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DAVID MEAD

David Mead is an independent dance practitioner, presently studying for his PhD at the University of Surrey where he is researching the construction of creativity in dance education with specific reference to the Cloud Gate Dance School in Taiwan. 

In the UK he has led his own projects as well as teaching and choreographing in a variety of company, community and educational settings.  Chroreographies include The Chase and sections of The Winged Life (dx₃), Nisi Dominus and And then… (own projects), Glass (1914) (Bamboo Sheath Dancers, Taiwan), and Go! (Sri Warisan Dance Company, Singapore).

In Taiwan he has given guest lectures at Taipei National University of the Arts and National Taiwan University of the Arts, led a choreographic project for Bamboo Sheath Dancers and worked with Tai-Gu Tales Dance Theatre.

He writes for Dancing Times, Dance Europe; reviews for the Internet-based magazine Ballet-Dance; and is co-editor of and a regular contributor to Entrechat, the magazine of Birmingham Royal Ballet.