance - producing large numbers of highly skilled graduates.

However:

• Outside of the Leeds and West Yorkshire area provision is patchy, both in terms of quality of delivery and geographical reach.

• The major urban centres do have access to quality provision, particularly in West Yorkshire, however even here there are pockets of little or no activity.

• Lack of strategic investment has resulted in much provision to date being one-off and short-term in nature with little emphasis on sustainability.

• Even though the region is home to several highly rated performance companies, many of them do not have a full regional remit.

• Large rural areas such as North Yorkshire and The East Riding face special difficulties; large travelling distances, lack of access to good facilities and a shortage of locally based practitioners. Nonetheless there are pockets of excellent practice, usually as a result of one exceptionally committed individual or partnership.

• Of the remaining urban areas, South Yorkshire is underdeveloped by comparison with West Yorkshire and the areas of North & North East Lincolnshire are

particularly poorly served. • In all areas it is felt that progression routes for young people are in need of

mapping and clarification.

There is a large pool of dance practitioners,

• Yorkshire Dance draws on these practitioners to run its ongoing programme of classes, course and workshops and also offers targeted outreach and education projects to groups across the region.

• Through the Regional Dance Development Network, Yorkshire Dance is aware of several highly skilled practitioners offering dance work in the region.

But:

• The workforce needs to grow quickly and extend its range of skills if the region is to sustain a response to increased investment.

• The current workforce reflects the kind of work currently available, which is largely one-off and short-term.

• Quality assurance is a key area for development. Although there is a large pool of practitioners, there is a real need to equip local practitioners to be able to deliver longer term initiatives and to develop their abilities to deliver progressive programmes of activity which grow and change as over time.

• Many practitioners are able to teach repertoire and technique but there is a dearth of expertise in creative, open-ended and reflective practice which characterises successful longer term work.

• Youth Dance Practitioners are largely based in Leeds and many travel long distances to serve other areas of the region. Many sub-regions have expressed a need to develop ‘home grown’ practitioners and to devise a strategy to attract practitioners back to their home area following study elsewhere in the region or in other parts of the country.



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There is great potential for cross-sector partnership working,

but:

• There has been a lack of strategic leadership to date and the infrastructure to support youth dance is underdeveloped by comparison to other youth arts, notably music, which has benefited from funding from Youth Music, strategic advice from Youth Music’s regional coordinator and a targeted workforce development initiative through Music Leader, Yorkshire.

• Though there is some cross sector partnership working, there is a need for a strategic intervention to help streamline each other’s infrastructures, reporting structures, funding streams, timescales and targets (which are similar in many cases).

• Some of the contacts and development work which have taken place between bodies at national level have failed to translate thus far into an effective regional delivery mechanism.

• The overriding need for the region is the development of a clear infrastructure able to respond to the needs of young people and able to provide a focus through which all stakeholders can work.

Recent Developments

• Youth Dance England investment enabled Yorkshire Dance to employ a Youth Dance Coordinator from 2006-8. The post holder began to develop a regional network, managed the Yorkshire region’s hosting of the National Youth Dance Festival in 2006 and undertook a baseline audit of provision which informs this plan. The Regional Dance Development Network, representing key regional practitioners and managers was established during this time. The RDDN was consulted during the writing of this plan and will retain a key advisory role throughout its life.

3. Objectives for the youth dance development

programme 2009 – 2011

In order to address the issues outlined above the Yorkshire region proposes four keystrategic objectives and a series of interventions and programmes to support youthdance in the region. These are:

To establish and nurture a sustainable youth dance infrastructure for

Yorkshire through:-

• The development of five sub regional partnership hubs (Dance Hubs), working across sectors to pull together local expertise and funding streams while following clear national policy and strategy priorities.

• Establishing new Youth Dance Administrator and Web administrator posts to support the hubs, the Youth Dance Strategy Manager and a new youth website.

• Working through the Dance Hubs to establish a local, sub regional and regional structure for youth dance performances, linking with U.Dance (the national dance performance framework) and incorporating established regional opportunities like Dansopolis.

• Establishing a regional strategy advisory group consisting of key cross sector partners.

To improve and consolidate the regional offer to young people through:-

• A significant new web resource to host information, research, advice and guidance for young people involved or wishing to be involved in dance. Content to be driven by young people and interactive in nature.

• Taking ownership of, and delivering, the national schemes such as U.Dance, Dance Links 4, Stride and Young Creatives.

• A detailed consultation into young peoples’ views and perceived needs.• Delivering a new activity programmes New Moves, directly to young people in

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To improve, expand and develop the regional youth dance workforce

through:-

• Development and delivery of the ‘kick start’ programme.• Working through the Dance Hubs to identify and address sub regional workforce

development issues and establish a quality assurance framework.• Working in partnership with the sports, health and cultural sectors and mapping

opportunities for practitioners in these sectors to engage in Dance.

To provide clear and improved regional progression routes for young

people interested in a career in dance through:-

• Researching and mapping current existing provision through the Dance Routes initiative led by partnership hubs and supported by the new administrator.

• Hosting, in collaboration with other regions, a north of England dance careers event.

