East London Dance has received 150,000, including 78,000 from the Arts Council, to run Hook'd, a 12-week training programme focusing on dance and either graffiti, film or music.
Franck Bordese, general manager at East London Dance, said: "This is the first time dance has been used in an accredited way within the youth offending structure." He said arts-based programmes could help offenders who felt rejected by formal education. "We are not going to reinforce the same rules," he added. "We are taking young people's culture and maximising the educational side of it."
Nine performers have been recruited by the dance company, which aims to work with around 300 young people on crime-reduction schemes run by youth offending teams in three east London boroughs.
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