Teaching and collaborating

Helen regularly works with arts organisations to devise and deliver dance and movement based classes and projects.  Helen has a strong community arts practice and has developed particular skills in inclusive dance teaching and working with participants with and without disabilities. Helen loves working with a diverse range of participants, discovering how people move and dance together to explore creative ideas.  She blends contemporary dance technique, creative somatic movement and Yoga within her teaching.

Arts organisations that Helen regularly works with include, Open Arts, an organisation that provides arts opportunities for people with disabilities, and for who Helen is a core artist, working across many of their youth and adult programmes. She also regularly works with Brain Injury Matters, an organisation that provides opportunities to adults with acquired brain injuries, for whom Helen has developed live performance work as well as dance-film based productions. She also teaches for the Downs Syndrome Association, and was also an artist for Arts and Disability Forum, delivering movement workshops on their Arts & Biscuits programme, that worked with people living with Dementia.

Creative Audio Description

Through research and development for her own productions, Helen has developed a wealth of knowledge and understanding around creative and embedded audio description. This research is based on her own experience of the arts as someone who is severely partially sighted; as well as researching and consulting with other members of the blind and partially sighted community. She has developed embedded creative audio description for some of her productions, including, Touch, Hear, Feel and Inside The Speaker. Helen can also provide consultancy to companies and organisations who are interested in developing more creative approaches to audio description and access.

Mentoring

Helen has provided mentoring for a range of artists, particularly emerging disabled artists. This has included assisting artists in developing their own artistic practice.

If you are interested in working with Helen, please get in touch.