Royal Academy of Dance announces honorary awardees at RAD Awards 2025 ceremony
Five individuals have each made an outstanding contribution to the RAD and dance teaching profession.
22 May 2025
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Dance Manifestos
Read more about how every election, we engage politicians for the benefit of the dance sector.
Vibrant and diverse, the UK dance sector, in all its forms, is a UK success story and one which must be celebrated and championed. As well as being a great UK art form, dance has a unique and important role to play in education, health and wellbeing, community cohesion, social mobility and diversity. Dance is at the heart of our UK creative industries.
The Dance Manifesto calls on politicians to:
- Enable every child and young person to have access to dance
- Ensure a thriving dance sector post-Brexit
- Harness the benefits of dance for public health and wellbeing
- Foster equality of opportunity for dance artists and leaders
- Improve dance artists’ working conditions
- Champion UK dance at home and abroad
Our most recent manifesto
This Dance Manifesto, produced pre-pandemic in 2019 - was a long-term vision of how policymakers could help support the UK dance sector. Click to read or share with your local MP. Not sure who your MP is? Click the button below to find out.
