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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.
Rachael Lines  In 1998, Rachael graduated from the Northern School of Contemporary Dance, with a BPA degree, and also has a post-graduate certificate in ‘Dance Artists in Education', from the University of Derby. Throughout her training and career, she has performed and toured work by Darshen Singh-Bulher, Alan Greig (X Factor Dance Co ), Emliyn Claid, Sharon Donladson (Phoenix), Helen Parlor (Motionhouse), Lorena Todino, Gill Levell & Simon Birch (Nexus), Kuldip Sing-Barmi, Sue Smith, Charlotte Derbyshire, Dave French & David Toole (CandoCo). As a choreographer and workshop facilitator she has worked for a number of national organiastions and agencies, working with all ages and abilities from nursery aged children to professional dancers. Since 2001, Rachael has been the Artistic Director of FRONTLINEdance, an integrated dance company, where she has choreographed; collaborated with muicians/film makers/fine artsists; performed nationally; taught; delivered inset; created education packs; created and managed many projects and tours. Contact: rachael@staffsdancecollective.co.uk
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.
Clare Reynolds 
Since studying Dance at Laban, London, Clare has established herself as 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 Clare has developed two Arts Council and locally funded projects to develop temporary art and performance work in the public realm. Website: www.restoke.org.uk Contact: clare_reyn@hotmail.com
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  Providing Choreography, Movement Direction, Workshops and Performance, currently based in Staffordshire and with a decade of experience in professional arts, Lisa is now Creative Director of Physically Speaking – The Foundation for Natural Dance, delivering workshops, education and professional collaborations. Lisa works with the ethos ‘if you can move...you can dance...and all movement can become dance!’ Focusing on the importance of movement as a valuable tool of communication and creative expression, building self-confidence, aspirations, self-esteem and individuality. Encouraging expression from the soul...through the body, using spontaneity and instinct!
As a freelancer she is collaborating on various projects in 2007 including Arts Council West Midlands Moving Image initiative Fracture working with Birmingham based vj & video artist Leon Trimble of Chromatouch Visuals creating moving image installations as Grooving Image Productions. She has choreographed numerous contemporary dance pieces for community arts organizations, theatres and education as well projects for councils, dance development agencies and Creative Partnerships, with whom she spoke at the DfES in Whitehall, in October 2006. She has worked as a special skills artist for Granada Television, performed at New Vic Studio, New Vic Theatre, SJ Theatre, Scarborough, Octagon Theatre, Bolton & Green Room Manchester. She is training in Lau Gar Kung Fu and has gold certification in BADC Stage Combat- Dagger, rapier, single sword & unarmed combat.
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. Following 3 ½ years based in South East England, she has returned to Cheshire hoping to re-establish herself as a freelance dance artist.
Emma Casbon
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