• Developing a closer relationship with Centres for Advanced Training (CATS) and higher and further education institutions within the region.

4. The programmes that will run in order to attain

these Objectives

This section sets out the nine programme strands we propose to meet the objectivesset out above. Programmes A-H include schemes for infrastructure development,proposed new posts, an improved website, a communications and consultancyframework and programmes delivering directly to young people and the danceworkforce. Full, detailed budgets for each of the programme strands can be madeavailable upon request.

Sub regional partnership hubs are the key proposed development. Their structure andremit are outlined in section A. More detail on the programmes they will be expectedto deliver can be found under section I.

For participation targets relating to the all programmes please see Appendix 2

A. Sub regional Partnership Hubs (Dance Hubs):

We propose the creation of five sub regional partnership development hubs, workingacross sectors to pull together local expertise and funding streams while followingclear national policy and strategy priorities.

Areas have been chosen to reflect historical administrative boundaries and to alignwith the existing administrative structure of potential partners from other sectors tohelp streamline relationships. This Dance Hub structure aligns with the administrativestructures of Sport England, Yorkshire, Aimhigher, and the Lifelong Learning Networksamong others and this division of Yorkshire is well understood regionally.

The sole exception to this is the South Bank Hub comprising North Lincolnshire andNorth East Lincolnshire whose geographical isolation from the rest of East Yorkshire,lack of provision and infrastructure justifies giving this area Dance Hub status.



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The five hubs will cover the following sub regions:

West Yorkshire Hub

The unitary authorities of Bradford, Calderdale, Kirklees, Leeds and Wakefield. Thefive authorities have a joint services committee, West Yorkshire Grants, for funding subregion wide cultural activities. This is in addition to the funding held at metropolitanborough or district level

North Yorkshire Hub

The North Yorkshire County Council area, including the shire districts of Craven,Richmondshire, Harrogate, Selby, Hambleton Ryedale and Scarborough. The unitaryauthority of York.

East Yorkshire Hub

The unitary authoritiesof East Riding ofYorkshire andKingston upon Hull

The South Bank

Hub

The unitary authoritiesof North Lincolnshireand North EastLincolnshire

South Yorkshire

Hub

The unitary authoritiesof Barnsley, Doncaster,Rotherham andSheffield

Structure of the Dance Hubs

Each hub will consist of a sub regional cross-sector partnership made up from arepresentative from some or all of the following.

• Local authority: Children’s services, schools (having arts college or sports college status), extended schools, arts development, youth service.

• Sport sector: County Sport Partnership, Schools sports coordinators, partnership development managers, competition managers.

• Education sector: Key sub regional institutions from the higher education and further education sectors, Lifelong Learning Networks, Aimhigher. Learning and Skills Council (NB from 2010 the LSC in Yorkshire devolves its powers to 4 sub regional young people’s learning agencies whose boundaries match the structure of the hubs – with one exception: North and East Yorkshire are combined under their system)

• Health sector: Local primary care trusts, physical activity leads• Dance/Participatory arts sector: Centres for Advanced Training, practitioners,

project managers, representatives from private dancing schools, Arts Council and Youth music

• Other sectors: as appropriate, possibly to include Youth Justice sector, Sector Skills Councils.

NB. This list is not exhaustive; there may be key representatives which sub regions maywish to put forward. Also, young persons’ representation has been considered. Theoutcome of this will depend upon the results of the forthcoming young people’sconsultation which forms part of this proposal.

Management of the Dance Hubs

Each hub will meet three times per year and be chaired by the Youth Dance StrategyManager or his representative. Each hub will agree a lead partner organisation (LPO)from their number to act as a banker and to take responsibility for the delivery,



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monitoring and evaluation of programmes as agreed with Yorkshire Dance and YouthDance England. This agreement will take the form of a contract or memorandum ofunderstanding between Yorkshire Dance and the LPO.

Remit of the Dance Hubs

The remit of the hubs will be:

• To secure a network of strategic and operational partners, stakeholders and funders for the delivery of youth dance in their sub region.

• To ensure delivery of Youth Dance England’s National Brief in the sub region, including appropriate participation in national and regional initiatives, marketing and communications, monitoring and evaluation

• To devise and to deliver a sub regional action plan focusing on the key national priorities of widening access, raising standards and improving progression routes. Hubs will have a menu of activities from which to choose. From this each hub must deliver New Moves and at least one sub regional dance platform as a minimum requirement. Otherwise they will be free to choose other menu items to reflect their own sub regional priorities, or even propose new ones, insofar as they are able to demonstrate they can meet at least one of the key national priorities. The plan will be subject to the approval of the Youth Dance Strategy Manager. See section I for details of the menu of activities

• To deliver dance activities, platforms, performances and schemes either alone or in partnership with other providers in accordance with the sub regional action plan.

• To work towards a quality assurance framework.• To establish a sub regional youth consultation group.• To lead on the progression routes mapping resource, Dance Routes• To report fully to Youth Dance England as required, through the Youth Dance

Strategy Manager.• To agree an exit strategy focusing on continued sub regional youth dance

development following the cessation of Youth Dance England’s investment.

