Dancing and dance teaching is something I love doing and would like to do more of. Regular vigorous exercise has made a huge difference to my wellbeing, dance fitness doesn't feel like work; wish I'd discovered it much earlier in life. I hold a Level 2 Group Exercise to Music teaching qualification.
I created "Synthercise", a very nerdy open licenced dance fitness programme suitable for complete beginners which I've delivered at a couple of hacker camps - EMF in 2024 and WHY in 2025.
I'm a member of the dance group of The Edinburgh Samba School, performing with them at festivals, carnivals and galas.
I've led mass dances at the end of mass bike rides - for the InfraSisters and Porty Pride - the first one of these was featured on STV News after the event, and played at a recent Cycling UK seminar on organising mass rides.
Dancing is a wonderful escape from screen-based work, though through Synthercise I managed to connect it up to making tracker music and promotional videos on the tic80...