Dance Mama In Conversation Series 3 - Ep 8 Kristina Alleyne with DanceEast

Join Dance Mama Founder/CEO, Lucy McCrudden, for a glimmer of conversation with Co-Artistic Director of Alleyne Dance, Kristina Alleyne, after she led one of our online workshops for professional dancing parents with DanceEast. Kristina speaks about the support network she is modelling and creating with the company bringing out the brilliant possibilities there can be for parents in dance. This, our third podcast series holds tantalising snippets of the conversations we had on Dance Mama Live Back On The Road - season 2 of our professional development programme, specially made for and about parents in dance supported by Arts Council England.

It followed our first Dance Mama Live 2021-22 which was entirely delivered online and is available to engage in for free when you sign up to our site. Season 2 was our post-pandemic follow-up, where we were able to go ‘back on the road’ and get out and about in person as well as virtually to 10 national dance organisations across the UK.

This third podcast series will enable you to get a glimpse of what we got up to speaking to great British dance artists and makers including; Lizzie Klotz, Siobhan Hayes, Folk Dance Remixed, Sally Knight -Artistic Director of  CScape Dance, Melody Sinclair - Associate Choreographer of Six The Musical, Company Chameleon, Eleesha Drennan, Alleyne Dance, Anna Watkins and York Dance Studio.

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You can also see series 1 and 2 of our podcast in video format on our YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC2k1Bc-mnit69sZcOLOmTaw- part of our collection of over 70 stories.

Visit www.dancemama.org for all the info to find out how you can get involved and how we help parents in dance move their worlds.

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The conversation in this episode was recorded in June 2023 as part of Dance Mama Live Back On The Road supported by Arts Council England.

It features reflections on the project from participants who took part in the project when it toured to Sadler’s Wells. The full edit of this can be viewed in our film by Flett Films and Tambrisk Pictures here: https://youtu.be/zsUd-N5lNn8 .