2FD STORY
Born from a vision to break boundaries and defy expectations, 2Faced Dance Company began as a bold experiment in a small town — and grew into one of the UK’s leading contemporary dance companies.
Founded in Hereford in 1999 by Artistic Director Tamsin Fitzgerald, the company has always stood for more than just movement. We stand for possibility.
Rooted in raw physicality, powerful storytelling, and inclusive practice, 2Faced Dance exists to challenge perceptions, amplify unheard voices, and open doors through dance.
Our journey has taken us from street corners to international stages, from youth centres to global festivals — always with the same mission: to use dance as a force for change.
At the heart of everything we do is people. From our groundbreaking work with young male dancers to our commitment to creative health, wellbeing, and community connection, we believe dance belongs to everyone. We create opportunities for all to move, grow, and thrive — whether through performance, participation, or just showing up and being seen.
Our home in Hereford is more than a studio; it’s a creative engine room. Here, we nurture new ideas, support artists, and bring communities together through residencies, workshops, and performances that spark connection and conversation.
2Faced Dance Company is fearless, inclusive, and always evolving. We are not just creating dance — we are creating impact, opportunity, and a future where everyone can take centre stage.
TRUSTEES
Alex Green // Chair
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Alex is currently Director of Operations & Resources for Severn Arts in Worcester and is a passionate enabler of creativity and culture who loves a spreadsheet! Always preferring to be behind the scenes, Alex started off as a theatre lighting technician. After a spell crewing hotel narrowboat pairs and then trialing a career in audit, he eventually moved into Theatre Front of House and Operations. He spent a number of years as General Manager at The Courtyard Centre for the Arts in Hereford before moving to Yeovil as Operations Manager for the Octagon Theatre and Westland’s Entertainment Venue in 2018. He took up his current role in December 2021. When not involved in culture and music, Alex can usually be found messing about on the rivers and canals of the Midlands aboard his narrowboat, Moonshine.
Amy Dalton-Hardy // Trustee
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Amy Dalton-Hardy is a Warwick-based Freelance Arts Consultant with over 18 years’ experience across the UK cultural sector, specialising in strategy, development, engagement, and freelance advocacy. She brings a values-led, pragmatic approach to organisational change, fundraising, and community-rooted delivery, with a strong track record in consultation, programme design as well as place and people-based cultural strategy. Amy is Co-Director of Propel Dance CIC; the UK’s only professional wheelchair dance company - and has helped clients raise over £3.5 million since 2020. Her clients include individual creatives, universities, local authorities and NPOs, and her work is grounded in lived experience of working-class access barriers and a commitment to more inclusive futures.
Clare Purcell // Trustee
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Clare is a highly experienced arts professional with over 30 years working in the rural creative-cultural sector. She spent a decade as Artist Manager at the internationally renowned Hay Festival, followed by ten years as Executive Director of Meadow Arts - a leading contemporary visual arts charity that uses landscape and place to promote ideas, engage communities, and take high-quality art beyond traditional gallery spaces.
Clare currently serves as Coordinator of Herefordshire Cultural Partnership, an independent, cross-sector cultural consortium that leads on cultural policy and strategy to ensure culture is valued and represented at all levels.
Much of Clare’s work has focused on rural community engagement, using art and culture as tools to spark dialogue on contemporary issues, drive economic growth, strengthen social cohesion, and help to make beautiful rural areas more creatively vibrant places to live, work, and visit.
Charlotte Barltrop // Trustee
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Born into a traditional circus family, Charlotte travelled the world as a trapeze artist and high wire walker before training as an actor. Their unique background led to roles such as the trapeze artist in Surviving Picasso and Mustardseed the aerial fairy in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, as well as performances in international circus productions. Now based in Herefordshire,Charlotte continues to blend physical artistry with theatrical storytelling, whilst running her Online Business Management company.
Georgia Shire // Trustee
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Georgia Shire had been a trustee of 2Faced Dance Company since January 2024 and currently heads the Children & Young People department at The Roses Theatre in Tewkesbury. A Rambert School graduate (2018) with an MA in Dance Producing & Management from London Studio Centre (2022), she has worked with VOXED Dance Theatre, AVA Dance Company and AWA DANCE in producing and research roles.
At The Roses, Georgia leads flagship programmes including Roses Young Creatives and Infinite Creatives, a free creative programme for neurodivergent and learning-disabled young people. With a strong belief in partnership working and collaboration, Georgia works closely with arts organisations, education providers and community networks across Gloucestershire to develop high quality projects across the county.
Passionate about engaging young people in the arts and championing inclusive opportunities, Georgia can often be found supporting the next generation - both at work and while taking her young son to dance lessons."
Elaine Knight // Trustee
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Elaine brings over four decades of experience in arts development, with a passion for ensuring that people in rural communities have equal access to high-quality creative opportunities. Her career has focused on breaking down barriers to participation.
She has led a number of major place-based cultural programmes, including a Creative People and Places Programme in Lincolnshire. Elaine has also played a key role in developing Worcester’s cultural place making initiatives, project managing both the Cultural Development Fund and Place Partnership Projects.
As a trustee, Elaine draws on her extensive experience in strategic planning and partnership development to support the organisation.
Rosie Cook // Trustee
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Rosie is an entrepreneur who is passionate about the arts. Having started her career in Strategy Consulting, Rosie entered the world of start-ups before running her own award-winning, sustainable and size inclusive swimwear brand for seven years. Rosie joined the Board of 2Faced Dance in January 2025 as part of a career move in which she seeks to bring her entrepreneurial and commercial skill set to support arts organisations in an increasingly challenging landscape. Rosie is based in North London, she sings, reads, swims outside year round and loves watching dance.
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Your support can help transform lives through dance. As a registered arts charity, we rely on the generosity of people like you to allow artists to create their best work and to ensure that everyone, regardless of age, background, or circumstances can experience the joy that dance offers.