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Jazz Dance Collective: Launch Event

Jazz Dance Collective - Launch Event 14 Jan 2024

The Jazz Dance Collective is an organisation that is making JAZZ HISTORY the foundation of its practice. Jazz was created by African Americans, emerging at a period to liberate the people from the pain and inequality of the New World. It was born out of oppression but gave great freedom to the wider African diaspora, working through pain and hardship using skill and joy. Jazz enriches and frees the soul.

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Buddy Bradley: PhD Research with LAHP funding

Outside view of the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama

News about Annette’s AHRC-LAHP scholarship for PhD research on Buddy Bradley at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama from October 2023.

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Contextualising Buddy Bradley’s work in British Film

Online Talk Series - photo pf Buddy Bradley teaching in his studio

Annette Walker presents a follow up to her initial March 2021 presentation about a forgotten choreographer of British musical stage and screen, Buddy Bradley.

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Changing Times Tap Dance Initiative (2022-2023)

MOVE IT 2023 Call and Response Tap Dance Workshop group photo with teacher Annette Walker

Funding announcement for Annette Walker’s Tap Dance Programme, Autumn 2022

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Rhythm Tap Tales – Chapter 1: Remembering bebop hoofer Will Gaines

Poster: Annette Walker's Rhythm Tap Tales - Chapter 1: Remembering bebop hoofer Will Gaines

Annette’s new solo tap show debuts at the Albany on 6 July 2023! Free-flowing storytelling about Will Gaines with improvised tap dancing by Annette accompanied by Alex Ho on piano, followed by a tap jam with live music by The Rhythmaticians.

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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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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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Swing Sister Swing

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

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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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Review of Jazz in England

appg - all party parliamentary group

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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