Music Education Hubs. We are a partner in seven Music Hubs, formed as part of the National Music Education Plan: Greenwich, Lewisham, Southwark, Lambeth, Tower Hamlets, Barking and Dagenham, and Brighton and Hove. Our roles include Hub governance and strategy, as well as delivery of access, supporting progression and workforce development activities. The partnership of Trinity Laban and Greenwich Dance is funded by Arts Council England as a National Portfolio Organisation. The NPO partnership provides a coherent, sustained and progressive programme in dance for children and young people locally, across London and SE England, and with national reach. The Partnership demonstrates commitment to inclusion and excellence in its work with young people, and has increasingly integrated its programmes to provide a ‘joined up’ offer across formal education, community and youth dance sectors. A recent project saw the launch of Dance Directions, a primary school professional development and outreach programme. While this partnership is due to end in March 2018, we have applied to Arts Council England for direct NPO funding, to include both dance and music activity, which will support the continuance of broad range of partnership with the arts industry. Trinity Laban is a member of AccessHE, the largest regional network in England engaging with over 300 higher education institutions, schools, colleges working in London to widen access to HE. Being part of AccessHE enables us to develop strong, reciprocal collaborative relationships with other HEIs in London and also participate in joint activities with shared goals. At the time of writing these include delivery the National Collaborative Outreach Programme in London, and collaboration on the AccessHE Creative Network which is developing coordinated strategies to support under-represented young people in London to: develop their skills, knowledge base and cultural capital; learn about the range of creative qualifications on offer and employment opportunities within the creative industries; have the confidence to choose a creative pathway; submit strong applications to creative higher education courses. Our institutional partnership with the leading integrated dance company, Candoco, promotes inclusive practice in vocational training, developing progression routes for disabled dancers into pre-vocational and vocational training. The work programme includes sharing of advice and expertise on curriculum developments and audition process...
Music Education Hubs. We are a partner in seven Music Hubs, formed as part of the National Music Education Plan: Greenwich, Lewisham, Southwark, Lambeth, Tower Hamlets, Barking and Dagenham, and Brighton and Hove. Our roles include Hub governance and strategy, as well as delivery of access, supporting progression and workforce development activities. The partnership of Trinity Laban and Greenwich Dance is funded by Arts Council England as a National Portfolio Organisation. The NPO partnership provides a coherent, sustained and progressive programme in dance for children and young people locally, across London and SE England, and with national reach. The Partnership demonstrates commitment to inclusion and excellence in its work with young people, and has increasingly integrated its programmes to provide a ‘joined up’ offer across formal education, community and youth dance sectors. Our institutional partnership with the leading integrated dance company, Candoco, promotes inclusive practice in vocational training, developing progression routes for disabled dancers into pre-vocational and vocational training. The work programme includes sharing of advice and expertise on curriculum developments and audition processes; development of structured CPD provision; regular placements with Candoco for Trinity Laban students; and collaboration on youth projects and company and student performance projects. This partnership has been supplemented by further partnership working with Greenwich Dance and Magpie Dance to facilitate progression routes for young people with physical and learning disabilities. Trinity Laban is the lead organisation for this collaborative professional development programme, funded by the Mayor of London’s Schools Excellence Fund, which will strengthen subject knowledge amongst specialist secondary school music teachers, thus improving pupil attainment and progression. Delivery is via a new ‘World Class Arts and Learning’ partnership including Trinity Laban, Barbican, Guildhall School of Music and Drama, University of Greenwich and London Music Hubs. Teacher development is an increasingly significant part of our WP strategy to tackle inequalities of provision in performing arts provision across the state maintained sector, and between state and independent schools. Other partners in Dance include Royal Academy of Dance (focusing on work with boys), Xxxxxx’x Xxxxx, Youth Dance England, and Loop Dance company (working across Kent).