How this meets the objectives and responds to the

regional context

This development addresses the need for a clear Youth Danceinfrastructure in the region, linking it clearly to the Nationalbrief given to Youth Dance England as the national strategicbody for young people and dance. The sub regional hubstructure allows alignment with other sectors’ ways ofworking and the cross sector partnerships at the heart of thehubs make it possible to respond to initiatives in othersectors and to match fund against them. In New Moves itdelivers a base level of activity, region wide, offering this to

some of the least well served districts for the first time.

B. The creation of two new support posts

Yorkshire Dance will create two new posts; one, a Youth Dance Administrator tosupport the hub development outlined above, and to provide administrative supportto the Youth Dance Strategy Manager. The second to administrate a new web resource(outlined below). Both posts are part-time, but there is scope for combining the twoposts into a full-time role, should a candidate be found with suitable skills to be able toundertake both roles.

Youth Dance Administrator post

This will be a 0.6 (3 days per week) post based at Yorkshire Dance with YorkshireDance as the Employing organisation.

Objectives of the Post

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• To provide administrative support to the Dance Hubs and to be their first point of contact

• To arrange, service and minute all meetings of the Dance Hubs• To supervise and maintain all administrative, monitoring and evaluation systems

and databases.• To collate and produce data for quarterly reports• To oversee the production of communications and marketing materials• To oversee the young peoples’ consultation (see below)• To deputise for the YDSM if required

Web Administrator Post

This will be a 0.4 (2 days per week) post based at Yorkshire Dance with YorkshireDance as the Employing organisation.

Objectives of the Post

• Liaising with the web developer, Yorkshire Dance and Youth Dance England.• To maintain all aspects of the new website.• Ensuring that it is up-to date and fit for purpose.• Ensuring that the site is safe for young people and complies with best practice and

statutory obligations with regard to data protection and users’ privacy.• Approving all content including messages, video and audio which will be placed

there by young people.• Ensuring a prominent position and ease of use for the Dance Routes resource

(see below), keeping it up to date and fit for purpose.

How this meets the objectives and responds to the regional context

The creation of these posts supports the infrastructure development represented bythe Dance Hubs and provides a clear reporting structure from the Dance Hubs toYouth Dance England via Yorkshire Dance. In addition, the web administrator post

supports improving and nurturing the regional offer to young people.

C. A new regional youth dance website:

We propose the piloting of asignificant new regional webresource for young people,teachers, sports coaches,dancers, dance professionals. Thewebsite will be a key driver andcommunication tool to supportthe sub regional partnershiphubs, to market youth danceactivities, to host informationadvice and guidance. This willsupercede and replace the ‘youth’section on the Yorkshire Dancewebsite.

We will seek out imaginative ways to ensure that the site engages and involves youngpeople. We will work with web developers to explore ways in which socialnetworking and file sharing technology can be used to make a safe space where theregions young people can watch, share and talk about dance, including message boardsand the ability to upload video content.

Remit of the website

• To become the ‘home’ for all youth dance information in our region.• To hold clear and easy to use information about the hubs, activities, events and

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• To provide message boards and a quick, helpful question and answer forum for young people.

• Linking to Yorkshire Dance’s Facebook and Myspace sites• To host the Dance Routes resource.• To clearly signpost users to other relevant information and websites, such as Youth

Dance England, Sport England, Change4Life.• To play a key marketing and advocacy role including the promotion of national

schemes, regional platforms and other events.• To signpost users to newsletters and other resources, to link to the national Youth

Dance Directory.• To develop the capacity for young persons’ message boards and the posting of

dance film and video.


The website meets the objective of improving and consolidating a regional dance offerfor young people. It provides a resource accessible to all young people regardless oflocation in our region. It will signpost to local and national activities and will provide aplatform for young people to discuss dance matters.

D. Ongoing Youth Consultation

We propose a detailed ongoing consultation with the region’s young people. To beoverseen by the Youth Dance Administrator, this will build on Yorkshire Dance’s recentconsultation (Mayhem 2008). Continuous consultation recognises that the world ofyouth arts moves quickly, that the forms which engage young people can changerapidly and that there is always a younger generation of young people coming intocontact with youth dance providers and accessing provision, whose voice may not yethave been heard.

• This consultation will link directly to Yorkshire Dance’s own programmes relating to the provision of classes workshops and courses, artist development and programming of dance performances

• We propose to use technology attractive to young people to establish a consultation group in each of the five hub areas. These groups will act as a resource for the hubs to help set operational priorities and to inform planning for 2011 and beyond.

• Some youth consultation is already taking place at sub regional level, and some groups of young people have already been established. Where not, we will ask the sub regional Dance Hubs to identify key young people in their area to be part of the consultation groups.

• The groups will meet regularly and will have access to a dance activity or other creative means of helping them to articulate their needs. Consultation topics will initially be set by the hubs, but young people will quickly be asked to take ownership of this.

• We also propose to hold some funds regionally to set up a region wide youththink tank which will be convened for consultation on specific themes or topics

• In both cases these young people will be signed up to a newly developed SMS text messaging service by which we can communicate meetings, events, opportunities and reminders and direct them to the Youth dance website.


