

Movement Matters: Nurturing community, connections, and teaching innovations
Monday 21 July 2025 – Saturday 26 July 2025
Various times


Event Date:
Monday 21 July 2025 – Saturday 26 July 2025
Event Time:
Various times
Country:
Location:
London
Available Online?
Yes
Who’s it for?
This event is open to all dance teachers.
Fee:
Various fees, please click on ‘Book now’ for your preferred currency to view the fees.
Contact:

Whether you’re an experienced teacher or newer to the profession, this event offers a chance to reinvigorate your career, gain practical skills, and leave feeling energised and supported. Join us for an inspiring CPD event focusing on community, connection, and teaching innovations.
Interactive sessions will allow you to explore teaching strategies that prioritise student engagement. These will provide you with creative ideas, new perspectives, and equip you with tools to meet your evolving needs in a rapidly changing world.
The event also highlights the importance of building meaningful relationships – between fellow teachers, with students, with parents/guardians, and within the wider community. There will be time for open dialogue, reflection, and networking.
Join us to shape the future of dance education – one step, one story, and one connection at a time.
Venue
Royal Academy of Dance, London SW11 3JZ and online via Zoom.
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Grade 6 Revision (live stream)
This course is fully booked!
21 and 22 July, 5 – 8pm BST each day.
A practical revision course focusing on the RAD Grade 6 syllabus, with an emphasis on recapping the set exercises and dances. The course will ensure that syllabus details are being accurately understood, with brief references to the examination marking criteria and running of the examination day.

Grade 7 Revision (live stream)
This course is fully booked!
23 and 24 July, 5 – 8pm BST each day.
A practical revision course focusing on the RAD Grade 7 syllabus, with emphasis on recapping the set exercises and dances. The course will ensure that syllabus details are being accurately understood, with brief references to the examination marking criteria and running of the examination day.

Psychological Skills Training for the Dance Studio – Motor Imagery (interactive webinar)
This webinar is fully booked!
23 July, 5 – 7pm BST.
In this interactive and research-informed webinar, you will explore Motor Imagery (MI) as a tool to enhance both physical and mental performance in dancers. This session will introduce key concepts behind MI, how it influences movement execution, and its potential applications in dance training.

Principles and Practices of Adapting Ballet Repertoire for Older Learners (in-person)
Special offer – 20% off! Discount will be automatically applied.
24 July, 9.30am – 12.30pm.
This practical workshop is designed to extend your knowledge of adapting ballet repertoire for adults and older learners in a safe and engaging way.

Enhancing Self-Awareness and Communication Skills (interactive webinar)
This webinar is fully booked!
24 July, 8 – 11am BST.
This session aims to empower you with a deeper understanding of yourself and others through the use of the DISC assessment (a behavioural profiling tool), enabling you to enhance your self-awareness, communication skills, and collaborative effectiveness within your teaching and professional environments. This webinar includes access to an online DISC behavioural assessment and report.

Developing Community in the Dance Class (interactive webinar)
This webinar is fully booked!
24 July, 1.30 – 3pm BST.
This session will focus on the development of community in a dance class. We will look at what we mean by the term “community”, the positive benefits of interactive, community-building methods of teaching, and consider how these methods can be implemented into our own teaching practice.

RAD Syllabus Insights – Grade 3, Intermediate and Advanced 1 (in-person)
25 July, 9am – 5pm.
This course looks at some of the principles of technique, performance and musicality which underpin training for RAD syllabi. You will observe students in Grade 3, Intermediate and/or Advanced 1 classes, followed by discussions of how effective teaching methods inform best practice and on-going development and progression. You can choose which classes to attend.
Further information
Tutors
Accommodation
If you are travelling to London and wish to stay near the RAD, the following hotels may be of interest: Holiday Inn Express – Wandsworth, Premier Inn – Wandsworth and Travelodge – London Battersea.
If you are travelling to London and wish to stay for the week, you may be interested in urbanest, student accommodation in Battersea. If you would like to find out more, please call +44207 042 7890 and mention that you are attending an RAD event.
Fees
Members of the Royal Academy of Dance receive discounts on all CPD activities. You can view the fees for each activity by clicking on ‘Book now’ for your preferred currency.
How to book
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If you have any questions or concerns regarding the above, please contact the CPD Team, cpd@rad.org.uk.
Contact
If you have any questions about this activity, please contact the CPD Team, cpd@rad.org.uk.
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