NEW OUT Safe Dance Practice: an applied dance science perspective - written by Edel Quin, Sonia Rafferty and Charlotte Tomlinson. The authors are all members of our SIDI team. This book is the first of its kind and covers all aspects of the Healthy Dance Practice Certificates. Available to order at Human Kinetics [...]
October 28th - 31st 2022 Limerick Ireland We are looking forward to the IADMS annual conference in Limerick, Ireland at the end of October. The SiDI Team will be attending and would love to meet with you. Our stand will be manned throughout the conference. Sonia, Maggie, Tina and Beth will be in and out of the presentations and ready to chat to you SIDI is also thrilled to have been invited by IADMS to present our first pre-conference event. Dancing & Dance Science: The symbiotic relationship between dance research and practitioner wisdom Thursday October 27th 2022 In person at the Irish World Academy Music and Dance, Limerick & online 2.30 - 5.30pm GMT+1 BOOK NOW About the event:This afternoon [...]
Safe in Dance International and International Association for Dance Medicine & Science present Safe Dance Practice in Quarantine: A live panel conversation for educators, with IADMS and SiDI leaders on Saturday, April 25th from 17:00-18:30 British Summer Time (BST) 12:00-13:30pm Eastern Standard Time (EST). Join us on Facebook LIVE via the Science for Dance Educators page. Panellists: Sonia Rafferty, Jen Deckert, Ellie Kusner and Sutton Anker If you are a Dance educator of any level or a dancer (student, pre-professional, or professional), you are invited to join, ask questions and listen to the conversation with the international panel. This discussion is an international collaboration between IADMS and Safe in Dance International leaders on how to dance safely while at home during quarantine. The Coronavirus epidemic has hit our live dance activities [...]
We have recently released some guidance on participating and delivering dance classes online. Please read and share with others... https://www.safeindance.com/guidance-online-classes/ [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
One Dance UK today announced the names of 27 shortlisted nominees, across nine award categories, for its inaugural Dance Teaching Awards. One Dance UK received 886 nominations from pupils, parents, colleagues and friends of hundreds of teachers, practitioners and dance organisations across the UK, that provide opportunities for children and young people to dance. The shortlisted nominees were carefully chosen by a selection panel made up of industry professionals brought together to represent a broad range of education knowledge and expertise. The selection panel of Geoff Barton, Althea Efunshile (CBE), Linda Jasper (MBE), Carolyn Lappin and Piali Ray (OBE) said: We are very proud to have been asked to select the finalists in this ground-breaking first year of the One [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
Guidelines for Stretching - Warm up first. Never stretch a cold muscle! - By warming up first, the delivery of oxygen and nutrients are increased thus preparing muscles for strenuous activity. - Warming up should not be too tiring, but just enough to begin perspiring. - Usually a light jog for 5-7 minutes is sufficient. Read More... [...]