This development helps consolidate the regional dance offer for young people,canvassing their views at regional and sub regional level so that their ideas andpreferences can be better catered for at both levels. Where this relates to theprovision that they may (or may not) be receiving from their school, college, youthgroup, sports club or similar, we will then have the evidence to open a dialogue withthose providers to seek ways that the provision can be improved or streamlined



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E. Annual Regional Youth Dance Platform

We will organise an annual regional youth danceplatform, to provide a focal point for all theyouth dance activity. The annual platform willalign itself with U.Dance, becoming a level 3platform within the National Youth DancePerformance Framework. Level 1 consists oflocal performances involving two or moreschools, level 2 are sub regional or ‘county-wide’

platforms. Levels 1 and 2 will be administered and supported by the Dance Hubs. Level4 is the national Youth Dance Festival in July 2010 and 2011, for which the regionalplatform will be the qualifying event for groups from within the Yorkshire region.• Any youth or community dance group in the region will be able to apply to take

part in the regional platform, but an invitation to take part will be at the discretion of Yorkshire Dance to ensure quality of provision and a fully diverse range of dance genres and styles to reflect the ethnic diversity of the region.

• At the time of writing (February 2008) Yorkshire Dance has already programmed a regional platform for July 2009 (note there is no National Youth Dance Festival in July 2009) under an existing brand name – Dansopolis.

• Dansopolis is unique because, in addition to offering performance opportunities to youth and community dance groups, it commissions an intergenerational commission from a top class choreographer to work with selected youth and community groups to devise, present and perform a new work to be performed by the young people. Past intergenerational commissions have been choreographed by Wayne McGregor and Luca Silvestrini among others. For Dansopolis 2009 we will commission Wendy Houstoun as guest choreographer.

• In the absence of a National Youth Dance festival in 2009, Dansopolis 2009 had already been programmed for July 2009. In order to act as qualifiers for the National Youth Dance Festivals in 2010 and 2011, our regional platform will need to move to March and become separate from Dansopolis, which will continue as a community platform.

• This will mean that a regional platform takes place twice in the financial year 2009/10 (Dansopolis in July 09, and a second platform in March 2010) Financial forecasts have been adjusted accordingly.


A strong regional platform provides the link between sub –regional platforms (which isa requirement from the Dance Hubs) and the National Youth Dance Festival. It is acornerstone in ensuring that U.Dance, the national youth dance performanceframework is delivered in the region. The platform also helps to consolidate the youthdance offer within the region and raise awareness of different forms of dance and thepossibilities for progressing within each of them

F. Kick Start

A pilot programme of extensive training, mentoring and support designed toencourage the establishment and development of youth dance groups in 4 localitieswhere there is currently little or no activity. This programme will be centrallymanaged and made available to purchase ‘off the shelf ’ by local authorities or anypartnership or organisation which feels that it should take the lead in establishing newactivity in its area.

Taking place in Year 2 only, the scheme is an intensive year long CPD programme fornew youth dance leaders or anyone who has responsibility for delivering activity toyoung people. Key features of the scheme are:

• An induction event• Development needs analysis for participating new youth dance leaders• 3 professional development days• Support from a professional practitioner to run taster sessions to establish a new

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• Mentoring sessions for new leaders with professional practitioners• Performance opportunities• Gradual handover of new youth dance group to new youth dance leaders• A small administration and transport budget for the new leadersThe scheme allows for at least 4 new leaders or teams of leaders to be trained in anygiven region or district.

As a pilot scheme, an extensive evaluation forms part of the programme and is writtenin to the budget. The findings will be widely disseminated via the new website.


Kick start has a clear impact on the objective to expand and develop the regionaldance force, delivering a high quality, self sustaining programme to the areas whichneed it most. It aims to raise the level and quality of provision in the least served areasto provide the base level of activity for future developments.

G. Regional targeted programmes

This proposal and the investment in infrastructure and the workforce which itrepresents positions the region to respond to a number of national agendas and policypriorities. These include the 5 hour cultural activity offer Find Your Talent, the 5 hourphysical activity offer and the emerging healthy living and anti obesity agenda.

Though it is too early to set out precise plans, detailed consultancy is underway.

Find Your Talent – The regional pathfinder in Yorkshire is Education Leeds/Leeds Citycouncil. The programme manager and support team came into post during January andFebruary and the YDSM has already met with the FYT team and key city wide contactsto discuss the place for dance within the emerging universal offer in the city. We havea commitment from the Find Your Talent team to work with us. They welcome the

infrastructure development proposed in this plan and recognise the investment thisbrings into Leeds. Together we estimate that Find Your Talent will result in an additional£20,000 per annum being spent on young people’s dance activity in Leeds over andabove the funds levered into the city as part of the West Yorkshire Hub. Additionalvalue is likely to be offered by further sectoral and infrastructural developmentsplanned within FYT, including addressing transport issues facing children and youngpeople. Both parties are committed to maximising the potential offered by theprogrammes’ complementary objectives and timescales (FYT’s pilot phase runs toMarch 2011). We have further meetings planned to agree a coherent delivery andreporting structure which services the needs of both initiatives.

