Raising Awareness of Eating Disorders This week (25th Feb to 3rd March) is Eating Disorders Awareness Week in the UK. The campaign aims to ‘break the barriers’ and to ‘put the real stories of eating disorders in the spotlight, raise funds, and change lives’. This Eating Disorders Awareness Week helps to put the stories of
Let’s talk about young people’s mental health. In 2017 we supported Hawk Dance Theatre with space and time to help them research and develop a new performance work which was initially created with men’s mental health in mind. Subsequent HandsON test shows demonstrated its wider appeal, speaking on behalf of and resonating with a variety
Music, movement and crawling are important in your baby and toddler’s early development. Babies love to synchronise movement to music, so why not have some fun with a gentle bounce to the beat. Babies need lots of opportunity to move freely and develop skills like reaching, rolling, sitting up and crawling before they start to
What? On a murky, grey day in Lancaster our bi-weekly professionals class, which is usually peer led, had a little bit of sunshine added to it last week when it was led, on Skype, by Phinda-Mzala in Gauteng in South Africa. Who? Phinda-Mzala use their artistic practice to spread health messages in disadvantaged areas of
It’s a fact – dancing is good for your baby. According to Live Science, new studies show that babies move in time to music from five months old. Dancing comes naturally to infants and the research, carried out with 120 infants between five months and two years old, demonstrates that babies respond to rhythm and
Do you have great organisational and administrative skills? Are you outcome focused, proactive and get things done? Yes? Then Ludus Dance needs you! You will be part of a small but passionate team that works hard to inspire and connect with all sections of the community, developing and delivering a range of high quality dance
Edenamiuki Aiguobasinmwin kicks off Ludus Dance’s first FORGE artist commission. About The FORGE… Ludus Dance recently launched The FORGE, a brand new initiative responding to a need to nurture diverse artistic voices within cultural spaces and programmes across the North West, and particularly Lancashire. Last year, the organisation put out a call for applications for
We are seeking a new Marketing Officer to complement a small but passionate team. The ideal applicant will have substantial marketing experience, preferably within an arts or charitable context. We are looking for someone creative, outcome focused, personable, proactive, a strategic thinker with strong digital and design skills. The Marketing Officer plays an important role