Strength 2 Strength
The Strength 2 Strength programme is Dance Leaders Group’s next exciting phase of activity for the region. It focuses on skills and capacity building for artists, organisations and young emerging talent. It comprises 3 interlinked strands which are complemented by the region’s existing activity. These are:
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Training & Skills Development
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Networking, Sharing & Events
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Progression Routes into Dance
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​Launching in October 2024, the programme of activity will run until March 2025, and the findings will be shared at the DLG Spring Summit in April 2025.
About The Project
Outcomes for Strength 2 Strength include:
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Confident dance artists / leaders / partners with expertise in inclusive working, increasing employability
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Joined up regionwide approaches to professional / talent development and creative collaboration.
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Strengthened, connected communities with a shared sense of identity
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More disabled young people across the West Midlands can imagine working professionally in dance.
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High quality documentation and evaluation resources support ongoing partnership building and fundraising, particularly with non-arts partners
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The Project Manager for Strength 2 Strength is Sophie Humphries, Engagement Producer at FABRIC. Sophie is leading on Keep Moving, the legacy project from the hugely successful DLG project Critical Mass. Keep Moving has complimentary outputs to S2S around increasing opportunities for disabled young people to access dance, to perform and to consider dance as a career.
Strength 2 Strength is rooted in building on and maximising the existing activity and strength within our region and our sector. It will not re-invent the wheel, and it desperately needs YOU to get involved to be successful.
Strength 2 Strength is part of the Critical Mass Legacy programme, delivered by FABRIC, and funded by United by 2022, as part of the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games Enhancement Fund from West Midlands Combined Authority.