Mentoring creative and inclusive dance pedagogy, facilitating high quality & meaningful dance encounters.
The Teaching Artist programme partners Middlesex University’s Dance department with Sunnyfields Primary School.
The annual programme brings together children and emerging graduates in a 6-week collaborative process of creative dance making. Each project explore topics of the global consciousness through movement, drawing, discussion, and creativity.
Weekly creative workshops develop transferable skills in teamwork, leadership, communication, dexterity and creativity whilst providing a space to build self-esteem. Abilities that support both the children and graduates thrive within their journeys of education and employment. Expanding perceptions of what dance in school can be.
Each project is underpinned by training and mentorship for the undergraduate teaching artists. With a focus on creative, inclusive dance leadership, the student teaching artists engage in professional development, reflection, collective teaching, observation and feedback.
The proportion of dance students that have undertaken the Teaching Artist programme who are now in either schools-based or freelance teaching is around 95%, including those who have opened their own dance school businesses.
Now in it’s ninth year the Teaching Artist programme has engaged over 270 children and mentored 52 undergraduate Teaching Artists. The project has performed work at London venues Arts Depot, the Royal Air Force Museum and Middlesex University.
(Image credits Brian Slater).
The Teaching Artist Programme: A Film for Barnet & Culture for Youth
This short film has been commissioned by Barnet and Culture for Youth, Access Fund to demonstrate the Teaching Artists impact in Employability, Education & Learning, Health & Wellbeing and Life Chances for young people in the London Borough of Barnet.
The programme also features as a case study in the boroughs new Cultural Education Strategy.
Project Film Archive
The Wild Escape (2023)
Middlesex University (Dance), Sunnyfields Primary School, The Royal Air Force Museum London & Art Fund UK.
Teaching Artists: Ana-Teodora Glodeanu, Carolina Simoes Vidal, Chloe Barker, Lucy Jukes, Marie Palmer, Rhea Johnson, Scarlet Hurford, Kate Denneny, Ellie Toy.
Collaborators: Kirsty Ward
I HOPE…(2022)
Middlesex University (Dance) & Sunnyfields Primary School.
Teaching Artists: Tegan Emery-Barker, Alexis Ann McCleave, Hoi Kiu Lee, Ellie Dean, Erin Kristiansen, Ashleigh-Morgan Reed, Mariyah Jeyda Mahmood, Thailee Nunes Malter, Teleri Symons, Chloe Jenkins and Kianna Dalton.
Project Assistant: Teresa Skamletz
Film animation: Anthony Lavagna
A Pledge to Our Planet (2020)
Middlesex University (Dance) & Sunnyfields Primary School
Teaching Artists: Jack Sibley, Joana Camilo, Bobbie Tina Cadden, Sam Reid, Louisa Pitman, Jordan Cottingham, Naomi Chappell, Georgia Edwards, Isabel Ribeiro, Agnė Sakalauskaitė, Stavrianna Theodorou, Tally-Jo Mogg, Lynn Harkness.
The Power of Me (2019)
Middlesex University (Dance) & Sunnyfields Primary School
Teaching Artists: Olivia Capon-Russell, Gemma Dormer, Emma Sanderson, Emily Newbury, Morgan Ash
Project Assistant: Harry Fulleylove
Hero’s of our Landscape (2018)
Middlesex University (Dance), Sunnyfields Primary School & the Royal Air Force Museum London.
Teaching Artists: Gabriella Mauro, Katie Page, Georgia Dunn, Georgina Nulty, Laura-Beth Connelly, Amy Watkins
Project Assistant: Christina Binney
Wings of Love (2017)
Middlesex University (Dance), Sunnyfields Primary School & the Royal Air Force Museum London.
Teaching Artists: Sophie Cragg, Jordan Grigg
Project Assistant: Christina Binney
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Unwinding (2016)
Middlesex University (Dance), The Orion Primary School & the Royal Air Force Museum London.
Teaching Artists: Bethan Fallon, Freja Coles, Leanne Steel, Sorcha Garvey, Louisa Pouli, Amber Ashby
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Primary Partnerships - Curriculum Themes (2015)
Middlesex University (Dance), The Orion Primary School.
Teaching Artists: Bethany Alice Holmes, Kelly Elizabeth, Ashleigh Elizabeth, Emilija Valancauskaite