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✨ Dance Professionals: Your Wellbeing Matters ✨

If you’re a dancer, choreographer, or dance teacher living with injury, struggling to find time for your wellbeing, managing anxiety, or feeling burnt out — you’re not alone. In fact, you’re part of the majority.
📉 80% of dance professionals experience injury each year
💬 Half report moderate–severe depression or anxiety
💸 Nearly 4 in 5 have seriously considered leaving the sector due to financial and wellbeing pressures

It doesn’t have to be this way — and we’re here to help break the cycle.

Dance Professionals Fund, One Dance UK, and the National Institute of Dance Medicine and Science (NIDMS) have joined forces with one mission: to put your wellbeing first.

For the first time ever, we’re offering 60 dance professionals completely FREE health and wellbeing support.

At the end of 2024, One Dance UK and NIDMS launched affordable Wellbeing Packages (£25 per year), but we know financial pressures are real — so we’re removing the barriers.

🎁 Successful applicants will receive:
✔️ Free One Dance UK membership (worth £35)
PLUS your choice of one of two fully funded support packages:

Option 1: Dance-Specific Screening (worth £76–£276)

A personalised physical assessment with a dance medicine expert to help you:
• Improve training and performance
• Understand strengths & areas for growth
• Learn tailored injury-prevention strategies
• Access expert training advice
• Avoid long-term injuries
📍 Screening centres in London and Wolverhampton

Option 2: Wellbeing Package (worth £25)

24/7/365 access to:
• Private GP consultations & prescriptions
• Telephone counselling
• Legal advice
• Debt & welfare support
• Crisis intervention
…all confidential, with no waiting lists.

⏳ Apply now — it only takes 5 minutes!
Simply follow the link at the bottom of this page and answer a few eligibility questions about your dance background, income, and preferred support package.

If you’d prefer to complete the process another way, get in touch and we’ll support you.

🗓️ Deadline: 16 November 2025
📩 You’ll hear back by 1 December 2025

Your health matters. Your career matters. And we’re here to help you protect both. 💛

All dancers have the right to a safe dance environment that is respectful, equitable and free from abuse. https://bmjopensem.bmj.com/content/10/2/e001811.full

New resource alert❗

Public Health England and The Royal Osteoperosis Society have recently released a new paper on Muscle and Bone Strengthening Activities for Children and Young People (5 to 18 years) -A rapid evidence review. 📖

Interested❓ You can find the full article here -

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Performance Optimisation Package (POP) - One Dance UK We are now able to take bookings as usual for screening at our London centre, Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance. Please note that screening availability and booking will respond accordingly as local lock-down restrictions continue to change. Be sure to keep your eyes peeled for regular....

** Mental Wellbeing in Dance Survey **

We hope that the study will lead to changes in provisions in mental health support, as well as a greater awareness of the impact of the dance environment on wellbeing in dancers.

Please contribute to this research here: https://tiny.cc/dancementalhealth

NIDMS National Institute of Dance Medicine and Science University of Chichester Minding the Gap

What are the important qualities for jumping? The purpose of this study is to improve our understanding and communication between dance science and dance practice. You are invited to participate in this study on the perception of jumping qualities because you are a dance teacher who is over 18 years of age. Objective: To explore the qualities a...

Great to see these contributions from our colleagues at Trinity Laban Dance Science!

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Have you heard about how our Performance Optimisation Packages could benefit you? 🤔💪 🙌

POP is a One Dance UK membership add-on, enabling access to a comprehensive package that has been designed to complement the existing specialist healthcare available at National Institute of Dance Medicine and Science (NIDMS) NHS clinics. POP serves as an invaluable tool for dance artists working independently or without comprehensive in-house health provision.

For more information, visit our website here: https://www.onedanceuk.org/programme/healthier-dancer-programme/performance-optimisation-package-pop/

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