Dance Artist & Educator for over 50's
I want to start asking the question “What is dance?”. Many people I meet through dance classes and teaching, or elsewhere in my artistic work, express varying ideas but they often find it easier to say what they don’t think dance is
Migrations is a collection of stories from older people sharing their emotional journeys of leaving one place to arrive at another. The piece explores the stories of elders and their experiences of migration as well as the movement of people from one place to another. Jane Judd and I have collaborated to […]
Have you ever read the news, listened to the radio or watched the TV and thought “Boy! Why is it all bad news, doesn’t anything good ever happen?!”. I suppose there’s always some article about good “happenings” or positive “things” but it seems to me that the majority of news […]
On Thursday just gone members of Counterpoint Dance Company and I took a trip over to The Place to work with London Contemporary Dance School’s third year students.
In our second article from the men’s corner we’re going to hear from Geoff, who’s in his 80’s ++++ and takes 4 to 5 dance classes a week including performing with a well known performance dance group and a “dancing to the musicals” group. Introducing Geoff…
This months review comes from Maureen Brown who recently joined the creative and ballet classes at the Claremont Project. Maureen enjoyed being part of the Big Dance last summer and danced at Trafalgar Square with an elders group along side younger people’s groups and Wayne McGregor professional dance Troupe. Here Maureen […]