We believe we can agree on a package that Yorkshire Dance and/or its partners candeliver in the near future. This would be entirely funded through Find Your Talent andcould be worth in the region of £20,000 per annum.

The Physical Activity Offer –Following initial consultationswith Sport England, Yorkshire wehave begun to explorepartnership working regardingthe possibilities for dance to playa role in this offer. A furthermeeting is due to take placewith the heads of the CountySports Partnerships later inFebruary to discuss a wayforward. At the very least, heads

of CSP’s will be invited to be represented on the hubs. In the meantime, it is clear thatwe could either work together regionally or through the Dance Hubs. For thepurposes of this plan we are assuming that the work would be managed regionally andworth in the region of £20,000 per annum




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Healthy Living – Consultations have taken place with both the public health leadofficer and the Physical Activities Manager at Government Offices for Yorkshire andthe Humber. The nature of this relationship is more strategic – indeed the PhysicalActivities Manager will be invited to join the strategy advisory group, but already thePhysical Activities Manager has helped to identify Primary Care Trusts who might joinDance Hubs and who in time may buy packages from Yorkshire Dance and/or itspartners. We are assuming that the value of this work will be in the region of £10,000and will take place in year 2 of this plan.


These programmes meet the objective of improving and consolidating a regional danceoffer for young people. It offers the opportunity to embed dance work into existingstructures and to unlock hitherto inaccessible funding schemes.

H. Strive to Achieve programmes

The Strive to Achieve strand is a regional strand about working with partners todevelop high quality programmes for young people which go beyond simpleparticipation and performance. These programmes are about helping young people toachieve their potential by engaging with professional practitioners of the highestpossible quality. We recognise that, at this stage of the plan that they are highlyaspirational, but we will work hard to identify partners and funding to allow them totake place. Programmes include:

• Dance Camp: A series of week-long ‘immersion’ residencies with leading dancers and choreographers, 1 per sub region. Dance camp links to the regional platform

• EU.Dance: cross-regional international Youth Dance Festival, bringing to the UK the best youth dance from across Europe. Co-hosted by Yorkshire, North East & North West. Each region will undertake to raise 1/3 of the cost in match funding

• North of England careers event: A key element in our strategy to ensure that progression routes are mapped and clarified and that young people have access to this information at a time and in a form which helps them and their families make informed decisions about how they progress in dance. We are in discussions with the Strategy Managers in the North East and North West and other potential partners about this to share costs and resources.

I. Dance Hubs: Menu of Activities

This is a list of proposed programmes of activity from which hubs may choose inorder to meet their remit. Delivering the national brief and participating in nationalprogrammes will be written into partnership agreements alongside delivering themandatory regional schemes.

National Programmes

• U.Dance: A national framework to stimulate and coordinate dance performances at local, county, regional and national levels in and outside of schools, underpinned by Continuing Professional Development for teachers. It aims to provide every child and young person with an opportunity to participate in a dance performance each year. The Dance Hubs will work to increase applications to this scheme and will actively promote the benefits of the scheme to schools and youth groups.

• Stride!: The Young Dance Entrepreneurs programme, which develops young dance leaders. The Dance Hubs will work to increase young peoples’ awareness of this scheme and its application process and will work alongside the Youth Dance Strategy Manager to increase the number of applications from the Yorkshire region.

• Young Creatives: An annual programme designed to showcase the work of talented young choreographers aged 15-19, giving them the valuable support and profile they need in order to progress in dance. The Dance Hubs will work to increase young people’s awareness of this scheme and its application process and




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will work alongside the Youth Dance Strategy Manager to increase the number of applications from the Yorkshire region.

• Dance Links: Training and networking opportunities for dance providers to connect with schools, delivered through the PESSYP funded programme. The Dance Hubs will work to promote this scheme among dance practitioners and the organisations who would receive them to increase numbers participating.

Three regional schemes will also be mandatory and there is an expectation that theDance Hubs will commit their devolved activity budgets towards them.

Regional programmes - compulsory

• Sub regional or county level performance platforms: Dance Hubs will be required to ensure that there is at least on such platform in their sub region per annum. This will tie the hubs into the national dance performance framework (at level 2) and give sub regional groups a route to the level 3 regional platform. Timings are to be agreed with the Youth Dance Strategy Manager and Youth Dance England to maximise opportunities for synergy with U.Dance

• New Moves: This is the umbrella name for new activity to be stimulated by the hub as a result of new investment. The hubs will be asked to show at least 45 hours per annum of new activity available for to up to 100 young people in their sub region. This works out at an average of 1 ½ hours per week over 3 annual ten week ‘terms’. Hubs may provide ongoing provision, but they may also count one off workshops, classes and short courses where appropriate. There is an expectation that this complements and ties in with exiting provision, but does not replace it.

• Dance Routes: Building on the Next Steps initiative (YDE 2006-8), we will ask each of the sub regional Dance Hubs to gather information on the youth dance opportunities for young people in each sub region. This information will be analysed and a map of provision will be produced and held on the new website. Hubs will work to identify schools , FE and HE providers offering dance. We will work with other key agencies such as Connexions, children’s services and

the new sub regional young people’s learning agencies to ensure the information we gather can fit into pre existing careers information frameworks and can be readily available to professionals outside of the dance industry and dance education system too. Dance Routes does not have a significant financial impact on the hubs, but there will be an implication for staff time.

