Todays #12daysofartists features the director of Dancing Shoes, Annie Lewis! Running for almost ten years, here at THIS Project we wanted to find out a little bit more about the dance group and how Annie is finding the festive holidays.
Name:
Annie Lewis
Location:
Wrexham
Favourite place, and why?
Plans Talgarth Country Club – go there every November for a chance to chill and relax and a chance to catch up on paperwork and updates that need to be done.
Favourite Reindeer?
Got to be Rudolf – he gets there in the end.
Describe your self in 5 words
Stubborn – Determined – Fair – Listener – Fighter (for what is right)
What is your current practice and what have you been up to?
Director Dancing Shoes Wrexham – a voluntary group for all ages and abilities ‘Every Child Matters’
How long has Dancing Shoes been around for?
Dancing Shoes has its 10th birthday in January 2016. I have been acting on stage since I was 15.
At what point in your life did you know you wanted to be a Artist/Poet/Musician?
Since first acted I wanted to go the stage school but was not the done thing ‘back in day’ so ended up training to be a teacher but dropped out and went into banking – ah well.
If you could buy your 10 year old self anything for Christmas what would it be?
Karaoke machine but they didn’t have them back then – had a folk guitar though which I taught myself to play
Is there anything in particular you are looking forward to this Christmas?
This Christmas. Spending time with family, getting my laptop back from the Curry’s hospital.
Have you got any plans for the New Year?
Planning and putting music together for this years show in July.
If you could get anything for Christmas this year what would it be?
New set of dance mirrors for the 3B studio as current ones were a big expensive mistake, a good video camera to record the shows myself, projector to use in classes, a laptop that won’t die on me …….. the list is endless.If you would like to contact Dancing Shoes then please feel free to follow them on Twitter or Facebook
More details on how to get involved with Dancing Shoes can be found on their Facebook page.
