CPD Training
My CPD Training draws on 12 years of professional practice in Early Years Dance and Music. I have delivered training to nursery staff, and dance and music artists for organisations including Magic Acorns, Norfolk and Norwich Festival Bridge, Dance East, Anglia Ruskin University and West Ipswich Teaching College.
Training helps to build confidence in practitioners to allow children's creativity to flourish within their sessions. CPD sessions will show practitioners how to use imagery, playfulness and rapport to encourage movement and music. Training will identify how to support areas of early childhood development.
Training helps to build confidence in practitioners to allow children's creativity to flourish within their sessions. CPD sessions will show practitioners how to use imagery, playfulness and rapport to encourage movement and music. Training will identify how to support areas of early childhood development.
Dance and Music Sessions for Babies and Toddlers
My work with babies and children in their early years seeks to support the individuality of the child. My sessions are fun and creative and draw from a range of stimulus. Sessions provide a rich learning environment through use of a range of props and varied genres of music.
Tiny children are experts in improvisation, movement and musical play. I delight in creating an environment through which children and their significant adults can build a confident dance and musical partnership. I have over a decade of experience delivering dance and music sessions, as separate disciplines but also combined within the same session. I have also delivered sessions online (click here to see video).
I have delivered session for organisations including Magic Acorns, Action for Children, The Garage Norwich, Copperdot Studio, and Norwich Theatre Royal (find booking for current classes here).
Tiny children are experts in improvisation, movement and musical play. I delight in creating an environment through which children and their significant adults can build a confident dance and musical partnership. I have over a decade of experience delivering dance and music sessions, as separate disciplines but also combined within the same session. I have also delivered sessions online (click here to see video).
I have delivered session for organisations including Magic Acorns, Action for Children, The Garage Norwich, Copperdot Studio, and Norwich Theatre Royal (find booking for current classes here).
Residencies and Workshops
As an associate artist for Magic Acorns
I was a performer in Magic Adventure, and a lead artist on In-Between Spaces, Near and Far, and The Nest performing at Norwich Castle, Time and Time Museum, Snape Maltings, Primeyark Great Yarmouth and Great Yarmouth Beach
I worked for Turned on its Head to co-deliver 'Shiny' and 'Sponge' playdays for Made with Many
I was a performer in Magic Adventure, and a lead artist on In-Between Spaces, Near and Far, and The Nest performing at Norwich Castle, Time and Time Museum, Snape Maltings, Primeyark Great Yarmouth and Great Yarmouth Beach
I worked for Turned on its Head to co-deliver 'Shiny' and 'Sponge' playdays for Made with Many
Again! Again! R&D projectIn 2021 I received an Arts Council England National Lottery Project Grant to undertake research and development to make an show called Again! Again!
Co-created with 100 children in 3 nurseries Again! Again! explored childhood schemas as a basis for an interactive performance. 'The work you are doing is a joy to watch. The depth of thought and reflections that you are bringing is very special' - Anne O'Connor Early Years Specialist |
SALT Music Action Research Project
I was part of a team of artists from Great Yarmouth Community Trust Sure Start Centre, and Speech and Language therapists (SLT) at East Coast Community Health in the East of England, who undertook a 2 year action research project called SALT Music.
Led by researchers Dr Jessica Pitt and Charlotte Arculus, the project developed pedagogical approaches which 'offer musical, playful approaches which support speech, language and communication needs' . The report for this trailblazing work can be found here
SALT Music was celebrated in the Durham Commission on Creativity and Education p.48 and training has been delivered internationally.
Led by researchers Dr Jessica Pitt and Charlotte Arculus, the project developed pedagogical approaches which 'offer musical, playful approaches which support speech, language and communication needs' . The report for this trailblazing work can be found here
SALT Music was celebrated in the Durham Commission on Creativity and Education p.48 and training has been delivered internationally.