Signs of Spring

Amanda jointly leads the artistic direction of Green Croft Arts with Kit Haigh creating installations, and immersive experiences that engage people more deeply in a place or a space. Graduating from Northern School of Contemporary Dance in 1996, Amanda has had a career performing, teaching, choreographing and producing dance in the North East for Northern Stage, Dance City and Northern School Of Contemporary Dance. She has taught dance to all ages and from beginners to advanced, including students starting their own vocational dance training at Dance City’s Centre for Advanced Training programme, SEN children in hospital contexts and multi age community groups for carnival. She teaches yoga and is qualified in pregnancy and mother and baby yoga.

As joint Director of Green Croft Arts, Kit is a multi skilled musician, sound artist and photographer. His installation work ranges from generative sound art to immersive, interactive mixed media installations for clients including specialist hospitals and schools such as Columbia Grange, Washington and RHSC, Edinburgh. Other site-specific installations include public spaces, museums and festivals. He has performed extensively with folk artists Kathryn Tickell and Maddie Prior as well as rock and jazz groups. As a composer he has scored a variety of screen and stage based work including the EMMY and BAFTA winning C4 documentary The Boy Whose Skin Fell Off.