Regional programmes - voluntary

These initiatives form a region-wide menu from which the hubs can choose in orderto supplement the New Moves activity they will be supporting. This gives a coherentregional framework within which the hubs can work. Many of these initiatives will bedependent on investment partners finding matching funding.

• Choreo: A young persons’ choreographic competition encouraging young people to make dance, nurturing creative talent. There is potential for this to feed into Young Creatives. We have discussed this as a joint initiative with NE & NW Regions.

• Inspirations: A ‘go and see’ fund to enable young persons’ visits to performances, events & conferences to support their progress in other initiatives such as New Moves, U.Dance & Dansopolis. We have discussed this as a joint initiative with NE & NW Regions.

• DANCEinterns: Placements for young people in the dance industry, offering insights into administrative, programming, creative or strategic management through tailored shadowing opportunities.

• Arts Award: Participation in any delivery strand may enable young people to have their involvement in dance accredited by Trinity Guildhall as part of the Arts Award (www.artsaward.org.uk). We will ask Dance Hubs to support this initiative, asking them to identify and work alongside the sub region’s advisors and centres to ensure that young people who wish to take up this offer are able to do so

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5. Risk assessment and exit strategy

Risk Assessment

The match funds we envisage being ableto secure are funds from stakeholderpartners who would ‘buy in’ the deliveryof some programmes. Given the currenteconomic climate, the extent of YouthDance England’s investment and thetimescale over which we have to deliverthese programmes, we have felt it prudentnot to rely on a strategy of fundraisingfrom other sources, public or private.

Joint delivery of programmes through the hubs and alongside stakeholding partnersincreases the strategic value of this programme and makes it more likely that workcan continue to have benefits for young people beyond the life of the programme.

Our stakeholding partners are from the sporting and health sectors as well as fromFind Your Talent. Each of these partners has a strategic or policy remit to engage youngpeople in cultural or physical activities, and have broadly welcomed our programme. Assuch we assess that the risk that we should fail to access the match funding toresource the entire programme is low to medium.

This business plan also serves as a bid to Youth Dance England for regional funds. It ispossible that funding requests may exceed the amounts available. While we are unableto assess this risk fully, we can say that this plan is broadly in priority order, with

the Dance Hubs and supporting programmes seen as the most important

to retain in order to meet the three key aims of increasing access, raising standardsand improving progression routes over the next two years. Even with only theseprogrammes the plan would still be fundamentally strong, although key opportunities

may start to be missed should some of the regional targeted programmes not be ableto take place.

Exit strategy

This plan covers a two year period and proposes a wide range of infrastructuredevelopment and activity. We have been mindful of the need to embed an exit strategyin this programme from its very beginnings.

Our exit strategy lies in two main areas.

1. High level strategic networking and regional advocacy for youth dance ensuring that it links to the policy priorities of Creative and Cultural Skills, Train to Gain

and the Learning and Skills Council among others. We are working with Government office for Yorkshire and the Humber and Yorkshire Forward and will continue to advise and lobby for young people with these bodies and many others.

2. The development of the hubs, which will remain as a resource in the region beyond the life of this funding. We will require that each of the hubs submits a detailed exit strategy as part of its partnership commitment to this plan. We would encourage the partnerships to consider ways in which they can embed youth dance work within existing structure and networks to ensure accessibility for young people beyond 2011.

Our challenge lies not only in the fact that there may be no further YDE funding after2011, but also that, with the run-up to the London Olympics, additional funds maybecome available from other sources and we wish to ensure that the infrastructure,workforce, and communication and development networks are in place to support it.In the light of this, our exit strategy will continue to develop over the next two years.




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6. Implications for management structure and staffing

Yorkshire Dance is already hosting the key role of the Youth Dance Strategy Manager.(YDSM), whose role is to work with Youth Dance England to deliver a nationalprogramme of work, as agreed with the Department of Children Schools and Families,the Department of Culture Media and Sport and Arts Council England, focussing onthe development of sustained opportunities for children and young people to danceboth in and out of school, across the Yorkshire region. This business plan recognisesthat increased investment in youth dance will mean that Yorkshire Dance will need toreconsider its staffing structure. We also propose the creation of a strategy advisorygroup comprising key regional contacts to act as a resource going forward.

Yorkshire Dance staffing

Please see Appendix 4 for a diagram showing the staffing structure for YorkshireDance. This plan proposes that Yorkshire Dance creates two new posts. These areoutlined in detail elsewhere in this application, but are in summary:

A new Youth Dance Administrator post (0.6 full time equivalent at £16,000 pro rata)

To support the YDSM, assisting with the implementation of this business plan, itsprogrammes and to manage Yorkshire Dance’s relationship with the Dance Hubs.

A new Website Administrator post(0.4 full time equivalent at £16,000 Pro rata)

To maintain and update the new enhanced youth website ensuring that it remains fitfor purpose and is a safe space for young people.

Both posts will be based at Yorkshire Dance, line managed by the YDSM.

