Outreach

Engaging Communities

Dance Ihayami’s Community Engagement programme covers our social and community work, and links directly to the audience development objectives for our performance work.  The purpose of our community engagement work is to develop audiences and introduce people to Indian art forms, and making them more accessible to a wider audience.

Our community engagement work uses South Indian art forms to create imaginative, enjoyable and artistically inspiring projects for people of all ages, ethnic origins, backgrounds and abilities.

We create workshops and residencies to suit the specific needs and interests of each group we work with. These take place in a wide range of settings - including schools, youth clubs, day centres, residential homes, hospitals and community centres, and are led by highly skilled and experienced professional artists.

What people say:

“Thank you so much for teaching me Indian Dancing. I would give you 100%. The moves were really cool. It was really cool learning how to do Indian dancing. My favourite move was the special flower in India that grows in the water.” – Oliver, P3 Stockbridge Primary School, Edinburgh

“Great opportunity for children to experience dance from another culture.” – Teacher, Primary School in Shetland

“Attend a workshop and you will gain an appreciation of the precision of the dance form.” Jenny McBain, Highland and Island Arts, November 2009

For more information about our outreach programme, please contact Karen Watts, Dance Development Officer.

Email:karen@danceihayami.org
Call: +44(0)7722071256