Join Dance Mama Founder/CEO, Lucy McCrudden, for a brief snippet of conversation with Melody Sinclair (Assistant Choreographer, Six The Musical UK Tour ) after she led the first Dance Mama Live adult’s workshop in person (and hybrid) since the pandemic, for professional dancing parents One Dance UK, Birmingham. Melanie speaks about her experiences as a female choreographer in musical theatre and how she has navigated including pregnant dancers in her work with comment and ideas from the live audience and Lucy. This, our third podcast series holds tantalising snippets of the conversations we had on Dance Mama Live Back On The Road - season 2 of our professional development programme, specially made for and about parents in dance supported by Arts Council England.
It followed our first Dance Mama Live 2021-22 which was entirely delivered online and is available to engage in for free when you
sign up to our site. Season 2 was our post-pandemic follow-up, where we were able to go ‘back on the road’ and get out and about in person as well as virtually to 10 national dance organisations across the UK.
This third podcast series will enable you to get a glimpse
of what we got up to speaking to great British dance artists and makers
including; Lizzie Klotz, Siobhan Hayes, Folk Dance Remixed, Sally Knight - Artistic Director of CScape Dance, Melody Sinclair - Associate Choreographer of Six The Musical, Company Chameleon,
Eleesha Drennan, Alleyne Dance, Anna Watkins and York Dance Studio.
To experience the full enchilada of 40-hours of workshops
and webinars we have produced on Dance Mama Live, head on over to our
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- access all this inspirational and informative content
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You can also see series 1 and 2 of our podcast in video
format on our YouTube channel
part of our collection of over 70 stories.
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The conversation in this episode was recorded in March 2023
as part of Dance Mama Live Back On The Road supported by Arts Council
England.
It features reflections on the project from participants who
took part in the project when it toured to Sadler’s Wells. The full edit of
this can be viewed in our film by Flett Films and Tambrisk Pictures here: https://youtu.be/zsUd-N5lNn8 .
