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Rhythm Tap Workshop Monthly

Pineapple Rhythm Tap Workshop April-July 2023

The Rhythm Tap Monthly Workshop is a series brought to you by the Annette Walker Tap Dance Programme, for learning tap dance through a foundation of jazz and rhythm with an understanding and appreciation of its historical context and lineage.

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Posted in All News & Announcements, Dance Classes, Education & Teaching, Events, Projects, Tap dance, Upcoming

Pizza and Pitches Party

I won the Albany’s Pitches and Pizza Party £1000 for my Rhythm Tap Tales project pitch.

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Posted in All News & Announcements, Awarded Funding & Scholarships, Events, Past, Projects, Tap dance

Swing Sister Swing

Music Director for Swing Sister Swing’s Spring 2022 theatre tour

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Posted in All News & Announcements, Events, Piano, Projects, Theatre, Film & TV, Upcoming

Feel That Rhythm

In the autumn of 2020, I worked with Swing Sister Swing and Young Music Makers on Feel That Rhythm, an exciting jazz dance and music project commemorating the 75th anniversary of the end of the Second World War.

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Posted in All News & Announcements, Education & Teaching, Events, Other Workshops, Past, Projects, Tap dance

PhD in Performing Arts with a Studentship

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Now begins 3 years of doctoral research in performing arts with a studentship from the University of Wolverhampton as part of the Black History of British Musical Theatre project led by Dr Sarah Whitfield with Sean Mayes

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Posted in All News & Announcements, Awarded Funding & Scholarships, Phd: Buddy Bradley, Research & Publications, Theatre, Film & TV

Review of Jazz in England

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I’m pleased to announce that I’m on the Advisory Panel for the Review of Jazz in England commissioned by the All Party Parliamentary Jazz Appreciation Group (APPJAG).

The Review has five questionnaires for jazz musicians, professionals in the jazz industry or jazz fans to be completed by midnight Monday 28 June 2021.

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Tap Dance Research Network UK (TDRN UK)

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“TDRN UK provides a space for researchers, artists, academics, and practitioners to share knowledge, information, and research around Tap Dance.”

I joined the steering committee from its initial formation in May 2019.

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The Rezidents

The Rezidents

The Rezidents is led by bassist and composer Gary Crosby, co-founder of the jazz development organisation Tomorrow’s Warriors.

Professional musicians who have a link to Tomorrow’s Warriors reconnect and make music together in a relaxed and collaborative way.

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Posted in All News & Announcements, Events, Past, Professional development, Projects, Tap dance

Associate Artist at ACA Residency 169

GoFundMe Associate Artist ACA Residency 169, Florida, USA

Support Annette Walker’s continuing professional development project. She’s been accepted as an Associate Artist at Atlantic Center for the Arts’s Residency 169 and requires further financial assistance towards the costs.

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Posted in ACA Residency 169, All News & Announcements, Lisa Ullmann Travelling Scholarship Fund, Tap dance

Piano lessons: I-Play Music Centre

I-Play Music

From September 2016 I’ll be starting my first teaching piano/keyboard lessons at I-Play Music centre in Surrey. After many early years of classical piano study and later years studying and playing jazz, pop, gospel and other styles I’m excited to be able to pass on and share my growing knowledge and experience to others.

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Posted in All News & Announcements, Education & Teaching, Events, Music Classes, Past, Piano

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