Make Your Own Entertainment was a residency project for the AirSpace Gallery, co-created with ‘entertainer’ troupe dancers
Using a disused factory as a studio and informal museum space, I invited members of the ‘entertainer troupe dancing community—unique to the English Midlands—to create a temporary tribute to carnival performance in Stoke-on-Trent, through making, choreography and installation…



Learn more…
‘“What a Troupe Family Does”: Family as Transmission Narrative in the British Carnival Troupe Dancing Community’
Dance Research Journal, vol. 37, no. 1 (2019), pp. 35 – 58
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