Three things, done properly.
I take on a handful of projects a year so each one gets my full attention. Here's where I'm most useful, and who tends to call.
The vision, held steady.
Some projects don't need more ideas. They need someone to choose the right ones and protect them through every meeting, rehearsal and budget conversation. That's direction: setting the artistic vision for a show, a season or a company, then keeping it intact from first concept to opening night.
Who calls: producers and companies who have the ambition and the pieces, but want a single creative head making the calls.
Classical to commercial, intimate to large-scale. Movement built for the brief and the bodies in the room, not pulled off a shelf.
Movement that earns its place.
Twenty-five years and several continents of choreography, for stage, screen, orchestral work, cabaret and large public events. I work fast and clearly, I cast and shape to the strengths in front of me, and I'm as comfortable with a company of professionals as a stage full of community performers.
Who calls: directors, music and theatre companies, festivals and event-makers who need choreography that lands.
From idea to season, run well.
Producing is where the art meets the spreadsheet, and both have to be right. Through TDP Productions I've produced live work across more than a decade of Fringe and cabaret: budgets, casts, venues, contracts, marketing and timelines, all the way through. I'll either run it for you or sit beside you while you learn to run it yourself.
Who calls: artists with a show and no producer, and organisations that need a steady pair of hands on a season.
Two companies and a toolkit.
The Dance Pad
My studio in St Peters: classes, training and a genuine community, for ages and abilities across the board.
thedancepad.comTDP Productions
The producing arm, and the company behind the Fringe and cabaret seasons and the wider production work.
tdpproductions.comThe Studio Owner's Toolkit
Templates of the systems I run my own studio on, for other dance school owners to use.
payhip.com/EmmaDawsonTell me what you're making.
A short note about the project, the timeline and the budget is plenty to start. I'll come back honestly about fit.