Dance Associate Ltd

The Dance Associate is a Northern Ireland’s, Newry-based Performing and Creative Arts company and dance education organisation committed to artistic excellence and innovation, presenting a unique educational and recreational opportunities encompassing masterclasses of the past and cutting-edge works. The Dance Associate is committed to providing arts education and accessible dance training through its Dance Associate Academy of Dance and Community Engagement programmes.
The Dance Associate is committed to honouring, nurturing, and advancing dance education through the lens of diversity, inclusion, and equity in all aspects of its programming, services, and organisation. 
Dance as an art form provides expression, celebration, exploration, and transformation for all people. The inclusion and equitable treatment of all members of the community are core values of the Dance Associate and central to its mission. In achieving core values of equity and inclusion, the Dance Associate is committed to diversity in every aspect of its programming and services. Diversity in this context refers to groups, communities, and individuals identified by dance genre or form, race, ethnicity, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, socio-economic status, religion, age, or disability status. Inclusion means a commitment to making all members of the community feel welcome and comfortable at the Dance Associate. Equity is ensuring justice, impartiality, and fairness in procedures, processes, and opportunities. Dance Associate work with artists, venues and companies to enable the production of high-quality performance, engagement of communities by local, regional, national and international performers and outreach across Northern Ireland in collaboration with artists and companies from the Republic of Ireland.
PURPOSE
To support and develop a vibrant performing and creative arts ecology in Northern Ireland which will encourage people of Northern Ireland of all ages to participate in and appreciate performing arts and introduce people to culture with the objective of improving their conditions of life and well-being and in particular:-
(a) to promote, maintain and improve performing arts education particularly through the production of workshops, performances and the encouragement of the arts including contemporary dance, drama, mime, singing and music;
(b) to foster, promote and advance preparation and establishment of projects and events in partnership with similar artistic organisations;
(c) to promote education and training in performing and creative arts and related subjects particularly for children, young people, elderly people, refugees and others who, for whatever reason, may be considered excluded from society;
(d) to advance performing and creative arts through the provision of training, career advice, coaching and continuing professional development for performing and creative arts practitioners and organisations upon terms appropriate to their means and in such other ways as the directors shall in their absolute discretion determine; and more
PUBLIC BENEFITS
Dance Associate direct benefits flowing from our purposes include:
Improve social welfare through performing and creative arts for recreation and other leisure activities with the object of improving the conditions of life for the said inhabitants.
To give equality of opportunity to those who have otherwise been marginalised from the mainstream arts provision.
Improve knowledge of the cultural and educational value of arts in all their aspects of the public through the management of production of the events for public performance and the showcasing of performing and creative arts.