Oskar's Question on UK Dance Culture
with PETER NASH
About this episode
Peter Nash has been a competitor, coach, adjudicator, examiner and academy builder, and is now Operations Director of the British DanceSport Association. With Marius he looks at what really happens inside the machinery of DanceSport: judging systems, fairness, federation politics, and what it would take to unify a divided ballroom world.
In part 2: starting dance at seven, fifty years of learning, safeguarding and yellow cards, judge bans and the London Open, taking British dancing to new corners of the world, and what ultimate inclusion really means beyond a mission statement.
Chapters
- PART 1
- 00:00Intro
- 02:17Bringing DanceSport to the Commonwealth
- 04:44Why Peter Founded the BDSA
- 07:31Life After Competing and Losing Your Identity
- 10:33Rethinking How We Judge Dance
- 13:35Bridging Hobby and Competitive Dancing
- 19:33How Dance Changes Lives and the Oti Story
- 26:07Juveniles, Injury Risk and Ice Skating Structure
- 32:44The Unified World Championship Idea
- 40:02Splitting Judge Power and Yellow Cards
- 51:13Lessons from Football and Boxing
- 57:08Federation Politics and the BDC
- 1:04:20Three Competition Circuits in the UK
- PART 2
- 00:00Fifty Years of Dance From Age Seven
- 03:46Safeguarding, Fairness and the BDSA
- 07:52Judge Bans and the London Open
- 15:14Rapid Fire Questions With Peter
- 22:35World Atlas: Japan and MoroccoOn the map
- 29:20How Peter Broke the Routine
- 35:56Oskar's Question on UK Dance CultureThe Chain
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Transcript
The full conversation, 672 passages
Hello and welcome to break the routine. We have a very very special guest today. He's uh over 50 years in the dance industry. first as competitor, then as a judge, examiner, organizer, academy builder and one of the people working inside this machinery of danceport itself from an accidental first class at age seven to competitive chapter like the Great Britain and New Zealand uh to build an academy with FA and pushing questions of fairness, safeguarding and inclusion. Peter's story is really about what happens when dance becomes bigger than medals. Mr. Peter Nash, a real pleasure to have you here.
Well, thank you. Thank you for having me. It's incredible to have you. Thank you. Yeah, likewise.
Was a a while that we were speaking and and trying to to uh get the best out of out of our industry. No, through
100% through different ways.
Well, I think I think as you know, it's not about any one person. And it's about everyone working together. We can all benefit from that culture. Of course, we have to have the elite and there'll always be places, but I think it's just really important that we all work together and just make sure that the that that the the industry is kept at the most high standards.
You are someone who um I can see that has a view for the bigger picture. How do you do that? U well I I think we just look at what was good from the past and the traditions especially being English. What do you do? You looked to the past all the time. The empire, the dance empire, can't say empire, the Commonwealth, all these wonderful things. But also then start looking where we got it wrong. Where could we have done more? Where where is it? You know, everyone's talking about schools. We're we you know, everyone wants to do that. That's happening. We're talking about helping for example promoters. We are actively helping promoters instead of promoters possibly having to do the work for whichever federation association body dance.
Very interesting. We will we will come back to that. Before that I you you you drove here um to a direction of u that I like very much and being involved with OT in that in the Commonwealth
was the Commonwealth day. We were in Westminster Abbey. It was a brilliant ceremony.
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