Animated Magazine Autumn/Winter 2025/26

Animated, the community dance magazine, is published by People Dancing. Written by dance artists and dance/arts professionals, it reflects community dance culture in the UK and beyond. Animated encourages debate, dialogue and reflection on current issues and community dance practice.

Autumn 2025 edition has a focus on dance, health & wellbeing. 

With new writing, diverse perspectives and expert opinions, the current edition of Animated is essential reading for dancers, teaching artists and community. A collection of eight wonderfully wide-ranging articles from academics to artists on the ground are gathered together here to offer a rapid overview of this field - as useful for those who already specialise as for those simply keen to keep up with this hottest of topics in dance and the arts.

Elsewhere, the magazine is no less full of vitality as we celebrate, as ever, the variety and impact of community dance practice around the UK and beyond. Your upcoming delights include a delve into the Cornish landscape, a national network for dance in museums and heritage settings, literally putting participatory dance practice on wheels for rollerblading project to welcome refugees and asylum seekers plus an important provocation to truly test the strength of our community dance conviction that every body is truly welcome in dance.

Artists and Companies who contributed to this edition include: Katie Green, Gillie Kleiman, Kyra Norman, Natalie Haslam, Fergus Early, Jennifer Irons, Ludus Dance, Amici Dance, Dr Rebecca Gordon-Nesbitt, Victoria and Dr Sue Smith. Full content list available in image selection.