The Evolution of Dance
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Bear Steps Hall 2 St Alkmond Place, Shrewsbury, SY1 1UJ
St Alkmond Place
Shrewsbury
SY1 1UJ
United Kingdom
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Maggie’s career includes West End musicals, films, top drama schools and a stint in the USA.
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Maggies talk on The Evolution of Dance will take you on a journey through the dance forms of Western Civilisation and its influence on Social History.
Maggie’s career has included West End musicals, films, top drama schools and a stint in America. She is a dance /movement specialist with Royal credits. Her work has encompassed a variety of Shakespeare productions and Festivals across the World, and is employed as the choreographer/ movement specialist for Film, Television and Classical Theatre.
Maggie’s is a choreographer, movement specialist and dance historian, her career has included West End musicals, films, top acting schools and a stint in America.
She left Shrewsbury to be a dancer on the West End stage and within a few years was choreographing her first West End musical; Grease in 1979.
Her film credits include Fame (1980), Heaven’s Gate (1980), various music videos in the and since returning to the UK in the 21stc. she has been involved in a variety of documentary films for the UK and Europe Television.
She taught at prestigious London acting schools in Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art, head of the faculty at The Central School of Speech and Drama, Drama Studio, Guildford School of Acting and Dance, The Lee Strasberg Studio in London, Bennett Studio in San Francisco – Stanislavski method. In addition, she worked with academics and historians at Cambridge University.
At present, she is working on a project involving the beginnings of English Dance centred on a gentleman who grew up in Shrewsbury and during his life became internationally famous.