“Play is the only way the highest intelligence of humankind can unfold.”
— Joseph Chilton Pearce
The Bare Toed Dance Company CIC
Alongside teaching 5Rhythms® since 2001, I co-founded the Bare Toed Dance Company CIC with colleagues Lynn Campbell and Jo Templey. Our overlapping and complementary skills make Bare Toed unique. Lynn draws on experience as a special needs teacher, Dance Movement Psychotherapist, Active Birth, and Movement Medicine teacher. Jo incorporates skills from her early drama training and play-work, musical talents and massage training into her skill-set to bring a holistic, embodied focus on wellbeing. Specialising in creative movement and aerial dance in community and school settings, Bare Toed works with a variety of groups to help them connect to themselves and others in meaningful, joyful, and embodied ways.
Over the years we have, offered hundreds of workshops, classes and school staff trainings, performed at countless festivals and events (including a sell-out week at the Lyric, Hammersmith), and helped thousands of children experience the delight of hanging upside down. Many of the children we have taught aerial to have gone on to become professional performers and facilitators.
Currently we work with families, with elders in care homes, and with marginalised groups including excluded teenagers and children with special needs. We are seeking to expand our consultancy and professional development for schools and organisations wishing to lean into embodied wisdom to support healthier and more productive ways of working.
