Edge Hill Dance Company

Dance @edgehilluniversity featuring our extra-curricular Extra-Edge, Graduate events from our Grad-Hub, and curricular work.

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I would also say enjoy what you do and never compare your path to anyone else’s.’

Photo credits
1 Heather Marlow-Stephenson
2 Innovations festival 2017
4 Nicola Shelby

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Graduate Spotlight…Kate Battersby!

Kate graduated from Edge Hill in 2017 and went straight into freelancing. She delivered creative dance sessions within schools and performed with Company Chameleon and Lisa Simpson Inclusive Dance Company.

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Her advice to students is ‘say yes to the opportunities given to you. I often look back to my experiences at Edge Hill because of people I worked with. The dance world is very small and everyone has mutual links.

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Check out @cheshiredance and @Movema who as part of the Wildfire Rising Programme are delivering Artist Development Days across 2023!

Link to sign up here: https://t.co/OSJQge8Ybd

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Later to be redrafted into Mark’s first book ‘Mesearch and the Performing Body’ (2018).

We are so happy to have Mark apart of the dance team at Edge Hill!

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Introducing @DrMarkEdward ! Mark has worked at Edge Hill for 19 years now, working as Programme Leader for Dance, Senior Lecture in Performance and is currently a Reader in Creative Arts. Alongside teaching our students and supervising PhD students,

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Liverpool John Moores University, a PGCert in HE PSHE accredited by the University of Liverpool, and a PhD at the University of Leeds with research on the Temporality of the Performing Body - movement, memory, mesearch.

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OPPORTUNITY!
We are excited to share we have been given an exclusive 50% discount code for our final year students and graduates for Rambert Grades syllabus training!

Contact us for more information to get involved!

Read more here: https://t.co/BsVMiXxUkc

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We had the best time performing as part of the Mela Festival of South Asian Arts and Culture!

Thank you to Abhinandana Smile for the beautiful choreography and performance.

Some students also had the opportunity to perform again at Light Up Lancaster!

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An insight into our Grad-Hub yesterday, thank you everyone for your energy and Rachel and Jane for your sessions!

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Grad Hub event this Sunday, book your free place now! https://t.co/FphyliGA2W We will start with a class led by Rachel Hancock and in the
afternoon we will have a CPD session with Jane McLean – freelance dance artist and Artistic Director of @cheshiredance

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We are so proud of some of our students and alumni who performed as part of Ludus Dance Company over the weekend, performing ‘WeRave’ created with Manchester based Night People @ludusdance @LightUpLanc

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Edge Hill students and graduates, join us on Tuesday from 12-2pm to take part in an exciting workshop with @VincentDT! Learn repertoire and explore creative tasks from the company’s work ‘Hold Tight’ which will performed at 7:30pm in the @ArtsCentreEHU