In Mature Company - CDP Yorkshire Dance 2020

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A creative session for the ‘In Mature Company’ team of dancers and musicians. A playful, nurturing workshop to build strength, resilience and fluidity as a team.To reinstate a sense of spontaneity and freedom and to encourage a sense of self and authentic connection to movement and to one another.

In Mature Company is a three-year project, part of Time to Shine, a six-year programme delivered by Leeds Older People’s Forum addressing the social isolation of older people. The programme will specifically look at the impact of touch and use Dementia Care Mapping as a research tool to better understand the impact of the sessions. The project will be delivered through a range of one-to-one sessions for people within their own rooms, small group sessions and larger group sessions.

https://yorkshiredance.com/project/in-mature-company/

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Talent Hub - CPD artist reflective practice days. Yorkshire Dance - Talent Hub Schools 2019

 

A workshop exploring choreographic approaches to inspire artists working in the community. Particularly focusing on a collaborative approach to gathering material and forming choreography that reflects and absorbs the people in the room, that is responsive and person-centred.

 

Talent Hubs Schools is a two year programme providing high quality, inclusive, creative dance for young people with disabilities or autism across Yorkshire as well as vital CPD training for dance artists in the region.

 

Oracle, Lancaster 2019

Creative Advisor

 

Oracle is an immersive dance theatre show for festivals, small theatres  and unconventional spaces created by George Adams and LPM Dance. Set to a backdrop of fresh club beats it explores the significance of the tarot, ownership of knowledge and the role of chance in our lives.

“A show that embraces the celestial dance of unpredictability”.  

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pUgjK2nEzPE

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Unseen Beings 2018

Tamar and Joe  

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A dance duo based in Hull, who explore dance and physical theatre with visual arts, costume design and sound.

A series of creative exploratory sessions and mentoring during the research and development of Unseen Beings with Jo Ashbridge and Tamar Draper.

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WE Danced Yorkshire Dance 2016 - 2018

 

Artist training days and mentoring.

 

Led a series of training sessions and follow on sessions for the WE Danced team of dance professionals in Sheffield to prepare and develop their practice in the Care Home setting. The workshops were designed to encourage a depth of understanding of working as an artist in the care home environment and of the individuals who lived and worked there. The mentor training developed the dancers' sense of engagement, fluidity of play and engagement with one another and with the people in the care home. Aimed to build and maintain an ongoing creative ‘newness’ to the exploration in the room and allow themselves as dance leaders to be led and guided by the needs and response of the group.

 

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Hansel and Gretel 2017

Artistic Mentor

 

Creative support and mentor for Sally Knight, director of Cscape Dance Company, in the creation of a family production that promenades through The Lost Gardens Of Heligan, Cornwall.

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“an evening of story-telling, dance, music and installation on a journey through the gardens in this evocative, surprising and memorable experience for all the family”.

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Dance Transports - Artist CPD  Bridlington Spa, Yorkshire Dance 2017

Relationship Building Through Dance

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Dance Transports - an exciting regional training programme for Yorkshire which offers teachers, dance artists and those involved in the delivery of dance an opportunity to work alongside professional dance companies and gain valuable insights and training.

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Led a workshop aimed at professional practitioners who are keen to develop their skills and understanding of working with those who are new to dance, explore a variety of creative stimuli that include written text, the spoken word, objects, visual imagery and life experiences that call upon spontaneity, intuitive responses and a sense of ownership. Playful, thoughtful and surprising, the workshop aims to nurture a sense of connectedness, a creative freedom and ability to communicate with a dance language at whatever level of experience and ability.

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Body Of Work Nov. 2017

CoisCéim Dance. Axis Art Centre, Dublin.       

Creative dance workshop facilitator       

               

Two day taster workshops with women from Ballymun Dublin working as a creative tag team with project leader Philippa Donnellan and writer Noelle Brown. The workshop was designed to open up dialogue, thought and creativity around the notion of ‘women’s work’ and their relationship to it; how work can define how we we see ourselves and how others see us, where work begins and ends, how we perceive parts of our bodies in relation to work and how work has embedded history within us.  

http://www.axisballymun.ie/axis-online/new-dance-artist-in-residence-philippa-donnellan

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Turnaround Dance Theatre  - The Fox, The Thief and The Phoenix 2016/17

Mentor and  additional choreography

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Creative support and additional choreography during different stages in the development of the production in collaboration with Ellen, Grace and Lily Turner.

It is an original folk tale of a mischievous thief who, along with a furry fox friend, go on a quest to find the enchanted phoenix. The company tell their tale combing live aerial circus, dance, humorous characters, transforming sets, songs, audience interaction and live story telling.

 

“An adventure filled with excitement and wonder that the whole family can enjoy”

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Physical Postcards, Cornwall 2016

 

Led a two day creative exploration for a team of dance artists in Cornwall to feed into their Physical Postcards project. Responsive, reflective and nurturing sessions to expand possibilities for the work and to encourage investigation and the individual needs of the artist.

Physical Postcards are short dance messages “funny, sad, moving or hilarious” filmed outdoors in chosen environments and posted on line as gifts “to make something personal to treasure and share”.

Initiated by Lois Taylor and developed in collaboration with Sarah Fairhall and Gemma Kempthorne.

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Yorkshire Movement and Dance 2016

Adult Creative Workshops - technique and choreography. Northern School of Contemporary Dance

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Dance Network Sheffield

Creative workshops and technical classes for the local dance community

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