A head shot of Karla smiling directly at the camera

Karla Jones

Freelance Dance ArtistEast Midlands, UK

You can listen to a podcast here recorded in conversation with visual artist Steph Sian Coley on 'Finding Your Mojo' to find out all about where my creative inspiration and practice originates and the sort of work I enjoy.You can scroll down to see more about the work I do and what I offer.

Legal compliances:
Insured through People Dancing
Registered on the DBS Update Service
First Aid Trained (Qualsafe)
Safeguarding Trained (NSPCC)
Music License through PPL/PRS

Current work

I've received a Developing Your Creative Practice Grant from Arts Council England to further develop my work with and for older dancers in the East Midlands entitled 'Generate' This work will take place at the end of 2024 and into 2025. I'm actively looking to make links with venues, programmers and facilitators at this time to deepen this research and trainingDuring this time I am continuing to work with
Movement for All and
Nottingham Movement Collective to embed older person's practice in the region.I am also facilitating the 'Let's Dance' project I've founded in Jigsaw Homes across Gedling borough and as part of Handmade Theatre's National Lottery Funded outreach project in care homes

I have also received funding from the Dancer's Career Development Fund and a bursary place from CALM Studios to undertake my 200 hour Yoga Teacher Training throughout 2025I am proud to be starting work with The Spark Arts, Leicester on their Small Wonders project and coordinating the AYUP art club in Alfreton, Derbyshire

Karla dancing in front of a stone wall

Past projects

* Early Years and Families Dance Practitioner for Talent 25, De Montfort University

* 1:1 Dance Interaction Facilitator working with looked after young people with PMLD across schools in Derbyshire

* Producer and Facilitator with Hubbub Theatre Company Derby

* Creative Facilitator for Platform Thirty1 Black Shale Creative Education Partnership and domestic abuse refuge programmes

* Dance Artist for Everybody Dance at Chesterfield Children's Festival with Junction Arts 2024 and 2025

Karla dancing in front of a stone wall

CONTACT ME

I'd love to hear from you!

I'm creatively interested in how art connects us to our humanity and movement as medicineI specialise in working with older adults, young people and adults with SEND as well as Early Years and FamiliesI strive for universal accessibility in everything I do and I'm always keen to hear from like-minded professionals or anyone with questions about my work.Images thanks to Dean Leivers and David Wilson Clarke

A dancer leaning sideways towards the camera outside in front of the entrance to a tunnel