Strategy Advisory Group

The nature of the relationship between Youth Dance England as the strategic bodyresponsible for youth dance and Yorkshire Dance as the regional authority is clear (seediagram in Appendix 5). As an additional resource we propose the creation of aregional strategy advisory group to act as a resource for Yorkshire Dance and theYouth Dance Strategy Manager.

The group would inform the running of the two year business plan and lead onstrategic development of further regional youth dance work from 2011 – 2014. Weenvisage membership to be small, and have invited or will invite the following people:

• Gillian Waite - Skills Adviser, Learning and Skills Council, Yorkshire and the Humber • Heather Kennedy - Senior Development Manager, Sport England , Yorkshire• Caroline Emmerson – Physical Activity Lead at Government office in Yorkshire• Jan Burkhart – PCT Leeds (with national strategic remit on dance and physical

activity)• And either Stephanie Simms or Pam Johnson (Dance Officer) from Arts Council

England, Yorkshire

The group would meet twice per year, the Youth Dance Strategy Manager will be inattendance and the meetings will be chaired by the director of Yorkshire Dance.

Regional Dance Development Network Group

This is an existing group mainly made up of youth dance practitioners, representativesfrom dance companies, local authorities, education and the sports sector. The grouphas been an invaluable resource in indentifying and sharing good practice in the regionsince its inception in 2004. It meets four times per year and will advise the YorkshireDance team on developments in youth dance practice throughout the life of thisbusiness plan.




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7. Monitoring, Evaluation and Dissemination

These programmes will be following the monitoring and reporting structures set outby Youth Dance England. YDE has a comprehensive set of data gathering, monitoringand communications procedures already in place and it is written in to YorkshireDance’s agreement that the regional body follows these procedures. Theserequirements will also be written into the agreements with all hub lead partners andall other partners undertaking delivery as part of these programmes.

The data we will be collecting:

Numbers of

• Youth Groups, practitioners, organisations, networks and schools engaged.• Continuing Professional Development sessions delivered.• Sign-ups to the Youth dance database.• Sign-ups to regional newsletters, hits to the website, hits to the new youth section

of the website.• Young people participating. Plus their age, sex, ethnicity and disability status.• Events and conferences, bursaries, mentoring or training sessions.• Dance sessions delivered.• New network links and number of organisations to which funds were devolved.

We will be filing quarterly monitoring reports containing these statistics. We will alsobe filing quarterly financial reports upon which the following quarter’s funding will bedependent. For a full reporting schedule see Appendix 5. In addition to this we will bereporting on the milestones outlined on pages 23 and 24.

Youth Dance England will use these statistics to produce a national evaluation. We canalso use the statistics regionally to gauge effectiveness. Piloted regional schemes willalso have an evaluation framework built into them.

The website will be a key dissemination tool. Good practice will also be disseminatedthrough existing networks such as the Regional Dance Development Network. TheYouth Dance Strategy manager will attend national and regional and conferences,events and seminars to make presentations and hub partners will be encouraged toarrange sub regional events to share practice and findings.




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Appendices

1. More information about Youth Dance England and Yorkshire Dance 262. Participation Targets 293. Yorkshire Dance Staff Structure 324. Overview of Funding & Advisory Relationships for Youth Dance 335. Management, Monitoring & Reporting Schedule 34




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APPENDIX ONE

Youth Dance England – More information

Youth Dance England is the national organisation that champions, supports anddevelops dance for young people. We work to create the conditions that ensure everyyoung person can access high quality dance and progress their interest both in andoutside of school. Through a shared vision with our national network of RegionalPartner Organisations we aim to increase access, raise standards and improveprogression routes. Our RPOs include:

North East Dance City NewcastleNorth West The Lowry, SalfordYorkshire Yorkshire Dance, LeedsEast Midlands Dance4, NottinghamWest Midlands DanceXchange, BirminghamEast The Junction, Cambridge London Sadler’s WellsSouth East Hampshire Dance, EastleighSouth West Dance South West, Bournemouth

Over the next three years with £5.5 million investment from Arts Council England,Department for Children Schools and Families and Department for Culture, Mediaand Sport, we will work closely with the nine Youth Dance Strategy Managers, based inthe RPOs, and key national organisations to increase the amount of high quality danceactivity available to young people, so that dance is fully embedded in a developingculture offer for children and young people.

Uniquely our work contributes to both government targets of delivering 5 hours ofphysical activity and 5 hours of cultural activity per week to all young people. We willwork closely with the Find Your Talent hubs, Specialist Schools & Academies Trust andYouth Sport Trust to make a more cohesive dance offer for young people. Dance is thesecond most popular physical activity to football and particularly attractive to girls and

young women who can be resistant to participating in sport. It is also a powerful artform for young people who find it a potent medium for artistic expression anddefining cultural identity. Our work delivers Arts Council England’s priority ofengaging more children and young people in the arts and also its objectives: increasingreach, improving engagement and promoting diversity and excellence.

For the period 2008-2011, our work will focus on three key priorities:• to widen access to dance;• to raise the quality of dance provision for young people through a clear

framework of standards in dance practice and;• to improve progression routes for young people wishing to pursue a career in

dance.

