{"id":232931,"date":"2025-07-02T20:54:14","date_gmt":"2025-07-02T20:54:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/232931\/"},"modified":"2025-07-02T20:54:14","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T20:54:14","slug":"dance-in-wales-is-elitist-and-not-diverse-says-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/232931\/","title":{"rendered":"Dance in Wales is elitist and not diverse, says report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Dance in Wales is &#8220;elitist, tokenistic and non-diverse&#8221; and lacks investment and recognition, a new report has said.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The review, led by consultant and researcher <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rwcmd.ac.uk\/staff\/karen-pimbley\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Karen Pimbley, external<\/a>, highlighted funding gaps and called for better planning, more community hubs and stronger links with schools to improve the situation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Some contributors said they feared folk dancing and clogging could disappear without more support. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In response, the <a href=\"https:\/\/arts.wales\/\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Arts Council of Wales, external<\/a> has launched an action plan with \u00a3350,000 for development in 2025-26, including appointing dance experts, expanding training, improving access and promoting Welsh language and culture.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dance in Wales is &#8220;elitist, tokenistic and non-diverse&#8221; and lacks investment and recognition, a new report has said.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":232932,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5010],"tags":[748,4884,16,15,1764],"class_list":{"0":"post-232931","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wales","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-great-britain","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-wales"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114785633265924124","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=232931"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232931\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/232932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}