From September 2022 until June this year, I along with 7 other artist parent members of The Work Room have been part of Re-emerging. Re-emerging was a new peer support and working group created to discuss, dance, offload, question and share the complexities and (im)possibilities of balancing our caring responsibilities with our dance practices.

This process of coming together to be vulnerable and brave and motivated for change but also to feel exhausted with it all, has reinforced for me the significance of community – a solid reminder that in isolation, the ways through can be so very hard. In company, a realisation of the answers that are built in, those that you’ve gained so far, wisdom that’s there, but just buried under the enormous experience of parenting and when you just can’t get to it, others are there to give you their perspective and understanding.

It was this sense of solidarity and support we were benefiting from in our virtual meetings which led the group to create a resource for others.

On 5th June at Glasgow Women’s Library, we proudly and courageously launched our publication ‘A Choreography of Parenting’. The pack was developed collectively as a resource for others, for organisations and those who employ parent artists and for other artists who are or are becoming parents.

Since the launch event, the pack has been disturbed to organisations and artists across the UK, was featured in People Dancing’s Animated Magazine Summer 2023.

The pack has now been made into a digital resource, which can be accessed for free here https://www.theworkroom.org.uk/news/a-choreography-of-parenting-22062023