We are working towards an aspiration for every child and young person being able toaccess high quality dance as participants and viewers in their school and near wherethey live, and progress their interest to whatever level they wish and are able.

To do this we are:• Developing U.Dance - a national framework to stimulate and coordinate dance

performances at local, county, regional and national levels in and outside of schools, underpinned by Continuing Professional Development for teachers. It aims to provide every child and young person with an opportunity to participate in a dance performance each year.

• Making links between schools, dance providers and Centres for Advanced

Training so that more children and young people can extend their involvement in dance.

• Extending Stride! the Young Dance Entrepreneurs programme, which develops young leaders. Following a successful pilot in 2008 the programme will be made available nationally from 2009, to provide young advocates to encourage participation in dance.

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support and profile they need in order to progress in dance.• We will produce a nationally recognised qualification, in partnership with

other dance organisations, in order to increase the number of skilled dance teachers able to work with children and young people in informal settings.

• We will extend training and networking opportunities for dance providers to connect with schools, delivered through the PESSYP funded Dance Links

programme. • We will pilot new School Dance Coordinator posts, to raise standards in

dance teaching in schools. • Conferences 2009 and 2010 will bring the dance profession together to share

practice, information and input on developing national strategy• Improving and extending information and resource services including the

interactive Youth Dance Directory , YDE web site, Careers in Dance pdf and dance space directory

• Y’D Screen – a dance film programme for young people• Developing practice in Dance and Health through bringing together key players

to co-ordinate research and developments in the field (Further projects to be initiated when additional funding is in place).

There is much ground to be covered in a relatively short period of time. We areconfident that we can make a significant change to the provision of young people’sdance over the next three years and create firm foundations for future developments.

Yorkshire Dance – More information

Yorkshire Dance aims to inspire people’s lives through dance.

Yorkshire Dance is a national development agency for dance in Yorkshire and fulfils astrategic development role for the dance sector whilst leading on creative initiatives.

Yorkshire Dance is a ‘home’ for dance - a place where dance is discovered, created,

learned, investigated and developed in a safe, supportive and professional environment.Yorkshire Dance aims to build the regional infrastructure for dance. We plan to dothis within three main strategic priorities:

1. Artist Development2. Community and Education (including Youth Dance)3. Programming and audience development

Artistic Policy

Yorkshire Dance nurtures and develops dance, dance artists and dance audiences andchampions excellence and innovation across the dance sector. Underpinning theprogramme of performances and education work is an artistic policy that broadlyspeaking outlines the commitment to contemporary dance (including dance theatreand pure dance), work led by dance forms with Black origins (including African, Jazzand Urban/Hip hop) and contemporary Asian work. This policy is available in ourbusiness plan and includes our position on collaboration, developing contemporarypractice, interdisciplinary work, disabled artists, and the relationship betweencommunity and professional practice:

“Yorkshire Dance is keen to create an ongoing exchange between the non-professional (community) and professional field, believing firmly in the potential forartistic and personal growth for both professional artists and non-professionalcontributors that this engenders.”

Core Funding

Youth participation is a key priority for both core funders of Yorkshire Dance. In ourfunding agreement with ACE Yorkshire for 2009/10 Youth Dance features as one of thefour key programmes:

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two year strategic development programme for which money will be confirmed inApril 2009, which will focus on widening access, raising standards and improvingprogression routes regionally. This will include YD delivering national projects, andYorkshire’s own CPD and delivery projects, including a Regional Dance Platform. Aspart of the underpinning of this strategy we continue to host and strengthen theRegional Dance Development Network.”

In the same agreement, 7 out of the 20 deliverables relate directly to working withyoung people. For Leeds City Council we deliver ongoing work with disadvantagedyoung people in at least one area of neighbourhood renewal, as well as our annualholiday project in collaboration with all the other major arts clients in the city.

Key aims 2009 - 2010

The position of youth dance and regional development is further contextualised withinour key aims. By working through a range of partnerships and networks, YorkshireDance aims to:• Develop a vibrant and confident dance sector in Yorkshire and imbed dance within

the wider regional infrastructure.• Establish Yorkshire Dance as a home for dance; a centre for creation, innovation

and exploration.• Identify and nurture emerging creative talent in Yorkshire.• Support independent dance artists to develop their skills and practice.• Develop the quality and growth of Community Dance practice in the region.• Engage diverse communities with dance participation.• Work with Youth Dance England in delivering a two year strategic youth dance

plan that aims to widen participation, raise standards and improve progression routes.

• Build thriving, growing and sustainable audiences for dance.

Context

Historically Yorkshire Dance has demonstrated its ongoing commitment to youngpeople in a range of ways some of which are directly relevant to meeting the abovementioned aims. Our flagship regional celebration of youth and community dance‘Dansopolis’ remains an important part of the annual calendar – giving children fromas young as 2 years old a chance to perform and work with leading artists. Theemphasis on strategic regional development within the Youth Dance plan is a vital toolfor our development as agency with regional significance: we are in the process ofwriting an audience development plan for the region, followed next year by an artistdevelopment plan which will be fully integrated with the Youth Dance plan.




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