Dance Sport Trust
Conversations
A place for interviews, founder conversations and online events from Dance Sport Trust.
Dance Sport Trust Conversations brings together interviews, discussions and online events exploring the experiences and issues that shape DanceSport today.
Through founder conversations, interviews and invited guests, the series explores where dance, sport, performance, development, safeguarding awareness and wellbeing meet.
These conversations are intended to support understanding, reflection and signposting.
They sit alongside our wider resources and guidance and are not a substitute for professional, medical, psychological, legal, safeguarding or emergency advice.
Topics may include dancer development, parental support, teaching environments, safeguarding awareness, performance culture, long-term participation, wellbeing, identity, transitions and the changing demands placed on dancers today.
Dancers, teachers, parents, coaches, adjudicators and people with relevant experience in wellbeing, safeguarding, youth development, education, sport and performance.
These conversations are intended to support understanding, reflection and signposting. They sit alongside our wider resources and guidance and are not a substitute for professional, medical, psychological, legal, safeguarding or emergency advice.
Future conversations will bring together people from across DanceSport and related fields to explore subjects affecting participation, development and wellbeing.
Conversations Series
EPISODE 01. The Founders
Why We Started the Conversation
In the first episode of Dance Sport Trust Conversations, founding members Nicole Cutler, Andrew Cuerden and Kate Basile speak with host Carmen Rendell about why the Trust was created, the gap it hopes to address and the values shaping its development.
The conversation offers a starting point for anyone who would like to understand what Dance Sport Trust is and how it hopes to support the community over time.
Community Voices
Alongside our own conversations, we want to make space for thoughtful contributions from people across the Ballroom and Latin American dance community.
Community Voices brings together personal perspectives, professional experience and observations from dancers, parents, teachers, coaches, organisers and others whose experience may add something useful to the wider conversation.
Contributions may take different forms over time, including written pieces, recorded conversations, invited discussions and other opportunities to share experience, insight and ideas around the issues that affect participation in DanceSport.
Contributions are shared in the contributor’s own voice and do not necessarily represent the views of Dance Sport Trust. Where appropriate, we may work with contributors on editing, clarity and presentation before publication.
Community Voices is currently developing. Our first contributions will be added here as the programme grows.