Dance your way to creativity
By Sue Mennell (25-03-2008)
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Acting on recommendations by Tony Hall, chair of Creative and Cultural skills, the government has pledged £5.5 million to get young people dancing.
Dancing addresses many of the problems faced by young people, including expressing creativity, team working, promoting health and tackling obesity.
The 2006/7 sport survey by the Department of Children, Schools and Families found that dance is the second most popular type of formal sport in schools. Now a national dance strategy will ensure young people have access to dance, both in and out of schools. Six Centres of Advanced Training will also be created by 2011 to provide places for around 1,500 young people who want to take dance to the next level.
Culture Minister, Margaret Hodge said: "Dance is one of our oldest art forms and one that people can take part in, or simply watch, at just about any age or degree of skill and experience. Dance is also triumphantly eclectic, drawing in styles and forms from all over the world and from every tradition. I am thrilled that young people will now have access to a higher standard of provision, and that the dance sector itself has now received the further recognition it so richly deserves."
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