Anjali Dance Company has three parts to its education and outreach programme:

• Teaching dance to people with learning disabilities and delivering vocational training to dancers with learning disabilities as they progress.
• The work of the Anjali Youth Dance Company.
• The Education Team and its work in delivering particpation opportunities and education and outreach events.

Education Team and Outreach Activities

There is a pdf about Anjali's Education and Outreach services available. You can download it here.

Education.pdf

Information on the Education Team members is available here.

Anjali Dance Company offers residencies and workshops run by dancers and workshop leaders with learning disabilities. There are a number of types of workshop activity the Company delivers, including:

• Residencies - a progressive sequence of linked workshops, possibly with a climactic outcome (sharing / performance).
• Participation workshops primarily for people with learning disabilities.
• Themed workshops in association with touring productions, for a range of audiences including inclusive audiences with a mix of people with and without disabilities.
• INSET: One-off or a series of workshops for professionals (whether in dance, teaching or health) interested in the possibilities of creative work by and for people with learning disabilities.
• Awareness Raising: Workshops usually for people without disabilities intended to raise awareness of the potential of people with learning disabilities or challenge preconceptions: e.g. in the context of communication skills training.
• Seminars / demonstrations in combination with workshop activity or standalone.

"We fully endorsed the way the Anjali dancers took ownership of their company and led all the sessions with appropriate support. This is inclusive and excellent and an example to us all."
Alistair McIntosh, Senior Teacher, Action for Children, Penhurst School

Activities are dance-based and are suitable for groups of people with learning disabilities, physical disabilities, without disabilities or integrated / inclusive groups. Recent clients include schools, colleges, universities, professional associations (occupational therapists), professionals from the health & social services sectors, local authorities, arts centres and arts organisations, self advocacy groups and other disability organisations.