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I credit dance with the inimitable accolade of literally saving my life. Re-discovering dance in my teenage years I found it to be a language that offers a route into the complexity of our inner lives, connecting us with those we dance with and the places we are in.

After igniting this passion I then set out to share it with as many people from as many areas of society as I could find!

I am committed to celebrating innate dance and movement expression. I am a passionate advocate for the importance of movement throughout life. The connection between daily physical activity and emotional wellbeing, a greater ability to learn and concentrate, stronger social networks, skills such as teamwork and per support and greater physical health is now is widely evidenced and documented.

I have a strong commitment to supporting a safe creative environment within which we are all able to work to our very best. I have studied hard to improve both my session planning and communication skills in order to work kindly, fairly and inclusively.

I have a great sense of humour and fun whilst maintaining a commitment to professional artistic standards. A highly proactive and enthusiastic member of the arts community I have earned a reputation for high quality, varied and unique projects. I mentor young dancers as I have been, and still am supported by my own seniors, and arts organisations around me.

Mansfield Associate Artist

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Creative Genre

Dance, theatre, performance, creative expression, yoga, playfulness, working outdoors

Work Undertaken

I have a huge body of experience working with Blue Eyed Soul Dance company
Trestle Theatre
Handmade Theatre and Bamboozle Theatre Company. I have also developed worked under the name Strandlooper- most notably the Silver Swimmers- a butoh influenced dance piece developed for UK festivals which went on to tour Canada
America and Australia. In terms of facilitation I have experience in many settings such as community centres
theatres
schools
Early Years settings
residential care homes and dementia care homes. I was the lead artist with Talent 25 (a longitudinal research project managed by DMU and funded by ACE) for 3 years. I am currently an associate artist with Mansfield Cultural Services.

Work in Education

I have worked with every age group in mainstream and special schools. My approach is inclusive
thoughtful
fun and relevant. I have worked with projects that focus on dance as its core as well as with many creative curricular projects. I was an artist with Artis for 4 years
my name was Splatter. I am currently managing and delivering a 12 month Arts Council Funded project at Yeoman Park Academy. It involves a day of duets every week with the learners described as hardest to reach over an entire academic year. It includes CPD for their staff.

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