Contact Details
Contact Name: Dawn Vickers MD
Address: Suite 2 Waterside, St James Court West, Accrington BB5 1NA
Telephone: 07875 118015
Email: dawn@dancesyndrome.co.uk or info@dancesyndrome.co.uk
Website: www.DanceSyndrome.co.uk
Mission Statement
To be a sustainable charity and leading community role model that provides high quality inclusive dance leadership, participation, performance and training opportunities for both learning disabled and non-disabled individuals and our company of dancers.
DanceSyndrome dance activities are underpinned by a number of principles:
- Recognising people as assets by developing creative partnerships between disabled and non-disabled individuals
- Building on people’s capabilities by providing inclusive dance peer support opportunities
- Promoting affinity and mutual benefit through the medium of dance by exploring how dance can create social change in individual lives
- Breaking down barriers between ‘professionals’ and non-professionals
- Devising dance activities that are accessible through a range of different techniques that increase health and well- being amongst participants
- Facilitating growth and opportunities through dance rather than ‘just delivering’
- Pursuing excellence in all that we do in order to and promote creativity and become influential to create significant impact
Purpose
- Disability and Dancer Led
- Act as a beacon of excellence for dance participation for the learning disabled
- Nurture a new approach towards improving health and well-being
- Create sustainable collaborative and co-led activities
- Enhance employability skills by increasing leadership opportunities
Services
- Provision of inclusive community dance workshops across Lancashire and Greater Manchester, co-delivered by a trained dance leader with learning disabilities and a non-disabled dance leader or dance artist
- Dance leadership training and qualifications for both disabled and non-disabled dancers who aspire to run their own community dance workshops
- Dance development and performance opportunities for both disabled and non-disabled dancers
- Inclusive practices training, delivered to Universities, schools, private sector and third sector
- Student placements in partnership with UCLan’s Health and Social Care and Dance undergraduate courses
- Volunteering opportunities for dance leaders
People
- Employees: 2
- Freelance: 5
- Volunteers: 25
- Service users: 90
Categories of Registration
- Health and Well-being services provider
- Training provider
