Marcia Edwards
Marcia is a teacher and choreographer based in the West Midlands. She has a BA Hons from Northern School of Contemporary Dance and a PTTLS qualification. After graduating she danced with ACE Dance and Music, State of Emergency and Dida Dance Norway and toured commercially in Paris, Switzerland, San Tropez and Romania. She has worked with choreographers such as Nevile Campbell, Janice Garret, Jamie Watton, Gail Parmel MBE, Barwen Tavaziva, Akiko Kitamura, Vinvent Mantsoe, Robert Moses and Kevin Finnan MBE.
She has taught in numerous educational establishments, up to the university level, led Big Dance Birmingham and worked in Great Britain’s National School Games. She continues to teach across the Midlands for Brum Pro Class, FABRIC, ACE dance and music ad Elmhurst Ballet School, and has delivered classes for 2 Faced Dance and Flexus Dance Collective.
She has run her own professional dance company, ME Dance and ME Dance Youth Graduates. Her experience has given her extensive connections with schools, colleges and universities as well as international institutions such as Graham of Europe, Conception Dance Company (Granada) Noyam African Dance Institute (Ghana) and Dida Dance Company (Norway).
Marcia was Rehearsal Director for ACE Dance and Music, for a premiere of their double bill ‘Skin Re:Imagined’, having performed in the original cast.
She has produced films called ‘Disconnect And Distortion’ for her professional company working with composer Frans Bak from Denmark. Marcia has also made short films Overload, Beauty, Fire, Power Imprint and Women of the Water which was selected for U.Dance 2022 for her Youth Graduate Performance Company. Marcia showed Chain Stories as part of the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games and has completed library tours with ME Youth Graduates and ME Professional company of her previous work A Kiss Goodbye and current work Bella in partnership with Sandwell Libraries and Archives. Working in partnership with Canal and River Trust, Highways England and Sandwell Council Marcia has just completed a site specific work called the Junction which was performed under the iconic structure of Birmingham’s Spaghetti Junction which has been featured on ITV news and BBCWM radio.
