Today Marc and I gave a presentation to 500 rehab specialists, carers and doctors at the 4th International Posture and Wheeled Mobility conference. We had a 45 minute slot that we used to give them...

Abbey Adams, from Carnoustie High School Scottish Dance Theatre was totally awesome. The DVD’s at the start were really good and the dancing was really interesting. It’s made me think...

Lisa Thomson, from Braeview Academy My time with Scottish Dance Theatre was very interesting as we watched DVD’s about what they do and how they express themselves through dance and how the...

Ross McRae, from Perth High School: Today I visited Scottish Dance Theatre. It was an interesting experience. We watched some DVD’s of dance performances, had a tour of the building and...

Marc Brew, SDT's Associate Director fellow and I are about to head back into the studio to create a new duet together. This new work will premiere at the 4th International Posture and Wheeled...

We have almost finished our Spring tour and so far we've performed NQR 15 times and it's still a joy! The piece continues to evolve and show us new things. We are all settling into it much more too...

It is with great excitement that I can announce that, thanks to Scottish Arts Council, my contract as SDT's Dance Agent for Change has been extended for another 2 years! We are in the process of...

Good News! We are delighted to say that, due to a grant from the Scottish Arts Council, we are able to extend the Dance Agent for Change post for another two years so Caroline will now be with us...

Just a quicky - show sold out in London and four star review from The List: "If it seems a little noisy in Dundee at the moment, it’s because there’s some serious groundbreaking going on...

Want to know what people are saying about NQR? The Herald called it 'An absolute cracker of a double bill' and audience feedback was just as enthusiastic: 'I loved the musician on stage' on NQR 'I...

I am currently on the first of probably about 100 trains that I am going to catch as part of this year’s Spring tour. My trusty red backpack, which is bulging at the seams, will be unpacked and...

This has been a week of gathering thoughts and passing them on. I was invited several months ago to go and give a presentation, along with Mairi Taylor, FST’s Access Officer, to staff at the...

After 5 weeks in the studio and countless hours thinking, processing and talking about it we have finally released NQR on the audiences of Dundee and so far the reaction has been very positive. We...

I was recently invited to be involved in a discussion/debate about Dance and Diversity that was part of British Dance Edition. There were lots of people talking about programming and marketing the...

They call Dundee the City of Discovery and this week it lived up to its name! SDT welcomed 10 Disabled Artists from all over the UK, from across art forms, into the Rep’s fantastic rehearsal...

I’m not quite sure how to summarise my recent trip to China with SDT other than saying it was a life altering experience. China was amazing, generous, terrifying (mostly the traffic I must...

Oh and whilst Caroline is busy devising NQR you might like to read an article examining the working relationship behind this piece in Animated, the publication produced by the Foundation for...

Caroline is busy devising NQR (Not Quite Right) at the mo - and more of that in another blog post, but I just wanted to catch you all up about the Disabled Artists Residency that took place in Dundee...

I’m safely back from China where I had 3 amazing weeks full of teaching, learning, creativity and noodles! Our journey began in Shanghai where it was warm and sunny. We had the opportunity to...

Working in the Scottish Dance Theatre as part of my work placement at the Dundee Rep Theatre, was both inspiring and enlightening. I discovered a whole new side of dance, performed by people who had...

It is with great excitement, and some trepidation, that I am counting down the days to my impending departure to China. I am lucky enough to be going with SDT to facilitate education workshops,...

After several months of anticipated waiting, Chisato Minamimura, a Deaf London based choreographer, finally came to Glasgow to lead 2 fantastic days of dance and movement workshops for Deaf people...

Dundee City Council is in the process of developing a Single Equalities scheme. This will mean that any issues around race, ethnicity, disability, faith, gender etc will be considered and planned...

As lots of you are probably aware Janet Smith, SDT’s Artistic Director, Marc Brew and I are collaborating to make a new piece on the company that will premiere next February. So far we’d...

This weekend I boarded yet another train and headed to London for the Liberty Festival – London’s Annual Disability Arts Festival, that happens in Trafalgar Square. I went for many...

Believe it or not but there is only 6 months of my post left – how time flies when you’re having fun!! With this fact in mind, I am currently reviewing statistics, reflecting on what has...

Every have the feeling that you’re not sure if you’re coming or going? Well that was me last week. I started the week performing in Manchester at the Decibel Festival with The FATHoM...

I’m trying to write at least one blog a week and everyone in the SDT office is very aware that sometimes it becomes quite like pulling teeth – I am mainly working on a very elaborate...

Well the Fringe has come and gone after 3½ incredibly busy weeks, about 7000 trees being used for the millions of flyers that were thrust in the faces of the 1000’s of visitors who...

So, the Edinburgh Festival Fringe is finally here and I have 3 precious days to partake in all that it has to offer me – but what and how do I choose what to see?! There are obviously the...

Due to the nature of my job I am in and out of our office a lot – which I love BUT what it does mean is that I do a significant amount of dumping and running. As a consequence this means that...

Last week I had the sheer pleasure of working alongside Ninian Perry and Claire Docherty from Paragon Music, 4 incredible dance support workers and 5 fabulously feisty young disabled women at Tramway...

Mairi Taylor, FST’s Access Manager, and I have been ‘travelling all over the countryside’ imparting our wisdom on groups of unsuspecting venue staff. Well actually, we’ve just...

Marc, Janet and I have actually started creating a new dance piece in collaboration with each other. We have been researching and developing, or rather inflicting our creative ideas on the dancers in...

Scottish Dance Theatre is going to present a new double bill of new work premiering in February 2010, which includes a new work by Janet Smith in collaboration with myself and Marc Brew. Its called...

This Autumn SDT is hosting a Disabled Dance Artist Residency (while the rest of the company are away at the Fringe we're going to make the most of the empty studio), creating a new piece for the...

Today I asked participants who came to the ‘Do your thing’ Taster session why they’d come – ‘To learn some new moves’, ‘To move in new ways’ ‘To...

Jo Verrent, who is carrying out the impact assessment of my post, has been at the Rep this week conducting interviews with staff members from the Rep and SDT. A resounding comment that keeps coming...

I’ve had a fantastic week working with 2 musicians, Ninian and Claire from Paragon Music. We’ve been ‘Making Music Move’ in Special Schools throughout Glasgow –...

This week saw the long awaited ‘Moving On’ encounter in Glasgow. We were reassured at the beginning of the day that there would be parts of the day that we would like and parts that we...

We had another Creative Thinking Group meeting the other day which was chaired by Jo Verrent. She made us all think about the myths around disability dance and disabled dancers - and work out which...

So I'm really on tour again! Our administrator, Viktoria, has managed to find a bus that is able to accommodate all the dancers and ME!! It's fantastic! This week we've been in Ullapool - a most...

We had the first tech rehearsal for our show that opens next week last night and following the rehearsal something in me just didn't feel good at all. I couldn't really put my finger on it...

This week I was faced with what some could see as being the terrible task of completing my first Scottish Arts Council Interim report. Whilst there is the possibility that one could feel a little...

Part of my job here at SDT is about me performing in our Interactives (performances designed specifically for school audiences). So knowing this, (in between teaching students at the Scottish School...

I've had a hugely indulgent and fascinating week in the studio working with the very talented Claire Cunningham. I learnt a huge amount about my creative process and how one can start with one idea,...

I've finally settled in the SDT office in this amazing 2 year post but have realised there are so many exciting opportunities and things I could be doing that I decided I had to develop a plan to at...