Intensive Projects
The Intensive Project consists of a five-week intervention modeled on professional contemporary dance training for young people aged 14-18 years who are disengaged or excluded from mainstream education, at risk of offending and/or suffering with poor mental health. The project invites 20 young people (who have never met and come from a range of referral partners) to work towards a community-facing performance in a professional theatre and the completion of a Bronze Arts Award.
To achieve transformative outcomes, it is vital to immerse the young people in an intensive full-time process that is highly disciplined and unrelentingly ambitious in the quality of its choreography and dance teaching. No shortcuts, no hiding places, no mediocrity. DUY develops and adapts the core teaching methodology that encapsulates 42 pro-active strategies so that it is a fit for each client group and maximises the potential of a project to succeed.
Historically, we have primarily delivered intensive projects across Yorkshire but, we have also worked further afield - including Wrexham, Aberdeen and The Netherlands!
Our projected projects for 2023/2024 will take place in Leeds (City Centre) and Bradford (Holme Wood). For further details and/or to make a referral please email duncan@duy.org.uk
“When I started out my journey with DUY, I was not having the best time in my life. I gained a lot of strength through dance and developed skills to help control my emotions. I still wonder where I would have ended up without DUY and dance - I think it would have been a much darker situation”
Project Participant
“It can change your life by doing something different. This project’s changed my life. I dont think I’ll end up getting into trouble with the police now, I don’t want to do that anymore.”
Project Participant
