Marcia Edwards
Mon 26th Feb 2024, 10:30am
About The Class
Marcia will draw on her experiences to share a class that focuses on strength, stamina and flexibility. Using a combination of Graham and Horton Techniques alongside her own style to focus on fundamentals, help dancers feel their bodies whilst they dance and provide an energising mix of floor work, standing exercises and travelling to start your day!
The studio at FABRIC will be accessible from 10 am for participants to use for self-warm-up, to get familiar with the space and/or to mingle.
Booking
Pay-as-you-go– Online booking will close 15 minutes after the start time. Please ensure all personal information is entered correctly when booking your class. Tickets can also be brought by card at reception, places are subject to availability.
Membership– You will not need to pre-book your class, just register at the reception 10 minutes before your chosen class.
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 and Romania. She has worked with choreographers including Nevile Campbell, Janice Garret, Jamie Watton, Gail Parmel, Barwen Tavaziva, Akiko Kitamura, Vinvent Mantsoe and Robert Moses.
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 teaches across the Midlands, including pro classes for Birmingham Dance Network/DanceXchange and for ACE dance and music, 2 Faced Dance and Flexus Dance Collective.
She has her own professional dance company, ME Dance whose current works include Mania, Historical Ties, Oceans of Independence and Black Country Stories; and ME Youth and Graduate Performance Company.
Her 20-plus years of experience has given her extensive connections with schools, colleges and universities, as well as international institutions such as Graham of Europe, Conception Dance Company (Grenada), NOYAM (Ghana) and Dida Dance Company (Norway).
In 2019, 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.
