This workshop with freelance dance artist and primary dance specialist Jo Cone will introduce processes and practices which will support dance practitioners in creating ‘offers’ of work which meet the needs of local nurseries and primary schools.
The session will not cover creative content of offers but will support you to get started or support your current practice to become more sustainable within this setting. It will also direct you to other resources for further support.
Jo will be available for follow up support in her role as one of the coordinators of the Primary Dance Network. Jo will be offering mentoring later in the year through her ACE funding.
About the artist
Jo Cone - upon graduating from Chichester University with a BA Hons in Dance and Related Arts Jo worked as a freelance dance artist locally and nationally creating choreographic work, delivering workshops and projects to adults and children with and without learning disabilities as well as older adults in stroke rehab and living with dementia.
Delivering training and cross curriculum projects in primary schools and nurseries, and becoming a Mum led her to create Doodle Dance, a specific approach which combines anatomical and neuroscience, developmental research, dance, arts and play to promote well being in children alongside their care givers.
Recent success in receiving Arts Council Funding means Jo is able to further develop Doodle Dance offering support to other artists through the FUEL COLLECTIVE. Writing the book ‘Making a Move’ with fellow artists Claire Pring and Louise Jaggard has led her to create the MAM team and become joint coordinator of Primary School Dance Network. Her current research into sustainability is being shared through the network and in further books and webinars, benefiting artists to sustain their work now and beyond. Jo is also currently researching, writing, creatively devising to expand the resources and opportunities to children, parent/carers, nursery staff and teachers and taking the work into new settings, supporting more children to ‘Make their Mark!’. Jo has recently been appointed to One Dance Uk’s Primary Advocacy Panel.
You can connect with Jo via www.doodledance.org.uk
Photo credit: Jo Cone.
