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Silver Swans®: Barre and Centre CPD Workshop

Monday 17 February 2025

10.30am – 1.30pm GMT

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Event Date:

Monday 17 February 2025

Event Time:

10.30am – 1.30pm GMT

Location:

Available Online?

No

Who’s it for?

This workshop is for active Silver Swans Licensees

Fee:

Silver Swans Licensees £53 | €62 | $68

Contact:

cpd@rad.org.uk

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This workshop will introduce the RAD’s Silver Swans® barre and centre resources. The resources have been created to give Silver Swans Licensees examples of appropriate exercises which can be adapted and made relevant for Licensee’s individual learners.

This workshop will give Licensees an opportunity to work through the exercises in analytical detail for the purpose of preparing them to deliver the exercises to their own Silver Swans, if they so choose. The content can be tailored to fit the needs of each Silver Swans class, based on Licensee’s knowledge of their Silver Swans. This is not a compulsory syllabus.

Aim

The aims of this workshop are:

  • to provide practical experience of teaching the Silver Swans barre and centre resources and other appropriate content, and
  • to explore musical choices for delivering the barre and centre resources, based upon the examples given.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of the workshop, you will:

  • have an increased understanding of appropriate content for Silver Swans learners,
  • be able to incorporate teaching the barre and centre resource content within your Silver Swans classes, and
  • have an enhanced knowledge of how to differentiate content for a range of Silver Swans learners.

Venue

RAD headquarters, London SW11 3JZ

Recommended Preparation

It would be beneficial for participants to have a copy of the Silver Swans Barre and Centre resource for reference.

Tutor

Sarah Platt PGDT (Dance), BPhil (Hons), RAD RTS, FIDTA, RAD Dip; Dance Ex Dip; Anat Dip.

Sarah has been teaching for over 25 years and is Principal of her own dance school. An interest in more diverse teaching started with research into ‘Inclusive Dance Practice’ at postgraduate level, and developed through participation with the RAD Dance for Lifelong Wellbeing (DFLW) project in 2012. Practice-based research into the benefits and considerations when teaching adults and older learners to dance has interested her ever since.

Following the DFLW project, Sarah explored, delivered, and evaluated ballet lessons for older learners, contributing to working parties looking into RAD provision for adults. From these beginnings came the creation of the RAD Silver Swans® ballet programme; formally launched in 2017. She is regularly involved in tutoring, mentoring and contributing to reports and conferences in order to share best practice and spread her passion for the teaching of dance to older learners. Sarah also trains teachers from a range of settings such as primary school teachers and classical ballet specialists. In response to the Covid-19 pandemic, the RAD@home programme saw Sarah deliver virtual Silver Swans sessions, providing a wider audience with an insight into learning ballet. The feedback has been hugely encouraging and confirmed the need for more teachers for this age group.

Who can attend?

This workshop is for active Silver Swans Licensees.

If you have booked onto the Silver Swans Workshop in London on 16 February, you can book onto this workshop. After completion of the Silver Swans Workshop, if you are not eligible for the licence, we will refund you in full for the Barre and Centre workshop.

CPD Hours

3 hours Time-Valued CPD

Fees

Silver Swans Licensees £53 | €62 | $68

How to book

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Contact

If you have any questions about this activity, please email cpd@rad.org.uk.

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