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| Staffordshire Dance Collective - Members
As a group, the eleven core members bring a wealth of skills and experience to the collective. As choreographers, their artistic practice involves integrated dance, live art, text, fusion of dance styles, and working collaboratively with musicians, visual artists, filmmakers, and award winning film directors. They work choreographically and teach/facilitate professional dance artists, children and young people, further & higher education students, older people and people with a disability. Their work also includes ‘looked after children’ and those who are classed as ‘disadvantaged and at risk’ including young people who have been permanently or temporally excluded from school.
Anna Macdonald
Anna has been a member of Forecast since 2002 along with dance artist Penny Collinson (Ludus, Motionhouse) and Olivier award winning director Mark Whitelaw. Forecast is a collective committed to long term research into dance within an interdisciplinary context. Their latest work 'Wordsolos' is touring nationally in Spring/Autumn 07 in double bills with Andrea Buckley and Lisi Perry’s company Collision. Anna’s work has been supported regularly by the Arts Council for several years. Alongside her ongoing work with Forecast, she has collaborated with, amongst others, Kirsten Davidson (Piano Circus), Paula Hampson (Yolande Snaith, Chapter 4), Andrea Buckley (Kirsty Simpson, Chapter 4) and Heidi Rustgaarde (H2 dance). Anna has an MA in choreography and is a Senior Lecturer in Dance and Live Arts at Manchester Metropolitan University where she has been programme leader for SH and JH Dance for the past two years.
Website: www.forecastdance.org
Clare Reynolds
Trained at Laban, London, Clare is an Independent Dance Artist performing, creating and delivering work across the Midlands and Northwest. Based in Stoke-on-Trent she works with companies including: FRONTLINEdance, Blue Eyed Soul, ART BRASIL and regional organisations Cheshire Dance and DanceXchange. She has been involved in several large-scale site-specific events both as a performer and choreographer. Now focusing on developing her own collaborative site-specific projects creating relevant and place-influenced work. As part of a collective of three individual artists 're:stoke' Clare develops projects to generate temporary art and performance work in the public realm.
Website: www.restoke.org.uk
Amy Tomson
Amy began her training at The Stoke-on-Trent College, and continued at Bretton Hall gaining an honours degree in Dance. Amy has worked with Ruby Dance, FRONTLINEdance, Salamanda Tandem, Hull Trunch Theatre, Gerry Turvey, Lucy Cullingford, Jordi Cortes Molina, Wardrobe Dance Theatre, and performers from DV8 and Pina Bausch Dance Company. Amy has taught dance at Bretton Hall University and Doncaster College as well as a variety of local schools, colleges and community groups.
Contact: Amy_Tomson@hotmail.com
Lisa Wetton
BACA (Hons)
Creative Director of Physically Speaking - The Foundation
for Natural Dance. Graduated 1997 BA Creative Arts
(Hons) Contemporary Dance Theatre.
Live Arts forms the basis of study, choreography,
interaction, film, sound, theatre, dance, devising, language, installations and
an inherent drive to work across art forms digitally. Lisa has collaborated
with film-makers, story-tellers, costume makers, dj’s and vj’s (visual
specialists), visual artists, musicians, physical theatre performers and
site-specific devisors from the UK and further afield.
In 2007 Lisa co-ordinated & choreographed a short
experimental 360 degree short 'Written on the body', the first dance film of
it’s kind, screened at Thinktank’s Digital Planetarium, Birmingham. This work
exhibited at The Grand Rapids Museum in Michigan (USA) in October 2010 and
forms the basis of DanceXchange’s 360 education project. With over a decade of experience leading dance/movement/creative workshops for all ages in the community and throughout the education system nationally, Lisa is also trained in Lau Gar Kung Fu and has Gold Certification from the British Academy of Dramatic Combat in 5 weapons and unarmed combat training.
