Collaborations
I have immensely enjoyed working with the following people and I’m always looking for new and exciting collaborations/partnerships.
Choreographers/Directors/Dance Practitioners
LPM Dance
LPM Dance is an artists led organisation based in Lancashire. The company was founded by George Adams and Helen Gould through a joint ambition to create new dance initiatives for diverse audiences in a wide variety of settings. Helen and George strive to place the art, the artist and the audience at the heart of their work. Both enjoy being responsive to new opportunities, enabling them to enrich and further the understanding of their work in a broad range of contexts
Helen Gould – LPM Dance
Helen has worked with me for over a decade as a translator, collaborator, and project manager. She has enjoyed supporting the ambitious and widely varied artistic projects I have initiated. For the last 10 years, Helen has co-directed LPM Dance with George Adams. The company has collaborated with me on a number of its high-profile projects including IF Fest and Let’s Move. George has worked with me as a choreographic mentor for the Migratory piece in 2018.
George Adams – LPM Dance
George is a dance artist, choreographer, facilitator, pilates and yoga teacher.George was born in Glasgow and went on to study at the Rambert School of Ballet and Contemporary Dance.After graduating he went on to work as a performer and choreographer for a number of dance companies and choreographers both internationally and in the UK including: Nigel Charnock and dancers, Ludus Dance, Motionhouse, National Dance Company of Wales and Flexer and Sandiland to name but a few.
Sense
For over 60 years, Sense has developed an unrivalled depth of knowledge, skill and expertise to help people learn to communicate and express themselves – be it through speech or sign, touch or movement, gesture or sound, art or dance.Since then, I have been working with Sense Touchbase Pears in Birmingham on a number of projects
Leonard Cheshire
We delivered a number of sessions at Leonard Cheshire in Garstang thanks to Samantha Blackburn from No Label Arts CIC. During these sessions, we taught two groups of residents how to choreograph for the first time using the Simpson Board. Please check out the video below, to see this workshop in action.
Jus Kidz
Jus Kidz offers inclusive clubs for children and young people with disabilities and their siblings from the Knowsley area. They are available when they need them most, evenings and weekends. The clubs offer a safe environment for indoor and outdoor play and a range of different activities.
Merseyside Dance Initiative
Merseyside Dance Initiative is one of the UK’s leading strategic dance agencies, whose mission is “inspiring people through dance”. From there Liverpool base they work with partners to create a healthy and vibrant infrastructure for dance.
Plymouth University
PANDA – the performing arts network, was created in 2004. They are a membership organisation to proactively support venues, companies and individuals in the performing arts sector across the North. They do this by facilitating networks, providing training and consultancy, offering professional advice and guidance, and creating connections.
Beaumont College
Beaumont College is an exciting place to live and learn. Founded in Lancaster in 1977 they offer both residential and day programmes. These are offered to Learners aged between 18 and 25 with a broad range of physical and learning disabilities. Their aim is to empower learners to take responsibility for their own lives.
People Dancing
I’m a member of People Dancing. The professional organisation for anyone involved in creating opportunities for people to experience and participate in dance.
Springfield School
Springfield school was for children and young children with physical and learning disabilities.
DaDa Fest
DaDaFest is an innovative disability arts organisation based in Liverpool. It delivers the Festival and other arts events to promote high quality disability & deaf arts from unique cultural perspectives. It also produces opportunities for disabled and d/Deaf people to access the arts, including training and a young people’s programme.
Laura Lima
Laura Lima is an artist, winner of the Bonnefanten Award 2014, 50,000 Euros and solo exhibition at Bonnefanten Museum, 2014. A piece of her work, Sombra de Cinema, has been described as “not film making, it is perhaps reality.
Theatre Clywd
Clwyd Theatr Cymru is Wales’ major drama producing operation, originally built as a Regional Arts Centre. It is the home of a highly acclaimed producing company. It also presents much of its work on tour throughout Wales and the rest of the UK. The company produces mainly in English, but also in Welsh. There is a fully integrated Theatre for Young People department. It uses the same performers, technicians and creative staff to achieve the same high production values as the mainstream product. The theatre also hosts a variety of touring drama, dance, music and a community Festival in the Summer. There are around 900 public performances per year. Clwyd Theatr Cymru is supported by the Arts Council of Wales and Flintshire County Council.