People

Rosie Heafford

Rosie Heafford is Co-Director and founder of Second Hand Dance, established in 2013. She's an award-winning choreographer, with over 15 years' experience across dance, performance, and participatory arts. Her live performance and digital work for children and adults is shaped by her lived experience as a disabled artist and parent-carer.  

A graduate of Trinity Laban and Goldsmiths, Rosie has built a national and international profile, presenting work in community spaces to major theatres such as Sadler’s Wells, as well as festivals across Europe, Asia, and North America. Her practice centres collaboration, co‑creation, and access, alongside mentoring and sector development.

Tandem Works: is award winning Independent Producer Claire Summerfield. We support companies/artists developing and presenting performance-based work; from one person shows to site specific multi-disciplinary productions to and international tours.

Each partnership responds to the needs of the artist/company and may include artistic and organisational strategy development, project design, partnership development and mentoring. Our portfolio includes: Mars.tarrab ROLLER (The Barbican), Tom Dale Company (I Infinite, Cabin Fever, Refugees of the Septic Heart, Digitopia), 30 Bird (JUNCTURES, Plastic, Poland 3 Iran 2, Majnoun) and Michael Pinchbeck (The Beginning),

In 2017 Claire secured Arts Council National Portfolio Organisation status for Tom Dale Company. Tandem Works has acted as Executive Producer for Second Hand Dance since 2015.

Joanna Morley

Joanna Morley is the General Manager at Second Hand Dance, bringing a wealth of experience in inclusive and accessible arts for young audiences. Previously Administrator at Oily Cart and Tours Coordinator for Daryl & Co, she has also worked as a freelance producer supporting disabled artists and accessible projects across multiple artforms.

Lucy Godfrey

Cath leads on the artistic direction of South East Dance and works alongside Rachel Gibson, the Executive Director to ensure the effective management and leadership of South East Dance. 

Originally from Australia, Cath’s background is in dance, having been a dancer at Rambert Dance Company and Siobhan Davies amongst others. Cath also taught dance internationally, before moving into producing, mentoring and management. She has curated, written about and choreographed dance during her 40-year career. 

Cath has been on many arts charity boards including Pavilion Dance South West and Brighton Digital Festival, and was Chair of the Merlin Theatre in Frome. 

Dance is still a huge part of Cath’s life, taking regular dance and Pilates classes. She has been known to do the odd yoga session and to get creative in her own silent disco on her allotment too. 
 
How we are working together: 
Cath is on Second Hand Dance’s steering group. 

Favourite Second Hand Dance show:

Grass – such a thoughtful, beautiful, imaginative work for the under 5s. 
 

Louise Wildish

Louise Wildish is a senior arts leader, producer, director, writer, arts consultant, EDI specialist, mentor and artist working across theatre, dance and film. Louise’s work is embedded in social justice and inclusion and she has worked across the arts both as an artist and in senior leadership roles independently and with organisations for over 30 years.

Rachna Joshi

Rachna Joshi is a North London teacher specialising in early childhood education for children and families from birth to five. Since completing her MA in Early Childhood Studies in 2020, her interests have focused on children’s identity development through relationships, interaction through movement and dance, and embedding anti-racist, socially just practice in education.

She shares her ideas through writing, keynotes, and presentations, and is as a trustee for Second Hand Dance and a member of the Froebel Trust’s education and research committee. As a freelance consultant, she supports settings to promote play, autonomy, and children’s right to education and joy.