Fridays | 10:30–11:30am
11 September – 16 October 2026 (6-week course)
Location: Copperdot Studio
1 The Street, Trowse, NR16 8SX
Price: £60 for the 6-week course
Drop-in sessions: £12 (subject to availability) and email directly to book.
10 Spots available
Take an hour just for you.
Each class begins with time to arrive, settle and reconnect with your body through gentle movement, rest and breath. From there, we'll gradually build into more energetic dancing, learning simple movement phrases, exploring improvisation and enjoying the freedom of moving together. You'll leave feeling grounded, uplifted, refreshed and perhaps just a little bit sweaty.
Moving Mums is a welcoming dance class for mothers in the early postnatal months. It's an opportunity to reconnect with yourself through movement, share the experience of dancing alongside your baby and other mums, and to be honest about the realities of early motherhood in a supportive, creative space.
Babies are welcome to join you on the dance floor, stay close by, feed, sleep, play or simply observe. You're free to respond to your baby's needs at any time, and you're equally welcome to come on your own if childcare is available. The space is designed to be flexible, relaxed and free from judgement.
We recommend joining the class after you've had your 6-week postnatal check and feel ready to return to gentle physical activity.
All levels – For true beginners to more advanced movers.
I am Emma Zangs, a Choreographer and Movement & Communication Coach.
My choreographic practice sits at the intersection of dance, clowning, and participatory performance. I create work through relational choreography, developing performances and experiences that emerge from encounters between people, stories, bodies, and play. Rather than beginning with movement alone, I begin with relationships—listening, collaborating, and creating alongside performers, participants, children, and communities.
Co-creation is central to my process. I work with people's lived experiences and invite children into the studio as creative collaborators, recognising their curiosity, imagination, and unique ways of understanding the world as vital to the artistic process. Clowning shapes my approach by embracing vulnerability, responsiveness, and the unexpected. I am interested in how humour, play, and moments of failure can open spaces for connection, empathy, and shared discovery.
This enquiry takes different forms across my work. 'Big Play' creates participatory play experiences for families, inviting children and adults to imagine, move, and create together. 'The Lost Nose' is a clown theatre performance for family audiences that celebrates absurdity and collective play, encouraging audiences to embrace curiosity and delight. 'The Kids Are Fine' explores post-natal depression through movement and clowning, using humour, projection mapping, live drumming and storytelling to illuminate an experience that is often hidden from view. My 'Forest Sketches' are glimpses of how the forest makes me move, highlighting the symbiosis our bodies have with nature. Together, these works reflect my belief that play is not the opposite of seriousness but a way of engaging with life's complexity.
Across my practice, I seek to create performances where audiences are not passive observers but active contributors to meaning. By weaving together choreography, clowning, and co-creation, I create work that values shared authorship, celebrates human complexity, and builds connection through play, care, and collective imagination.
Find out more about my work ‘Playtime’
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If you have any questions, please contact Emma – hello@emmazangs.com
Fridays | 10:30–11:30am
11 September – 16 October 2026 (6-week course)
Location: Copperdot Studio
1 The Street, Trowse, NR16 8SX
Price: £60 for the 6-week course
Drop-in sessions: £12 (subject to availability) and email directly to book.
10 Spots available
Take an hour just for you.
Each class begins with time to arrive, settle and reconnect with your body through gentle movement, rest and breath. From there, we'll gradually build into more energetic dancing, learning simple movement phrases, exploring improvisation and enjoying the freedom of moving together. You'll leave feeling grounded, uplifted, refreshed and perhaps just a little bit sweaty.
Moving Mums is a welcoming dance class for mothers in the early postnatal months. It's an opportunity to reconnect with yourself through movement, share the experience of dancing alongside your baby and other mums, and to be honest about the realities of early motherhood in a supportive, creative space.
Babies are welcome to join you on the dance floor, stay close by, feed, sleep, play or simply observe. You're free to respond to your baby's needs at any time, and you're equally welcome to come on your own if childcare is available. The space is designed to be flexible, relaxed and free from judgement.
We recommend joining the class after you've had your 6-week postnatal check and feel ready to return to gentle physical activity.
All levels – For true beginners to more advanced movers.
I am Emma Zangs, a Choreographer and Movement & Communication Coach.
My choreographic practice sits at the intersection of dance, clowning, and participatory performance. I create work through relational choreography, developing performances and experiences that emerge from encounters between people, stories, bodies, and play. Rather than beginning with movement alone, I begin with relationships—listening, collaborating, and creating alongside performers, participants, children, and communities.
Co-creation is central to my process. I work with people's lived experiences and invite children into the studio as creative collaborators, recognising their curiosity, imagination, and unique ways of understanding the world as vital to the artistic process. Clowning shapes my approach by embracing vulnerability, responsiveness, and the unexpected. I am interested in how humour, play, and moments of failure can open spaces for connection, empathy, and shared discovery.
This enquiry takes different forms across my work. 'Big Play' creates participatory play experiences for families, inviting children and adults to imagine, move, and create together. 'The Lost Nose' is a clown theatre performance for family audiences that celebrates absurdity and collective play, encouraging audiences to embrace curiosity and delight. 'The Kids Are Fine' explores post-natal depression through movement and clowning, using humour, projection mapping, live drumming and storytelling to illuminate an experience that is often hidden from view. My 'Forest Sketches' are glimpses of how the forest makes me move, highlighting the symbiosis our bodies have with nature. Together, these works reflect my belief that play is not the opposite of seriousness but a way of engaging with life's complexity.
Across my practice, I seek to create performances where audiences are not passive observers but active contributors to meaning. By weaving together choreography, clowning, and co-creation, I create work that values shared authorship, celebrates human complexity, and builds connection through play, care, and collective imagination.
Find out more about my work ‘Playtime’
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If you have any questions, please contact Emma – hello@emmazangs.com
