Tradamis Who we are

Who we are

Trustees

Trustees
Jodie Robson

Penny Brookman

Elaine Palling

Jerry West

Director

Mike Ruff

Honorary Treasurer

Steering Committee

Mike Ruff

Anne Garrison

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Charity information

Map of teaching locations

Practitioners

Mike Ruff

Penny Brookman

Anne Garrison

Shirley Dixon

Alice Cade

Lucy Duff

Theresa Brockway

Chris Goodwin

Elaine Paling

Alison Rowley

Penny Pinder

Diana Campbell Jewitt

Penny Brookman L.I.S.T.D.Dip, MA.PA, PGCE. has, for more than thirty years, taught and performed a broad range of dance styles. In addition to her professional Ballet and Theatre dance qualifications she holds an MA in Performing Arts and has worked extensively with T.A.P.S, as a teacher and performer in multi-cultural and inter-disciplinary projects and also with Kintbury Morris, Reading Cloggies, Tanglefoot, and ISIS clog and step dancers. She has taken Morris and traditional dance around the world, including Europe, America and Japan, as Foreman of Kintbury Morris, as well as appearing on the BBC programme of Folk dance for schools, and in venues as diverse as the New Forest show, and the Festival Hall.

Penny has worked as an artist in residence, and taught children with learning and behavioural difficulties, as well as hearing impaired and physically challenged students, including work for Mencap.

Penny has current experience of teaching a range of Gcse, AS/A2, and Btec performance courses, as well as running a traditional mayday event for more than twenty five years, and has taught all ages from 3yrs to 90yrs!

Jerry West has been involved with traditional music and dance (largely through the Morris) since foolishly expressing an interest at University. In a varied Morris career he has danced with top flight teams in most of the major genres and currently performs with Berkshire Bedlam, Seven Champions and (as musician) with Windsor Morris. In unguarded moments, Jerry will also admit to enjoying local social and not-so-local 'Playford' dances.

Jerry has long been interested in the teaching of dance and the notations and literature that support this. Professionally Jerry is a tutor for the Open University and also for a small private organisation teaching management-related qualifications. A Chartered Company Secretary, Jerry has been a Trustee (and Chair) of the EFDSS and has been a charity trustee with Young Enterprise (inspiring young people through business experiences) since 2006.