Our Partners and Affiliates

Safe in Dance International works across the international dance sector to support, develop, encourage and endorse the implementation of healthy dance practice to increase enjoyment, optimise technique and performance and reduces risk of injury. Our partnerships are essential to us and greatly valued. They range from membership organisations who share our mission and vision and who support and endorse our work to Universities and awarding organisations who endorsed, deliver or offer our Certificates or the content of our Core Principles in a variety of ways. We also have a range of informal affliliate organisations who are likeminded and with whom we share a vision to create a safer more supportive dance environment.

If you would like further information on how your organisation might partner or work with Safe in Dance International please contact Maggie Morris: maggie@safeindance.com.

Partner Organisations

International Association for Dance Medicine & Science (IADMS)

IADMS supports and endorses Safe in Dance International’s Core Principles of Healthy Practice.  IADMS includes the Healthy Dance Practice Certificate as a requirement for Dance Educators to receive the IADMS Recognised Professional Certificate.

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IADMS is a global network of medical professionals, educators, dancers and researcher.  We are committed to promoting best practice in the clinic and in the classroom for dancers worldwide.  Through our programmes and services IADMS continues to better the health of dancers and advance the use of dance to improve health outcomes.
www.iadms.org
facebook.com/iadms

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National Institute of Dance Medicine and Science (NIDMS)

NIDMS and SiDI work together to promote the education mission of NIDMS and the vision of SiDI particularly, but not exclusively, through the development of the Healthy Dance Practice Certificates and related activities.

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Through shared expertise and a network of multidisciplinary partners NIDMS works to provide the dance sector with access to high quality, affordable, dance specific, health care and dance science support services in private practice and the NHS.  These services are underpinned by dance medicine and science research, including that developed and implemented by NIDMS partners.  Best practice, information and resources are disseminated to the wider dance and health community through educational workshops, conferences and publications.

www.nidms.co.uk

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Healthy Dancer Canada

Healthy Dancer Canada is a partner organisation, endorsing and supporting SiDI’s Core Principles of Healthy Dance Practice.

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Healthy Dancer Canada envisions a dynamic culture that welcomes everyone to experience and share the art of dance in all its significance and greatness. We imagine a movement in which healthy practices honour and support the diverse roots, forms, and expressions of dance.  Healthy Dancer Canada’s mission is to empower dancers and all who engage with the art of dance by nurturing a culture of wellness within a vibrant dancing community.

www.healthydancercanada.org

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Council for Dance Drama and Musical Theatre (CDMT)

SiDI is an affiliate of the CDMT who have quality assured and endorsed all our certificates to award recognised Continuing Professional Development.

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CDMT’s mission is to ensure that all children and young people experience the power of the performing arts, starting with the schools and early years settings where they find their first opportunities, progressing to specialist provision in support of their skills development. Further, for those to whom the performing arts represents a viable and valuable career option, CDMT advocates strongly for secure access to and support for, professional vocational training to secure the pipeline of performers and teachers upon whom the future of the creative sector depends.

Their vision is to provide leadership in the performing arts sector through representing and advocating on behalf of, a diverse range of high-quality providers, as well as providing valuable quality assurance, membership and information services. To do this with authority, we will operate on an intelligence-led basis underpinned by up-to-date and in-depth information—preparing for the future by strengthening the organisation both in itself and its structures and in terms of its reach.

“The programme of Continuing Professional Development delivered by Safe in Dance International (SiDI) is endorsed by the Council for Dance Drama and Musical Theatre, confirming SiDI as a CDMT Affiliate.”  Glyn Jones, Director, CDMT

www.cdmt.org.uk

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Affiliates and Associated Organisations and Universities

Imperial Society for Teachers of Dancing (ISTD)

SiDI and the ISTD have worked together in a range of ways on developing Units and Assessment for safe dance practice units for their teaching qualifications.

The content of the ISTD’s required safe dance practice Unit of the ISTD Qualification’s The Diploma in Dance Education and the Diploma in Community Dance Teaching. Both of these units are approved and quality assured by Safe in Dance International.’  They address Core Principles 1 & 3 of Healthy Dance Practice as developed by Safe in Dance International and supported by the International Dance Science community.  Learners attaining the required elements of this unit will have reached the agreed level of knowledge required of a dance teacher in these areas.

Trinitylaban UK

SiDI has had a long and fruitful partnership with TL. We annually deliver an online course leading to the Healthy Dancer Certificate and the Healthy Dance Practice Certificate to students on the following courses at TrinityLaban:

• BSc Dance Science
• MFA Dance Science
• MSc Dance Science

www.trinitylaban.ac.uk

Chichester University

Chichester University offers the healthy Dance Practice Certificate to its BSc Students. This is delivered by Edel Quin MSc a SiDI approved provider and faculty member at Chichester.

www.chi.ac.uk