A head of this year's Expo at Old Trafford on 10 October 2019, I had a lovely chat with Nikki Johnson, founder of Noodle Performance Arts which offers training for young people from pre-school to teenage years in and around Sheffield and Cheshire.
‘We came as delegates in 2017,’ Johnson explains, ‘I brought one of my franchisees and some staff members to see what it was all about. We’re a new franchise and were looking for franchisees, and I just thought it would be an excellent place for us to come and find the right kind of people.’
Johnson and her team attended sessions including one from Trestle on masks and musical theatre, of which she says ‘we got some great ideas, and came back with some masks which we’ve never used in drama before. It was really good.’ They also attended a session on early years music and loved the interactive nature of it, sparking lots of inspiration.
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