As a freelance dance artist, educator, writer and project coordinator, since graduating Charlotte has worked both nationally and internationally for large arts organisations and independent companies as well as running her own projects.

Working as a portfolio artist, Charlotte relishes the opportunity to work flexibly, with diverse groups of people that changes on a weekly basis.

Education work
Charlotte’s practice spans most areas of dance provision within the UK having delivered on all levels in education from children’s centres/foundation stages, through primary and high school provision to guest lecturing on FE and HE courses. Outside of education, community practice, CAT schemes and working with dancers with learning & physical disabilities is the backbone of her delivery. Although she enjoys the opportunity to work with dancers of all ages and abilities, early years and primary age dance is her niche. In recent years she has become a lead artist for the NSCD partnership with OFSTED outstanding Hillcrest Academy, running weekly afterschool provision, summer schools and embedding dance within the national curriculum through teacher CPD and developing methods of using dance to teach STEM.

Creative Work
As a choreographer Charlotte has received independent commissions from the Danish Talent Academy, Assembly House Leeds and NSCD Certificate in Higher Education course, as well as regularly creating on her community classes for the Dance Studio Leeds and LB Academy. Her company ACCA is resident company at Slung Low, and partnered with Yorkshire Dance, The Dance Studio Leeds, ProDanceLeeds and Rural Arts. Previously commissioned by Ilkley Literature Festival, they have also won the Leeds Summer Group Show 2020, and received ACE funding for a R&D of Cautivas, a new project for 2021. They are currently collaborating with the award winning theatre company Barrel Organ to create a large scale community project and German company Vier-D for a cross borders collaboration between Leeds and Dortmund. The full length show of their original sketch Occupational Hazard premiered in December 2022 at Slung Low thanks to support by ACE.

Project Coordinating & Admin work
Charlotte has assisted organisations and individuals in person and remotely with the following:

– general administrative tasks
– programming & space booking
– liaising with artists, schools, colleges, organisations
– proofreading and editing
– copywriting for websites, print & newsletters
– graphic design
– social media content & scheduling
– video editing, voiceovers and image descriptions

Photo credits:
Top Left: Solomon Charles-Kelly
Top Middle: Mar Torrano
Top Right: Art Murton
Bottom Left: Carr Manor Community School
Bottom Middle: Scott Heleniak
Bottom Right: Rosemary Spencer

Performance work
Having worked both as a company dancer for an internationally touring rep company, and as a freelancer for independent projects, Charlotte has performed outside, in theatres, non-traditional performances spaces and for camera. Interdisciplinary work which combines theatre, comedy, clowning and audience interaction are her trademark.

Recent performance credits:

2024
– The Explorers – FRONTLINEdance

2023
– Intermission – Riptide
– The Parkway Project – Gary Clarke Company
– Femxle Spaces – Collaboration between ACCA & Vier D Performing Arts for Leeds 2023 and Dortmund Festival
– Ahead of the Wave – Space 2
– The Explorers – FRONTLINEdance (Stoke-on-Trent tour)

2022
– Million Dollar Mermaids – Yorkshire Life Aquatic (SIRF International Festival)
– The Dance We Made – Casson & Friends
– With Soundness of Heart – FRONTLINEdance
– The Explorers – FRONTLINEdance (Staffordshire Library Tour & Appetite’s BIG FEAST)
– Occupational Hazard – ACCA (Ripon Theatre Festival, Grassington International Theatre Festival, Yorkshire Dance’s No Dress Code)

2021
– Cap O’Rushes – UNIT (Dance Film commissioned by Arts Health South West)
– Cautivas – ACCA (ACE funded R&D)
– Occupational Hazard – ACCA (Open Source Arts, Slung Low)
– EVEolution – ACCA (Dance film commissioned by Ilkley Literature Festival)

2020
– ACCA Danst – ACCA (Dance Film shown at Flockfest & Winner of Leeds Summer Group Show)
– At Our Feet – Charlotte Arnold (Dance Film commissioned by Assembly House Leeds)

2019
– That Ribeiro Company R&D
– No Sex – Jason Mabana for Black Box Dance Company

2016 – 2018 for Black Box Dance Company
– Eva’s Dilemma excerpt by Tim Rushton (Danish Dance Theatre)
– No Sex by Jason Mabana (Akram Khan, Candoco)
– X Mythologies by Tina Tapgaard (Recoil Performance Group)
– Dødens Triumf for Savage Rose Anniversary Concerts
– Open Hearts by Marie Brolin Tani
– The Red Hour by Melody Putu and Alexander Michael
– 7even by Fotis Nikoloau
– Fear by Thomas Bentin and Stephanie Thomasen