Our Artistic Team
Roosa Leimu-Brown
ARTISTIC DIRECTOR
Roosa Leimu-Brown is a dance artist, yoga therapist and a movement educator with a PhD in biology. She has trained as a professional dancer with the Helsinki Dance Institute and the Swedish Royal Ballet school, and is specialized in leading dance for older people including those with Parkinson’s and dementia. She is an Associate Dance Artist at the English National Ballet co-leading their Dance for Parkinson’s classes in Oxford. She has worked as an Artist in Residence in the NHS Foundation Trust’s Creating with Care programme and as a dance artist in the Dance for Health program. She has lead dance and exercise sessions for the Age UK, Generation Games and Dance Creative. In addition to her basic dance training, Roosa has completed the Green Candle Dance Company’s diploma course in leading dance for older people and the Postural Stability Instructor training for falls prevention run by Later Life Training. Roosa has practiced and shared yoga for over 20 years and is a qualified Yoga Therapist. She extensive experience in creative work, performing and choreographing and has danced professionally with the Swedish Royal Ballet, Biserk Dance, and Justice in Motion. Roosa is also a research biologist with over 15-years of experience in academia as a researcher, lecturer, project manager and supervisor. She last worked as a lecturer at the University of Oxford.
Louisa Dalton
ARTISTIC DIRECTOR
Louisa Dalton is freelance dance artist who trained at Roehampton University and received a first class BA (Hons) in Dance. She is an Associate Artist at English National Ballet, co-leading their Dance for Parkinson’s programme in Oxford. She has also co-led the Dance for Parkinson’s programme in London and delivered workshops across the UK. In addition to this, Louisa co-leads seated and standing classes with MuMo Creative and has recently delivered ‘Online adventures in dancing with Parkinson’s’ for People Dancing. Louisa has worked with Green Candle Dance Company to support the delivery of dance classes for people with dementia, older people in the community as well as primary school students. She has taught RAD syllabus and contemporary classes at Turning Pointe Dance School and assisted with the Ballet Boyz Dance for Parkinson’s programme.
Nia Williams
MUSIC DIRECTOR
Nia Williams is a freelance musician and writer. Her work as a pianist/musical director takes her into opera, theatre, musical theatre and dance companies, schools and colleges, and she has accompanied singers and instrumentalists in genres ranging from art song, opera and ballet to musical theatre, jazz and ballads. As an English National Ballet Associate Artist, Nia co-leads Oxford’s Dance for Parkinson’s programme, and she delivers workshops combining music, movement and storytelling for all age groups and levels. These have included sessions for Creation Theatre, Live Nation Theatre, Flourish (bringing the arts to people with dementia) and Create with Care, as well as workshops on her own compositions with postgraduate students at the Royal Academy of Music. Nia founded and runs award-winning theatre company Three Chairs and a Hat, which made its Edinburgh Fringe debut in 2019 with her musical ‘Verity’. As well as several musicals, Nia has written seven novels, many short stories, lyrics and libretti.
Our Trustees
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Sophie Brough
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Irini Hatzimichali
Irini is an experienced project and events manager. She is trained in classical and contemporary dance and volunteered for the Dance for Parkinson’s classes in Oxford from 2017-2020. Currently she is serving as the chair of MuMo Creative.
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Jitka Fort
Jitka is passionate about music and exercise, and believes that music should be part of everyone’s experience, both young and old, because it brings cultural enrichment and joy into people’s lives. She has been a professional fundraiser, predominantly in the field of education. More recently, she has been running a charity supporting people living with dementia and Parkinson’s, witnessing at first hand the effect music and movement can have.
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Morten Kringelbach
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Béatrice Pasquier
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Jennifer Smith