Join IDMN

  • Tia Hassan

  • Train Jumps – RKDC, The Great Train Dance (Image: Brian Slater)

  • Joe Bates – A Readiness by Lila Dance (Image: James Rowbotham)

  • Joanne Peters – Breaking Cycles The Devil Has Quentin s Heart (Image: Irven Lewis)

  • Lise Smith – Butterfly 2009

  • Victoria Igbokwe (Image: Irven Lewis)

  • RosieHeafford – Image:

  • Louise Jardine – The Cholmondeleys Bystander Lea Anderson

  • Anita Srivastava (Image: Vipul Sangoi Raindesign)

  • Silke Arnold 60×60 Dance

  • Claire Summers (Image: Emma Long)

  • Claire Morton – Mapdance (Image: Chris Nash)

  • Gwen Van Spijk – New Art Club (Image: Amy Brammall)

  • Elizabeth Mischler (Image: Stephen Berkeley-White)

  • Andre Portasio – Jealousy – The Print Room (Image: Andre Portasio)

Our members can be either individuals who are self-employed (Independent) or employed by organisations (such as dance agencies), who actively support, produce and or manage the development of dance in their professional work.

Membership benefits:

• Be part of a network of management professionals
• Access to private e-group with up-to-date news, information and jobs.
• Partake in membership meetings – up to 4 per year
• Access discounted rates for IDMN Training courses
• Free IDMN website profile to showcase your work
• Use of the IDMN logo as a stamp of quality assurance

Membership types:

All members should be: working with dance artists, companies, buildings or projects, working on more than one such artist, company, building or project at any given time, and typically with a flexible portfolio of activities, working within (and in some cases outside) the dance profession in the UK.

• INDEPENDENTS: anyone working as a freelance/self-employed manager as outlined above. Artists are welcome to join if they are managing, promoting or advocating other artist’s work and not just their own. Price: £50.00 annually on April 1st.
• CORPORATES: Individuals employed by an organisation to support the development of a portfolio of artists (i.e. Artist Development posts) are eligible to join under our Corporate strand of membership. IDMN Corporate level membership is valid per individual not per organisation. Price: £100.00 annually on April 1st.

Code of Conduct

We ask all members to abide by the following Code of Conduct:

• To advocate for the sector and best practice in management.
• To be an active member of the group, contributing to discussion and activities.
• To maintain and update your personal profile on the website.
• To attend at least 1 meeting per year, sending apologies when unable to attend. Our meetings are generally held in London.
• To respect confidentiality and discretion within the network as appropriate.

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“IDMN provided all important peer support and exchange at a formative stage in my career. It proved an excellent forum (network) from which to connect into the wider sector whilst contributing to my CPD needs as I moved from artist to manager.”

Jamie Watton, CEO South East Dance