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Staffordshire Dance Collective -
6-week course with Julia Griffin

Staffordshire Dance Collective is excited to host a course of 6 workshops with guest artist Julia Griffin.

When: Mondays, 28th February - 4th April 2011, 5.30pm - 7.00pm.

Price: £25.00

Where: Dance Studio, Stoke-on-Trent College - (Burslem Campus), Moorland Road, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire ST6 1JJ.

Julia Griffin is a freelance dance artist operating in the UK and Europe with extensive knowledge and experience in teaching, performing and choreographing contemporary dance and dance video/film. She has worked with professional dance artists and companies, along with established artists from diverse disciplines. In a career spanning over 20 years she has investigated, explored and experimented with dance. This journey of ongoing collaborations between dance and choreographic practice and film/video medium in a contemporary context challenge the symbiotic relationship that exists between dance, camera, body and site, performer and viewer. She is passionate about unlocking the potential to create new ways of moving through artistic collaboration, devising new methodologies for creating original and thought provoking works that encourage participation and cross fertilization of art forms.

Staffordshire Dance Collective

Workshop Content: The primary goal of this course is to emphasise the joy of dancing and allow participants to find pleasure in movement. The work comes from an anatomical perspective and looks at the articulation of the skeletal frame in order to generate momentum from bone weight, rather than through muscular tension. The classes aim to help participants develop a strong individual presence and provide an opportunity for playful experimentation as well as hard work. The main focal points are use of the breathe and its connection to action, the use of anatomical improvisation to generate heat within the body, the isolation of individual bone structures within the frame and the establishment of multiple connections to the floor, and directions of energy through, around and in the body.

Level: This course is suitable for professional dance artists, teachers, recent graduates and third year dance students.

Please note the cost is for the whole course and therefore it will be expected that you attend all workshops where possible.

Places on the course are limited, so to book contact Clare Reynolds on 07989989018 or admin@staffsdancecollective.co.uk.

For more information about this workshop and sdc please visit our website.

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Promoting Positive Activities for Young People News Sheets – Issue 10

The latest activity news sheets are now available to download! Please click here to view the February editions of the YouFind activity news sheets.

Reminder

Activities put on the YouFind website need to have a good description which will attract young people to take part; is should sound interesting and appealing and should inform young people exactly what to expect when attending the activity. Similarly, the key words for each activity are essential for when young people enter key words in the activity search box. Don’t forget you can also add news items if you want to advertise a particular activity in more detail.

March News Sheets

If you would like to promote your activities in the News Sheets you need to register on http://www.youfind.me.uk/directory/frontpage.aspx and input your organisation, activity and venue details.

If you have any queries about the YouFind website or news sheets, please e-mail jemma.matthews@staffordshire.gov.uk. If you have any queries about any of the uniform activities included in the news sheets please call Staffordshire Council of Voluntary Youth Services on 01785 240378.

Thank you

Thank you for your continued support, the YouFind website would not be such a success without so many organisations registering and adding their activities.

Jemma Matthews
Administrative Assistant County Services
T: 01785 278782

E: jemma.matthews@staffordshire.gov.uk
W: www.staffordshire.gov.uk

National Trust
Great walks leaflets

Each leaflet offers simple route directions, a map and interesting things to discover along the way - yours to download for free. More walks are being added all the time. You can search by ‘theme’ or by ‘region’ – take a look.

Sport & Recreation Alliance

Catch up with February's edition of the Sport and Recreation Alliance's Policy Update. In it you will find news on proposals to charge organisers for the cost of policing events, ticket touting, roles in the committee which advises on adventurous activities and an important event on betting integrity.

Sport & Recreation Alliance Policy Update - February 2011

FREE Marketing Training for Personal Trainers

Are you a personal trainer? Or do you know any personal trainers who would appreciate some free marketing training?

This free 1-hour teleseminar will help Personal Trainers (including dance instructors, yoga teachers, aeroics instructors, etc.) to:

get more clients
learn the tips and tricks used by sports and activity organisations to market themselves
learn about free activity marketing resources they can access online

To sign up or find out more go to www.marketingpersonaltrainers.com

John Ainsworth
Email: john@makesportfun.com

T: 020 3239 8824
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Learning Disability Newsletter

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More information here.

Jamie Leaning
Disability Community Sports Coach
Staffordshire FA
T: 01785 256994 (option 2 then 5)
M: 07816536446
W: www.Staffordshirefa.com

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