icandance
Nominee Profile
Location: Camden
icandance is a London-based creative and therapeutic community empowering disabled children and young people through dance and performance, founded in 2006 by Dance Movement Psychotherapist Juliet Diener and registered as a charity in 2010.
Working with children and young people aged 4–25 with disabilities, icandance combines Dance Movement Psychotherapy (DMP), creative dance and education to support emotional wellbeing, communication, confidence and self-expression. Sessions are highly personalised and co-created with dancers themselves, enabling each child to participate in ways that feel meaningful and accessible to them. For many non-verbal dancers, movement becomes a powerful form of communication and connection.
icandance reaches over 300 children and young people each week across London and delivered 780 dance sessions, 312 hours of individual DMP and 27 performances and events during 2024–25 alone. Alongside weekly sessions, the organisation provides outreach in SEND schools, youth leadership programmes, paid employment opportunities, family support, professional training and public performances that challenge perceptions of disability within society and the arts.
The organisation’s Youth Dance Company performs across London and has collaborated with organisations including English National Ballet, BalletBoyz, the Royal Academy of Dance, ISTD and Tring Park School for the Performing Arts. icandance was selected as the Mayor of Camden’s Charity of Choice 2025/26 and won the Disability Category at the National Charity Awards 2025.
At its heart, icandance is a community built on belonging, creativity and inclusion. Its vision is a society enriched by disabled children and young people who are equally valued for their abilities, creativity and contribution.
Working with children and young people aged 4–25 with disabilities, icandance combines Dance Movement Psychotherapy (DMP), creative dance and education to support emotional wellbeing, communication, confidence and self-expression. Sessions are highly personalised and co-created with dancers themselves, enabling each child to participate in ways that feel meaningful and accessible to them. For many non-verbal dancers, movement becomes a powerful form of communication and connection.
icandance reaches over 300 children and young people each week across London and delivered 780 dance sessions, 312 hours of individual DMP and 27 performances and events during 2024–25 alone. Alongside weekly sessions, the organisation provides outreach in SEND schools, youth leadership programmes, paid employment opportunities, family support, professional training and public performances that challenge perceptions of disability within society and the arts.
The organisation’s Youth Dance Company performs across London and has collaborated with organisations including English National Ballet, BalletBoyz, the Royal Academy of Dance, ISTD and Tring Park School for the Performing Arts. icandance was selected as the Mayor of Camden’s Charity of Choice 2025/26 and won the Disability Category at the National Charity Awards 2025.
At its heart, icandance is a community built on belonging, creativity and inclusion. Its vision is a society enriched by disabled children and young people who are equally valued for their abilities, creativity and contribution.