Creative Response
My creative response is a collection of movement phrases that I have taught during lockdown for classes via Zoom as that has been the main thing I have physically engaged with over the last couple of months. The voice over is a combination of verbal phrases I have said during Zoom classes, answers from the participants and stream of consciousness about what I’ve been reflecting on during lockdown.
Report
To gather qualitative data for this role I conducted informal interviews with a variety of people aged 18-25 to gather information to form the questions as the basis for an online survey. I then distributed the online survey via the social media platform Instagram and reflected on my own lived experiences during lockdown. These lived experiences included self-reflection, conversations with artists, venues and organisations from the dance industry and through analysis of government guidance for the arts sector.
“The results have suggested that a positive future for the arts is possible with those outside the sector showing an interest in engaging with the arts more post lockdown.”
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Thomas is a contemporary dance artist from Oxford and the Artistic Director of Thomas Page Dances (TPD). During his final year of training at the Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance, he became a FreeSpace Artist of Studio Wayne McGregor and was nominated by Laban to be part of The Place’s Open Borders Project 2019. Thomas is currently an Associate Artist of The Old Fire Station Theatre, SPARK Artist in Residence at The Pegasus Theatre and Associate Artist Programme at Swindon Dance.
