Broken Chords 2008
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TC has a longstanding career as a performer, teacher, choreographer and mentor within dance and the performing arts. She left Middlesex Polytechnic in 1986 with a first class BAPA honours degree (Dance Major) and has continued for the last 35 years to work in and with a huge variety of companies and creative individuals from all areas of the dance and the physical theatre sector; and in and from many parts of the world.
On leaving her formal training she was soon to join Ludus Dance Company in Lancaster which proved to be yet another training ground, embedding in a professionalism and an artistic ethos. After her 8 years with Ludus Dance Company TC went on to dance, tour, teach, devise and choreograph with companies such as V-Tol Dance Company, Vincent Dance Theatre, The David Glass New Mime Ensemble, Northern Broadsides, Cscape Dance Company, Wendy Houstoun, The Gary Clarke Company, M6 Theatre and many more.
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TC explores, excites and positively encourages the celebration of difference, promoting a sense of self and ownership within the artistic process, engages an ensemble methodology and seeks to make visible that which is hidden. She takes great strength and inspiration from working with artists from all disciplines and with people from all walks of life. She is emphatic in her commitment to working with professionals and non professionals alike, believing that all these artistic endeavours support, connect, influence and inform one another.
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Her work emerges from a multi-layered process that seeks to engage authenticity and meaning and a sense of interconnectedness. She explores the impulse to move with written and spoken word, live music, visual art, stories, playful invention, and improvisation.
It is her intuitive curiosity and embodied approach that has led her to work and connect with like minded artists from all disciplines; recently working with intergenerational groups, the elderly and those with dementia. Following an extended period of research and development TC directed a sensory interactive dance theatre piece that was performed within the care home setting.
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Her story and her training is on-going; a continuous and ever expanding sense of what it is to be a creative; an artist living and working through the changing landscape of decades, through personal and professional growth.
TC: “Dancing in its many forms and mercurial guises has accompanied me through all of life’s adventures, however joyous and difficult they have been. Dancing feels different than it was ten, twenty, thirty, forty years ago; different than it was last year and even last week. I find myself looking back and forward as if through the same kaleidoscopic lens tessellating the many versions of me I’ve accumulated on the way.
It’s a rich playground, a dynamic melting pot that holds all of my roles, my ages, all of my thinkings and imaginings. It has been friend and foe. It is an ever evolving language with a need to find expression, to find form, to wrangle and reinvent itself and to be found anew. It has given me a means of connection to the world around me, a language in which to be with others and a chance to find new ways of being together. It is method and mode that can affirm, question and move us. It accelerates my learning and challenges what I know.”