The Safe in Dance International team are delighted to have been invited to develop and present a workshop at the International Association for Dance Medicine & Science (IADMS) Annual Conference which will be held in Melbourne Australia this year. When: Sunday Sept 27th 2026Where: Melbourne Australia University of Melbourne Campus Time: 2.00pm – 5.00pm AESTOverview Dance teachers are facing increasing expectations that can extend far beyond technique and performance.  Important areas such as mental wellbeing, identity, social and cultural experiences are factors that need to be taken into consideration in the studio and can have an influence in how dance is taught, experienced, performed and enjoyed. Following our Stirring the Pot event at the IADMS Meeting in Limerick in 2022, [...]

Remaining Course dates: 28th May and 25th June. Time: 1pm – 7pm Location: Body Harmonics, Toronto, 672 Dupont Street, Suite 406 Cost: $120 per workshop or $410 for all four dates The course will be delivered by SiDI registered Provider Hannah Etlin-Stein. To Book please contact Hannah on safedancepractice@gmail.com www.hannahetlinstein.com/safe-dance-practice [...]

Launching this week: Keep an eye out for the launch of our new online course; Preparing for Safer Dance Practice, which has been developed by us and in partnership with People dancing. Whatever your genre or style, this programme will support your practice and offer CPD that you can do from home. This programme is relevant to all dance practitioners world-wide. If delivers all the content for the Preparation for Healthy Dance Certificate, which offers 6 hours of CPD. [...]

Many congratulations to our Associate, Charlotte Tomlinson for winning the’ Inspirational Community Dance Practitioner’ at the One Dance UK Dance Teaching Awards. On receiving the award Charlotte said: “I am speechless, those who know me know just how much this means” Charlotte is an independent dance teacher who embeds Healthy Dance Practice in everything she does. After achieving her MSc in Dance Science from TrinityLaban Charlotte lectured at Chichester College before combining her role as freelance dance practitioner with lecturing at Leicester College. She has been part of the SiDI team since the beginning, becoming our first registered provider and delivering one of our first courses. She also co-authored Safe Dance Practice, An applied dance science perspective with Edel Quin [...]

SiDI Registered Provider (RP)  Janine Bryant stepped in to deliver the ISTD Unit on Dance Science in August.  This unit has been written by Erin Sanchez (also a SiDI RP) on behalf of Safe in Dance International and the ISTD. The Unit, part of the ISTD level 6 teaching qualification, covers all of Safe in Dance International's 10 Core Principles.  Janine travelled from her base in Pennsylvania to deliver the unit in London.  Kath Bye from the ISTD's Education and Training Department said: "Janine's lectures were insightful, dynamic and clear for the learners to understand. Janine's approach looked at the important principles of Dance Science in particular looking at Safe Dance Practice core principles and ensuring that the learners were [...]