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Teachers/Leaders ![]() Joanne Duff(teacher)
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![]() Anna Gillespie(musician/teacher)
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Pernille Charrington(assistant teacher/facilitator)
Pernille completed her professional dance training in Contemporary Dance and Classical Ballet, Historical Dance and Dalcroze Eurythmics. She then danced with English Dance Theatre, directed by Ross Mckim. Pernille and Anthony Van Laast founded the Peggy Hawkins Scholarship Fund at The Place in 2011 for students at London Contemporary Dance School.Pernille is now concentrating on teaching Ballet for adults and Music and Movement within Care Centres for older people and special needs. Pernille facilitates within the Dance for Parkinson's programme. In 2014 Pernille joined Musical Moving and facilitates dance classes in Wimbledon Many thanks to the following team members who have given their talent, energy and generous suppport to us over the past 10 years. Amanda Fogg (guest teacher) Amanda Fogg is a dance and movement practitioner working primarily with older people and those with Parkinson's. She is a founder member of the Dance for Parkinson's Network UK. In 2011 she was awarded an Arts Council grant to deliver Innate, a project exploring ways in which live music may help initiate movement and “flow” and facilitate artistic and creative responses in class participants who have Parkinson's. After a performing career and many years running a ballet school in Dorset, Amanda's work evolved into the wider community dance field and for more than 12 years she has been running classes and workshops in Dorset and Somerset. In 2001 she was awarded a Winston Churchill Fellowship Travel Bursary to visit dance and older people's projects in America. In 2007 she received an Arts Council Grant to visit the Dance for Parkinson's outreach classes run by the Mark Morris Dance Group in New York. She has been running classes for people with Parkinson's for over 10 years and has run training sessions for practitioners regionally and nationally, including for the UK Foundation of Community Dance. In 2010 Amanda co-taught dance workshops with Musical Moving at the World Parkinson's Congress in Glasgow. She is currently a member of the Advisory Board for Life Circles, a dance project taking place across three counties in the south west. Amanda is a founding member of the Dance for Parkinson's Network UK.
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Marina Benini (teacher) Marina is one of the founder members of the Kentish Town, Musical Moving Dance for people with Parkinson’s group, together with Dr. Marion North and musician Anna Gillespie. Originally she trained as a dancer at the Laban Centre, where she developed her work in Laban Studies and choreography. Later, Marina trained as a Dance Movement Psychotherapist at Goldsmiths, University of London, where she now lectures in movement observation and improvisation. She is currently continuing her professional development by training in Integrative Bodywork and Somatic Therapy, as well as furthering her studies in the Kestenberg Movement Profile (KMP) and Movement Psychodiagnostic Inventory (MPI).
Guest Teachers: David Leventhal Lauren Potter Daphne Cushnie Danielle Jones Amanda Fogg Sophia Hulbert Aimee Smith Trustees: Toby Beazley, Chair Former Executive Director, Dance Umbrella Member of Advisory Board, Dance for PD (Mark Morris Dance Group/Brooklyn Parkinson’s Group) Pippa Cobbing, Secretary primarySTEPS Programme Manager, The Royal Ballet School Alison Leake Parkinson's Specialist Nurse, St George's Hospital Volunteers: Claire Soulal Patricia Freeman Student Assistants join the class by arrangement with their institution.
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