Website: www.physicallyspeaking.co.uk
Kate Wilcock
Since graduating from Liverpool John Moores University in 2006 where she gained a BA HONS in Dance Studies, Kate has been establishing and building upon her freelance teaching career in the northwest through Cheshire Dance. Kate has formed her own dance company together with two peers from university. 'LIBERATE Dance Company' circulates its work around the northwest and is performing as part of the BDE Fringe Festival in Liverpool at the beginning of February 08. Kate is trained in Contemporary, Jazz and Street dance and comes from a strong Ballet background. She is also be qualified to teach aerobic classes, and plans to fuse her dance training within these classes.
 Laura Scott
Laura Scott studied dance from an early age and begun her choreographic journey as Choreographer for the Millennium Youth Theatre Company during 1996 and 1997. She completed her BA Hons Dance training at the University of Leeds (York campus) under the guidance of Cathy Burge and June Gersten-Roberts. She was also awarded the Ede and Ravenscroft Prize for Outstanding Achievement for her final choreographic piece. Laura trained further and danced with Springs Dance Company based in London. She has performed at various European arts festivals including Anno Domini Multifestival – Italy and the New Year Celebration for Europe - Germany (filmed for Sky). Laura was the artistic director and dancer for the Kardia Foundation/ Belhaven College (USA) English Tour in July 2006. She is currently Head of Dance at Ingestre Arts Centre, Stafford – a residential arts centre unique to the UK. She recently travelled to Thamkrakbok monastery in Thailand, on a research and development trip with a team from Ingestre Arts during which she designed a choreographic tool from an ancient method of writing music and also worked closely with drug addicts based at the monastery in a dance therapy role. Laura was selected to create a dance piece using the method she had developed for the New Vibes choreographic platform at the DanceXchange in July 2007. Most recently she has received grants from the Arts Council and Staffordshire County Council to create a dance film tackling the issues of recycling and the effect of our actions on the environment.
Helen Mulford 
Being passionate about dance and performance has lead Helen from enjoying dance classes at the age of three, to reading Contemporary Arts Dance and Drama at Manchester Metropolitan University graduating in 2003 with BA Honours. Following this time she has been involved in a number of small projects, performances and performance for film. These include, Cheshire Dance ‘Combine Project’ under direction of Rosemary Lee and Peter Anderson, performance as ‘ghost’ in fellow graduate Chris Matics’ ‘The Legend of Ezra L’eveque’. And performances at Manchester’s Green Room and Royal Exchange Theatre. She has also delivered classes of varying dance styles, including freestyle and contemporary, within the community and primary schools under the council driven Bromley Mytime initiative and IDTA National Dance Company. Helen has additionally worked alongside and has had association with, the contemporary dance companies; FRONTLINEdance, Forecast, Lavantes Dance, Stealth Art, and The Quiet Underground.
Lynne McConnel
A native of Blackpool, Lynne studied theatre at Lancaster
University. After leaving university, Lynne worked initially as a teacher and
freelance dance artists for Ludus Dance, before working as a dancer in numerous
comissioned stage and film pieces for Co3 Dance, based in Chester. In 2007 she
worked as a contemporary dance teacher at The Hammond School, specialising in
Release and Cunningham-based techniques. Branching out from her dance work, Lynne has worked as a
casting assistant for various companies including Chloe Emmerson Casting (BILLY
ELLIOTT, BRIDGET JONES'S DIARY, SEXY BEAST) and in 2005 she co-formed her own
production company Rotten Park Road, working to produce numerous stage plays
which toured nationally in theatre and non-theatre spaces, selling out in multiple
venues. She has produced numerous stage plays and short films, some
of which have gone on to win awards. She is currently an associate member of
the Producer's Forum and is involved in producing the feature film HIS NAME WAS
BEN. Lynne currently lives in Leek, working both as a freelance
dance artist and as a producer for Rotten Park Road.
Website: www.rottenparkroad.com
Nina Lomas
Emma Casbon
Kate Hallam
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