Cheney School/The Rumble Museum are looking for a dancer to run a dance ‘making’ session at their conference on Tuesday 11th March 2025 at Cheney School. The conference will explore creativity from a range of angles, and will involve students working with practitioners to create something themselves by the end of the event to show to others. The aim of the day is to take students outside of the usual trammels of the curriculum to experience the satisfaction of learning a new skill, and then crafting something to display to others. Cheney Technical School was founded by John Brookes who was a craftsman, and so the idea of the conference is also to celebrate this legacy.
This is part of The Rumble Museum at Cheney – a unique project in that it is the first fully accredited museum spread across the site of a busy, diverse and vibrant state school. Its collection ranges from stone age tools to modern day brain surgery instruments, with many things in between.
Cheney School/The Rumble Museum would be delighted to hear from dance artists who are able to and interested in working with a small group of students during the day itself to create a dance.
The format of the day would be as follows:
The day is structured with an opening talk on creativity, and then the students are split into groups, between 9 and 1.30pm to work with their group leaders on learning about and then making something (with breaks at 11 – 11.30 for lunch). The students would then have a break for lunch at 1.30 to 2pm, and then show to other students and community visitors what they had made. You would therefore be with a group of about 15 students between 9am and 1.30pm to be introduced to a particular skill and then create something. It is quite a short timeframe but we hope that students will be able to craft something they feel proud to have created, which they can then show to people between 2 and 3pm.
The students in each group will be aged 16 – 17. Cheney is demographically very diverse, and the groups will be of mixed ability.
We can pay £300 plus travel costs to dance artists interested in being part of this event.
Please contact Dr Lorna Robinson on lro@cheneyschool.org if you would like to take part.
