Calling all final year dance students, places available on the Dance UK student rep scheme
Date Tue 17 January 2012
Filed under: Events and Other Interesting Stuff, Dancers, DanceUK News
Calling all final year dance students! Are you the sort of person that gets fired up about dance issues? Are you always speaking up for your peers? The one that people listen to? If so then you would enjoy being a Dance UK Student rep!
About the role
'Being a Dance UK rep allows me to work with other enthusiastic people in developing and expanding the dance industry, whilst also advocating and promoting current dance initiatives and putting my passion for dance to good use. I am looking forward to creating a strong link between my University and Dance UK and aim to continue to give dance students a voice.' Amelia Russell, student rep for Roehampton University.
This role will take up maximum one hour per week. The Dance UK student reps’s work ‘on the ground’ in their education establishment. Their mission is to spread the Dance UK message and ensure that every fellow student in their place of study knows about Dance UK’s work, its dance heath resources, events and news. To do this student reps use word of mouth, social networking, groups, college publications, and notice boards.
Dance UK reps also feed back to us on any dance related issue that peers and tutors would like us to advise on, lobby for or provide information on. From time to time we ask reps to attend local dance events and report back, for example the student rep for Winchester recently attended Dance Proms and wrote a review which is published on the Dance UK website.
Read about our current student reps here.
Who we are looking for
The best Dance UK student reps use their initiative and come up with their own ways of spreading the Dance UK message as well as carrying out specific tasks. They have been the kind of people that are always talking to others about dance issues including all the year groups, tutors and even their local MPs. To enjoy this role a Dance UK student rep will have the following interests and qualities:
- Pro-active interest in campaigning for dance related issues.
- Confident and clear communicator.
- Good grasp of written and spoken English.
- Ability to write accurate and lively copy that people want to read.
- Digitally aware: someone who has a working knowledge of how to use social networking sites (facebook/ myspace/ twitter/ YouTube) the internet and email.
- Proficiency with basic computer skills (emailing, surfing the net, adding attachments, creating links, using social networking sites).
- Reliable and willing to commit to this role for the duration of their studies.
Benefits for the student
In this role you will encounter situations and use skills that will stand you in good stead to work in a communications role in the future. Ex DUK rep for Trinity Laban rep Anna Bregstrom went on to work for Candoco Dance Company following graduation and she feel that she owes some of the success to the work she did with Dance UK.
This is a voluntary position however, you will be rewarded with:
- Free membership to Dance UK worth £17.50 which includes four copies of Dance UK news per year (all other membership benefits are outlined in the accompanying literature and on our website www.danceuk.org).
- Discounted tickets to shows when offers are available to us
- Knowledge of latest industry opportunities, events and information
- The opportunity to put on this role on his/hers CV and network with people in the industry
Where we have places available
We are currently looking for reps at a range of institutions, please see the website here for a list of current places that have reps already. We are particularly interested to hear form students/ tutors in the following areas:
- Scotland
- Liverpool
- Cornwall
- Brighton
- Leeds
- Manchester
- Birmingham
- Hull
- Norwich
- Bristol
- Kent
- Plymouth
- Wales
- Ireland
- Newcastle
For more information please email me: Alexis@danceuk.org
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