Youth Dance Matters feedback session

4th March 2025

On Friday it was great to meet and chat with our youth dance colleagues from across the island of Ireland at Youth Dance Matters: A Research Sharing and Feedback Session. Particularly heartening was hearing from young people on how significant being involved in dance is for them.

There were interesting conversations regarding partnerships between dance and sports organisations in Cork, where they are helping address the recognised decline in teenage participation in physical sports.

Tori and Aoife from Queen’s University Belfast are to be applauded for giving youth dance a place at the table and conducting this research with empathy and rigour. The Youth Dance Matters research is particularly important in the present climate when resources and morale are low.