Vision

Speedwell Dance will forge connections enabling us to make more childrens’ lives better through moments of creativity, connection and joy.

We will create new possibilities for the future of children’s theatre through developing new ways of making.

Our model of practice will be acknowledged and celebrated across the artistic community and with audiences.

Aims

Create top quality art experiences in settings which are accessible to wide ranging and diverse audiences

  • Develop artistic practice informed by practice as research methodologies

  • Create work opportunities and professional development for dancers and musicians with a core practice of improvisation

  • Build a sustainable company with a national reputation

  • Develop family audiences through extensive co-creation processes embedded in communities

Values

Playfulness and curiosity

Inclusivity and openness

Collaboration

Respect…          

  • for audiences and participants

  • for each other and collaborators

  • for the natural world

The Team

  • Rachel Dean

    Artistic Director

  • Rachel Birch / Moving Arts Management

    Producer

  • Tasha Glew

    Tour Manager (Mountain Witch)

  • Oliver Dover

    Composer & Artist (Music)

  • Zoe Katsilerou

    Songwriter & Artist (Music and Dance)

  • Aine Reynolds

    Artist (Dance)

  • Michael Bardon

    Artist (Music)

  • Joel Steadman

    Artist (Music)

  • Alana Middleton

    Artist (Music)

  • Georgina Buchanan

    Artist (Music)

  • Will Baldwin-Pask

    Marketing

  • Ruth Piggott

    Design

We have worked with

Arts Organisations

Arts Council England

Bradford Producing Hub

Chapel FM

Independent Dance

Interplay Theatre

Mind the Gap

Northern Opera Group

Northern School of Contemporary Dance

Pyramid of Arts

Rotherham Children’s Capital of Culture

Space 2

The Place

Yorkshire Dance

Schools & Nurseries

Anston Park Infants, Rotherham

Armley Park Primary

ArtsForms Leeds

Ashfield Primary School

Beechwood Primary School

Bracken Edge Primary School

Castle Hill School (SEN)

Dean Primary School

East Specialist Inclusive Learning Centre

Herringthorpe Infant School

High Greave Infants, Rotherham

Hillcrest Primary School

Little Owls Nurseries

Middleton Primary School

Middleton St Marys Primary School

Rawmarsh Rycliffe Primary School

Rockingham Junior & Infants

St Walburgas Primary School

Shilbottle Primary School

Stanningley Primary School

Wath Central Primary School

West Specialist Inclusive Learning Centre

Westroyd Primary School

Museums, Galleries & Heritage

Burton Agnes Hall and Gardens

Cannon Hall Museum

Hatfield House

Leeds Art Gallery

Leeds City Museum

National Railway Museum

RHS Harlow Carr

Sheffield Botanical Gardens

Wardown House, Museum & Gallery

Whitworth Art Gallery

Yorkshire Sculpture Park

Libraries

Bicester Library

Bradford Libraries

Explore York Libraries

Leeds Libraries

Macclesfield Library

Thimblemill Library

Community Organisations 

Chapeltown Community Nursery

Circus Leeds

Commoners Choir

Harehills Playgroup

Kentmere Tea and Tots

Meanwood Farm

St Vincents, Leeds

Shantona Womens Centre

Space2 Leeds

Theatres & Touring schemes

Applause

Armley People’s Theatre

Arts Alive

Barnsley Civic

Bishop Auckland Town Hall  

Black Country Touring

Cheshire Rural Touring

Creative Arts East

Full House Theatre

Half Moon Theatre

Haverhill Arts Centre

Highlights Rural Touring Scheme

Kirkgate Arts Out West

Leeds Playhouse

Library Presents

Lyric Hammersmith

National Rural Touring Forum

Newhampton Arts Centre

Royal Opera House

Rural Touring Dance Initiative

Seven Arts

Sheffield Theatres

Spot On Lancashire

Square Chapel Halifax

The Anstice, Telford

The Place

Theatre Hullabaloo

Theatre in the Mill