The Dance Training and Accreditation Partnership will be launching The Dance Register at Move It on 8 – 10 March 2013. The Dance Register is the comprehensive UK register of dance teachers, leaders and artists. It's seen as one of the most important developments for teachers in recent times.
The Dance Register will provide a nationally recognised "one-stop shop" website for people looking for a suitably experienced and/or qualified dance teacher, leader or artist. It will also allow dance professionals to reach the widest possible range of potential employers and participants and to publicise key information about their work through a dedicated online profile.
The Dance Training and Accreditation Partnership (DTAP) is a major, dance industry-led initiative that brings together a consortium of leading national dance development organisations committed to building capacity and removing barriers to participation in dance by people of all ages and abilities. Current initiatives of DTAP in addition to The Dance Register include building capacity for and further developing the new Diploma in Dance Teaching and Learning (Children and Young People), further developing and disseminating the new National Occupational Standards in Dance Leadership to use them as the foundation for a continuing professional development (CPD) framework for dance leadership and rolling out a full communications plan to share knowledge, raise awareness and ensure that the work DTAP is undertaking is truly national and representative of the whole dance leadership workforce.
DTAP was instigated by Trinity Laban in 2006 as a collective response to an increasing concern about the lack of recognised professional standards and qualifications at an appropriate level that equip dance professionals and artists for the nature and range of work that they are undertaking with children and young people. This reflected the shared belief that the quality of dance provision for young people rests on the quality of the dance artists and practitioners delivering it