About BeatFeet?

Uniting Communities through Rhythm, Dance & Joy!  

BeatFeet have been providing energising drumming, dance and wellbeing workshops for over a decade throughout the UK. With a wealth of workshop leaders and event facilitators, who are all experts in their field, our workshops are guaranteed to engage, inspire and energise teams and learners. We work in many settings; including businesses, schools, Early Years Units, health care settings, festivals, and within community-based organisations, such as Girl Guides, Scouts and local councils.   

Each BeatFeet workshop and event is designed with three things in mind:

• How can we help people to connect with others through the power of music or dance?

• How can we encourage innate creativity to surface so that our workshop participants leave feeling refreshed and energised?

• How can we nurture the idea of collaboration through fostering a sense of community and connection?

Our clients know we always get these elements exactly right, and this is why we are invited back to work with many groups year after year.    

We are passionate about bringing groups of people together through group drumming and dance, and our wellbeing workshops complement any combination of genre too. All workshops include powerful elements of nurturing positive mental health and strengthening emotional resilience, two important areas needing attention in our busy and fast-paced world! In any workshop, we gradually move beyond the music or movement to bring out the ‘humanness’ of us all.  

About

Jude Winwood - Artistic Director

BeatFeet was founded by Artistic Director Jude Winwood, who spent most of her previous teaching career working in countries where community-inspired music making is well and truly at the joyful heart of culture and society. From having lived and worked on Reunion Island and on Mauritius in the Indian Ocean, to Ethiopia and The Gambia, and then over on Martinique and Dominica in The Caribbean, Jude has always been in awe of the many ways people all over the world use the positive power of music to bring their communities together. Music connects people and has the potential to remove any barriers to communicating and feeling a sense of community and belonging.

Jude is passionate about creating meaningful musical encounters through her work, and she instils this sentiment into BeatFeet’s workshop leaders, as they undertake training for their roles. 

An unforgettable highlight of Jude’s career was being selected by Kensington Palace to coordinate a special drumming workshop for The Princess of Wales in London. Jude was asked to facilitate a group drumming project for children and their families experiencing difficulties with mental health. She had the great opportunity to drum alongside Kate Middleton and to spread her passion for the wellbeing benefits of group music-making with others. It was an honour for Jude to lead this project and to welcome the Princess into the music-making arena.

Click here to view a clip of the Royal drumming workshop on YouTube. 

BeatFeet’s full range of educational workshops can be found in our Education section , also exciting options can be found in Corporate Experiences. Here’s a link straight to our Facebook page. to see what we’re currently up to. Most of our community workshops are free to attend thanks to Arts Council England, Sport England and The National Lottery Community Fund. We take great pride in collaborating with other community arts organisations in Nottingham and around the region, such as When Women Gather, LW Arts CIC, ChalleNGe Cultural Education Partnership, and Metronome.

BeatFeet Drumming, Dance & Wellbeing Workshops’ HQ is situated in Nottingham city centre in CommuniTree At Clarendon Chambers. From here, community workshops take place, such as Folk Belly Dance and Bhangra Dance, also Group Drumming for Women and various group rehearsals. To view spaces for hire at BeatFeet HQ, get in touch. The space hosts conferences and workshops, also meetings and photoshoots of all sizes.

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