Month: May 2021

FREE ONLINE Taster Session

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As part of our targeted consultancy, Maiya Leeke will be leading a free online dance session for wheelchair users;

  • THURSDAY 10th June (6:30pm-7:30pm) – 14+

To book a place and receive your Zoom link, please email hello@frontlinedance.co.uk

Thanks so much to everyone who has filled out Miaya, Isilda and Katies survey questions. There is still time if you haven’t done so already. We’d really appreciate it if you could find some time to complete;

For our local ethnic diverse community: https://forms.gle/m6s4GYubgsfyYkjD8

For our local wheelchair users: https://forms.office.com/r/L2BvG1EQNT

For those wheelchair users working in dance: https://forms.office.com/r/HNQrmNz1iQ

We really appreciate it – Thank You.

Join Our Board!

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FRONTLINEdance is urgently seeking applications for Voluntary Chair, Directors and members of the Board. Deadline: 30th June 2021. Appointments made on 8th July at our AGM

For FRONTLINEdance and the board to run efficiently and effectively, we require a range of skills from a diverse group of people. This means we are open for you to tell us what you can offers us as a director, a member or chair of the board. All positions our voluntary.

We need a mix of experience and skills, both professional and lived. We are looking for different types of people from different backgrounds, who believe in the work we do and want to help us not only to continue but to move forward. Enthusiasm for the work we do across, our key areas of Performance, Heath and Community, as well as having the time to dedicate to us is important.

So, if you have valuable knowledge and life experience, or other great skills that would provide balance to our board – apply now!

FRONTLINEdance is committed to inclusivity and diversity, and we actively encourage applications from people whose backgrounds are currently underrepresented in our board; specifically, people who identify as (d)Deaf and disabled and / or are ethnically diverse.

You can attend meetings via zoom, so you do not need to be local to FRONTLINEdance.

Download a recruitment pack and an application form.

Helen Yeomans

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Helen started dancing at the age of 3 doing ballet, jazz and tap but around the age of 12 found a real love of Contemporary dance and went on to graduate in 1997 from The Laban Centre for Movement and Dance (now Trinity Laban) with a degree in Dance Theatre with a special interest in education.

Over the last twenty plus years Helen has performed in theatre and site-specific performances with several companies including ‘Attic’ in Plymouth and Micha Purucker’s ‘Dance Energy’ in Germany, taught dance workshops in education and community settings for people 6 months to 100 years old, worked as a Community & Education Officer and qualified as a Body Control Pilates Instructor.

After re locating from the South to Staffordshire 15 years ago Helen has continued to work as a community dance artist and alongside her work in schools has been enjoying leading community dance classes for the over 60’s and has become involved with Arts for Health, teaching movement sessions for older adults with depression and/or dementia in a hospital setting.  Helen has also loved performing as a community dancer in 3 of ReStoke’s site specific performances, Palace (disused church), Expedition (promenade through streets) and Voyagers (disused swimming pool).

Helen became involved with FRONTLINEdance a couple of years ago and began leading some sessions for adult’s with neurological conditions.  She also performed in, ‘Nest’ a short dance film by Welly O’Brien and Kate Marsh which was commissioned by FRONTLINEdance as part of the FAF festival.

Helen is excited to be involved with FRONTLINEdance and is looking forward to sharing ideas and having a fresh focus to help inform the next 20 years as a Community Dance Artist!

When not dancing Helen is kept busy with her two children, loves running and also making clothes.  Over the recent pandemic whilst not being able to work fully Helen has been volunteering, collecting shopping and prescriptions for those isolating and helping at a vaccination centre.

Charlotte Arnold

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Originally from Suffolk, Charlotte is a freelance dance artist based in Leeds, blending performing, teaching, creating and writing into her practice. She regularly teaches from children to adults as well as directs her own dance theatre company ACCA and edits a digital magazine, Artychoke. You can find her on Instagram here: @charr_arnold / @accacollab / @artychokezine and visit her website here: www.charlottearnold.co.uk

Katie Albon

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Katie is a dance artist based in Birmingham. She graduated with a First Class BA (Hons) from Trinity Laban in 2013 and then went on to tour with MAPdance (University of Chichester) in 2014. Katie is currently a company dancer and rehearsal director for Springs Dance Company’ London. She has also worked with Autin Dance Theatre, Ascension Dance, Here We Are Dance and Caldonia Walton as part of Birmingham Dance Networks’ ‘Choreomatch’. Katie has enjoyed teaching and facilitating in a range of settings with organisations such as Birmingham DanceXchange, Open Theatre and Springs Dance Company and is passionate about bringing people joy through movement.
Katie is thrilled to be working with FRONTLINEdance.






Cultural Recovery Fund

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FRONTLINEdance is relieved, excited, and thankful to be awarded the Government’s Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport’s, Cultural Recovery Fund so that we can continue, develop, and ensure we can execute all of our exciting new plans later in the year. This means we have some new temporary positions both in our Artistic Team and Office Team.

FRONTLINEdance were among more than 2,700 recipients to benefit from the latest round of awards from the £1.57 billion Culture Recovery Fund. The second round of awards made last week will help organisations such as us look ahead to the spring and summer and plan for reopening and recovery. After months of closures and cancellations to contain the virus and save lives, this funding will be a much-needed helping hand for organisations transitioning back to normal in the months ahead. 
The funding has been awarded by Arts Council England, as well as Historic England and National Lottery Heritage Fund and the British Film Institute.