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Resumé

Work
Experience

2023 - present

DYCP - Arts Council Funding

​ Magic Play - training for artists working with very young children, led by Magic Acorns​ Devising and performing artist for Nest, a two-week collaborative residency and performance events with Magic Acorns CIC, Great Yarmouth Contakids teacher training course, France, with Itay Yatuv Residency with clarinetist Charly Jolly and creative director Charlotte Arculus. We created our musical playscape for under-twos and their adults, Roly Poly. See film in my Projects page The Power of Connection: The art of therapeutic clowning course with Suzie Fergusson, The Why Not Institute, London Takeshi Matsumoto masterclass for artists making work with children through movement More than Adults in Waiting: Seminar with Dr. Charlotte Arculus, presenting findings from PhD thesis Our Creative Adventure: for dance artists who work in early years settings, online training with Liz Clark Mentorship with movement artist Louise Klarnett Delivering Contakids sessions at Fire in the Mountain festival Upcoming collaboration with Rachel Dean ​ The final phase of my DYCP will include a tour of the show Roly Poly to community venues and theatres in Suffolk, supported by Little Beats and Suffolk Libraries. I am currently seeking two nursery settings in Brighton to visit between Nov - Dec 2024 as I explore improvised movement and attunement with children during free play, with mentoring by Louise Klarnett.

​I was awarded the £12,000 Developing Your Creative Practice grant, for Devising art experiences with and for babies and toddlers

2021 - 2023

Creative projects and training

 

Feb 2023

  • Magic Online: training with Joy Haynes for artists making theatre with and for very young children

Mar 2023

  • Flying Seagull clown training 

Apr 2021

  • Devising and performing artist for In-Between Spaces, a collaborative residency and performance events with Magic Acorns CIC, Great Yarmouth

2017 - 2023

Early Years professional

 

After my studies I worked privately for families with children aged three and under. My knowledge of the EYFS, music and movement informed my child-centred approach to care and education through play. 

Education

2017 - 2018

Sussex University |
MA

Early Years Education, with EYTS

Musicality - attunement - play - nursery practice

'with and for children' - multi-modal - free flow

2013 - 2016

Falmouth School of Art |
BA(hons)

Fine Art

Live art - relational - participatory - playful

www.maddiebroadblog.weebly.com

Skills
& Expertise

  • improvisation & multi-modal creativity

  • person-centered performance approaches

  • ​creating socially-engaged work supporting positive change

  • Early Years arts, pedagogy, and research

  • live art devising and performance

  • lead vocalist, songwriter, backing vocalist

Phone

+44 7522458023

Follow Me

  • Instagram
  • Arts Council England 2023 - 24

  • Magic Acorns CIC affiliate artist

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