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7:30 AM April 9, 2021
Brendan Keaney, chief executive of DanceEast, says that the grant for digital technology will transform their education programme
- Credit: DanceEast
DanceEast has been awarded a major grant to help develop new digital teaching resources which will then boost the company’s education outreach work.
The dance facility, based on Ipswich Waterfront, has received £334,000 from Paul Hamlyn Foundation’s Arts-Based Learning Fund to support the development of an innovative digital teaching model – using technology to bring exciting learning concepts to life through dance.
Brendan Keaney, DanceEast’s chief executive and artistic director, said that it was one of their ambitions to transform dance teaching within primary schools across the region.
Published:
7:30 AM April 9, 2021
Brendan Keaney, chief executive of DanceEast, says that the grant for digital technology will transform their education programme
- Credit: DanceEast
DanceEast has been awarded a major grant to help develop new digital teaching resources which will then boost the company’s education outreach work.
The dance facility, based on Ipswich Waterfront, has received £334,000 from Paul Hamlyn Foundation’s Arts-Based Learning Fund to support the development of an innovative digital teaching model – using technology to bring exciting learning concepts to life through dance.
Brendan Keaney, DanceEast’s chief executive and artistic director, said that it was one of their ambitions to transform dance teaching within primary schools across the region.
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Published:
1:07 PM April 1, 2021
Updated:
1:13 PM April 1, 2021
More than 50 organisations have bandied together to offer arts jobs for under 25s. Pictured: A DanceEast dance class.
- Credit: Archant
A group of arts and cultural organisations across East Anglia are offering nearly 150 jobs for young people across the region as part of a new government scheme.
More than 50 organisations have come together to form Kickstart East Anglia and work with the DWP to provide jobs for young people under 25 who are at risk of long-term unemployment, as part of the government s Kickstart scheme.
The group has created 42 placements with 14 different employers in Norfolk and 52 placements with 18 employers in Suffolk as well as more roles in Cambridgeshire. The roles will be available at some point from now until December 2021.
Published:
5:25 PM December 14, 2020
Solstice is a digital performance created by choreographer Kwesi Johnson as part of DanceEast s desire to spread some Christmas cheer to local people
- Credit: Chris Nash
Ipswich s DanceEast is to stage two digital performances for the festive season - after being determined to keep entertainment going during the Covid-19 crisis.
The pandemic has proved a huge stumbling block in commissioning new dance theatre.
Solstice is an interactive dance performance which people can access via a window display outside the DanceHouse on Ipswich Waterfront
- Credit: Chris Nash
However, DanceEast s chief executive and artistic director, Brendan Keaney, has organised two alternatives with the help of its new digital suite, for which it recently received a £60,000 grant.