Mel Simpson Dance 💃

Dance Artist/Choreographer. Leading provider of Dance Curriculum Workshops 🇬🇧&🌎 •CPD/INSET•KS1-KS5💃Zoom🍓QTS•BAhons• Enquiries 📧 [email protected]

[Mel Simpson Dance 💃 @MelSimpsonDance]

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[Mel Simpson Dance 💃 @MelSimpsonDance]

Just LOVED my workshop with these guys! SO much talent in the studio!! 💪💪💪 Can’t wait for the next time! 💃 ♥️ #danceineducation #curriculumdanceworkshops #qtsdance #gcsedance #btecdance #aleveldance #pearson #aqadance #melsimpsondance

[Saddleworth School @saddleworth_sch]

Our unbelievable Year 11/Year 10 BTEC Performing Arts dancers did our school incredibly proud at the Professional Dance workshop by Mel Simpson @MelSimpsonDance on the theme Revelations by Alvin Ailey... Amazing work girls... Just inspiring to watch, keep up your hard work!

[Mel Simpson Dance 💃 @MelSimpsonDance]

@saddleworth_sch Just LOVED my workshop with you all! SO much talent in the studio!! 💪💪💪 Thank you for booking with me - can’t wait for the next time! 💃 ♥️

[Mel Simpson Dance 💃 @MelSimpsonDance]

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[Mel Simpson Dance 💃 @MelSimpsonDance]

PROUD!! Where they all started… where they have got to after our workshops!! These young dancers were total sponges!!
🧽 Soaking up all advice
🧠 Learning new movement phrases
💪 Learning lifts & contact work
👀 Enhancing performance
♥️ Communicating character
#attainment

[Mel Simpson Dance 💃 @MelSimpsonDance]

Lovely evening celebrating the 10 yr anniversary of @ArtsNetworkS @soundloungeCIC @DougShawArt @zoescammell and many more!! ♥️
#artsnetworksutton #ans #creativecommunity #soundloungesutton #makeartnotwar #createdonthate #suttonSWLondon #suttonborough #carshalton #sm1 #wallington

[Mel Simpson Dance 💃 @MelSimpsonDance]

💥 Another ⚡️electric⚡️ workshop yesterday!
We didn’t have long- but we worked intensively and got LOTS done. Lots of learning, improving, enhancing, expanding!
An excellent bunch of Apple Strudels 😂
#youthdance #ambition #strive #learn #grow #dancetechnique

[Mel Simpson Dance 💃 @MelSimpsonDance]

@Dannythechamp @petshopboys No wonder you give a stagey hug!! 😂 ♥️ #dahling

[Mel Simpson Dance 💃 @MelSimpsonDance]

These two workshops involved LOTS of hard work, focus, determination to learn all the choreography, individual creativity and stamina to make it through! 👊💪💪💪😂 😅

[Mel Simpson Dance 💃 @MelSimpsonDance]

After a couple of Days Off (woohoo!) spent in London 🖼 ART & at an excellent gig 🎵 it’s time to get back to the ‘daily grind’- luckily my grind is JOYFUL & looks like this!! ⬇️ 🥰 ♥️🙌
Photo from a recent AWESOME ZOOM 💻 workshop - with BRILLIANT BEANY, students!! 😂😂🤣😅

[Mel Simpson Dance 💃 @MelSimpsonDance]

@songsbyhannah @_CaffeNero_ No way!! Look at you go Hannah!! ♥️♥️♥️♥️

[Mel Simpson Dance 💃 @MelSimpsonDance]

@EmmaM_Dance Thanks so much Emma! Good times! ♥️🥰

[Mel Simpson Dance 💃 @MelSimpsonDance]

👣 Loved Thursday- nurturing young choreographers… We explored so many methods, tasks, exercises, devices and ‘ways in’…
Massive ♥️ THANK YOU ♥️ to all the schools and colleges I’ve had the pleasure to work with over the last seven weeks!!#DanceInEducation #youthdance

[Mel Simpson Dance 💃 @MelSimpsonDance]

📻 “Radio silence”… it’s been *MENTAL* - pretty much back-to-back workshops since the start of September! 💪😅
Grateful to be a busy bee 🐝 freelancer! Hence total lack of updates!🤷‍♀️
#melsimpsondance

[Mel Simpson Dance 💃 @MelSimpsonDance]

@TimSmith2021 Wow! Look at all this total LOVE for @TimSmith2021 and vinyl @HeyKidsShop @Dannythechamp !! ♥️🥰

[Mel Simpson Dance 💃 @MelSimpsonDance]

@HeyKidsShop ♥️♥️♥️!

[Mel Simpson Dance 💃 @MelSimpsonDance]

@songsbyhannah @septembersongUK @robinfbennett @LisaDoscher 💔 So beautiful

[Mel Simpson Dance 💃 @MelSimpsonDance]

@soundloungeCIC AWESOME! Congrats to the whole team!

[Mel Simpson Dance 💃 @MelSimpsonDance]

This resonates! Move, learn…

[Naomi Fisher @naomicfisher]

One of the first things many young people learn at school is that learning means being still.

At primary school it’s about sitting on your bottom and not fiddling with your pencil. Walking not running, and putting your hand up before you speak. Staying in your chair, even when you’re desperate to crawl under the table or lie on the floor.

At secondary school it carries on. Some schools insist that young people track the teacher with their eyes, and won’t allow them to reach into their bag for a water bottle without asking. Every move is choreographed and on command. They say this maximises learning.

We tell children that to learn they need to listen, and to listen they need to keep still. That’s particularly hard for children, and so a lot of their energy is spent trying to conform with that. For some, it’s much harder, and they get in trouble for bouncing and jumping. The movement bursts out of them, and then we tell them they can’t learn like that.

It’s not true. If you watch children learning out of school, they move and twirl and jump. They lie on the floor whilst listening to stories and hang off the monkey bars whilst they think. They ask unexpected questions at inconvenient times. They make new connections whilst sitting on the toilet, bouncing on the trampoline or when watching TV. They run around and then come back to the story. They express their feelings through their body.

Schools control children’s bodies to manage large numbers, but that doesn’t mean that stillness is the best way to learn. As adults, many of us must work hard to reconnect to our bodies. We’ve learnt to ignore our urge to move and we can’t understand why we feel so terrible after hours at a desk.

The things we learn at school run deep. But learning is about connection, not disconnection, and we can’t leave our bodies out of that.

Let’s reclaim our right to be active.

Many of us need to move to learn, and that goes both for our children and ourselves

[Mel Simpson Dance 💃 @MelSimpsonDance]

@Dannythechamp @soundloungeCIC An EXCELLENT time was had!! Thanks Danny!!