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Humans Move · HUMANS MOVE – ABOUT US

About Us BSL Video by Heather Williams

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Humans Move wants to join forces with people who are fighting for change and a more inclusive and peaceful future.

Our Vision

Connection:

Our company works with artists based in the UK and Ethiopia, encouraging exchanges and communication between both countries and their respective cultural richness. We view movement as a way for minds and bodies to unite through transformative experiences, creating opportunities for understanding and exploring new possibilities together.

Inclusivity

The very core of our vision being to bring people together to share experiences and histories, we work with disabled and non disabled people throughout our team and thrive to make our work accessible to audiences in creative ways.

Collaboration:

Humans Move’s work focuses on allowing people’s ideas to meet and evolve together towards a common goal. We want to encourage artists and participants to exchange skills and knowledge, through a supportive and non-hierarchical approach.

Activism:

Through Humans Move, we are creating a space where everybody can rewrite, reimagine, rearrange and reflect on personal and collective experiences and the world we live in – or wish to live in. Dance and movement form a practical opportunity for those ideas and aspirations to meet and grow, in the hope of generating change.

Meet the Team

Jessie Brett

Artistic director of Humans Move

Originally from Wales, choreographer Jessie Brett has been working in dance for 16 years as a dancer, teacher, choreographer, project manager and director

Lara Ward

Co-Director

Lara balances a collaborative performance and creative producing career with her commitment to enabling access to dance for adults with mental and physical health issues in her local community.

Heather Williams

Access Consultant and Company Manager

Heather has decades of experience in the third sector setting up and running various projects, and most recently in Welfare Rights, working with disabled, deaf, blind, young people, learning disabilities and mental health in Birmingham and Cardiff and has transferred those skills learnt to the creative sector.