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The Certificate in Healthy Dance Practice (HDPC)

IADMS 5% discounted rate £180.50

The Healthy Dance Practice Certificate (HDPC) is designed for teaching, leading or directing dancers in any setting and in any style. This Certificate asks you to provide evidence of your knowledge and practical application of the SiDI Core Principles to your teaching practice. This is done by submitting a variety of materials for review – further detailed guidance on how to complete the HDPC is available in the Candidate pack provided on registration. By attaining this Certificate you will evidence your understanding of the inter-related factors that contribute to and enhance healthy dance practice and support the physical and mental wellbeing of participants.

The HDPC covers SiDI’s 10 core principles of Healthy Dance Practice including how body works biomechanically to promote good alignment, how good injury awareness and management can protect dancers, why proper nutrition and hydration is important to maintain dancers’ health and performance while they dance and why psychological elements should be taken into consideration to ensure a safe and effective learning environment. While these are all essential to providing a positive dance experience, it is vital that they are applied with the specific participant group’s needs, abilities and desired outcomes in mind. Your submitted materials will demonstrate both your knowledge and application of all of the Core Principles, with direct attention paid to your specific dancers and stylistic context.

Please note this is not a course.

Healthy Dancer Certificate (HDC)

IADMS 5% discounted rate £180.50

The Healthy Dancer Certificate allows individual dancers, working in any genre or style to show how their own practice is informed by healthy dance principles. It focusses on the individual dancer, in training or as a professional, maintain their unique dancing body in order to optimise performance and minimise the risk of injury.

This Certificate asks you to provide evidence of your understanding of the SiDI Core Principles, in relation to you as a dancer by submitting a variety of materials for review – further detailed guidance on how to complete the HDC is available in the Candidate pack provided on registration.  Working towards this Certificate will improve your understanding of the inter-related factors that contribute to and enhance your physical and mental wellbeing to safeguard and protect your own body while participating in dance activities.

Please note this is not a course.

The Certificate in Preparation for Healthy Dance (PHDC)

IADMS 5% discounted rate £33.25

Dancers perform, rehearse and learn to dance in all kinds of spaces, inside and outside. It is essential that dancers and those leading dance know how to address any risk factors that they come across within their own dancing environment. It is also important that you understand what optimum conditions are and why it is important to strive for these.

The assessment for this Certificate asks you to answer questions on the ideal dance environment and how to mediate negative effects of less than optimum conditions.

The Certificate requires you to demonstrate that you are aware of the fundamental factors that support safety and wellbeing when preparing to dance in any environment, indoors or outdoors, in a theatre, rehearsal space or studio. In order to achieve the Certificate you will need to show knowledge on topics such as space size, appropriate flooring and preferred temperature. Information on country-specific legal requirements, fire regulations and an understanding of assessing risks, safeguarding dancers and relevant insurance is also required.

Preparing for Safer Dance Practice e-learning programme

£70.00 GBP

This four-unit online programme, developed by Safe in Dance International (SiDI) and People Dancing provides any dance practitioner – teacher, leader, director or dancer – with the knowledge needed to integrate and manage safe and healthy practice principles into all dance learning or working environments. Applicable to all dance styles it can also be used in relation to any context, whether working with children or adults, beginners or professionals.

This course contains all the content needed to undertake the Preparation for Healthy Dance Certificate, plus an introduction to other relevant SiDI Core Principles, such as warm up and cool down and working with dancers’ individual anomalies. It also awards 4 hours of Continuing Professional Development.

Purchase Safe in Dance International’s core text below:

Safe Dance Practice: an applied dance science perspective

By Edel Quin, Sonia Rafferty and Charlotte Tomlinson

£34.00 GBP (plus postage and packing) UK only

This seminal book is a must have for anyone working in dance. It is written by key members of the SiDI team and has been adopted as the core text for all our courses and certificates. It comprehensively covers the Safe in Dance International Ten Core Principles of Healthy Dance Practice.

Safe Dance Practice bridges the gap between research and application for dancers and dance educators at all levels. The book presents integrated guidelines and principles that will maximize physical and mental well being without compromising creativity and expression.

Please note: Because of the increase in international postal rates this is only available to UK residents. Outside of the UK the book can be purchase on Amazon or through Human Kinetics.

ISBN-10 9781450496452

ISBN-13 9781450496452