About Us

Max and Wayne Dance Theatre is a registered partnership and collaboration between Mary Davies and Lynnette King. We are making art through the lens of two mid career female dance artists. Our experience and combined methodology has an artistic and creative integrity derived from an open and inclusive approach.

Mary Davies

As a young dancer Mary travelled in Europe collaborating with artists of all disciplines, making work to perform in theatres and on location. She continued working for various theatre directors abroad while developing her own interest in choreography. Touring with companies The Cholmondeleys and Earthfall Dance Company Mary began showcasing her work and continues to make and share work with trained and untrained participants.

Commissions for large-scale projects devising movement with artists from all disciplines deepened her interest in movement directing. Now in her second year MA studies in movement directing and teaching for actors at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama Mary has worked with MA classical actors in Hamlet and is presently movement director for contemporary play Sticks and Stones, 3rd year students at CSSD. Running parallel to her studies she has received development funding from Arts Council England to support a period of research exploring screen dance.

For DanceEast she was artistic director for many years for performance companies; EncoreEast (over 55’s) and Dance Unlimited (trained dance practitioners and enthusiasts). As a qualified as a Postural Stability Instructor Mary delivers Dance To Health in the community as part of a falls prevention program and in 2019 completed a foundation course at Hertfordshire University in Arts Therapies and Wellbeing.

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Lynnette King

After graduating from Laban, Lynnette has been working in the field of dance for many years as a dance artist, choreographer and more recently a Movement Therapist. She is increasingly curious about where therapy meets performance and her evolving practice means that she is often at the interface of both. Lynnette’s teaching practice draws on many years in community dance.

The exploration of movement potential in every individual is key and she challenges herself in seeking out opportunities to explore movement in its broadest form whilst combining other art forms to influence her work. Lynnette has significant experience in leading both choreographic and therapeutic work with learning disabled artists. She currently offers creative movement classes, workshops and Movement Therapy at DanceEast, Ipswich and is Artistic Director of Spin Off Dance Company.

As an educator and choreographer she has worked on behalf of various companies including Random Dance, Suffolk Artlink, New Art Club, Wolfgang Stange – Amici Dance Company, Tom Hobden – UNIT and Gecko Theatre Company. Lynnette has co lead two large-scale intergenerational projects which were performed at the Jerwood DanceHouse, Ipswich in 2016/17. Lynnette is currently working with Spin Off and Stopgap in the creation of a dance film by Kate Flurrie to be shown at DanceEast in Summer 2018.

And as a way of nurturing her own reflective practice, she has set up an independent research and development project with a fellow dance artist Mary Davies, maxandwaynedancetheatre.com
They create a breadth of opportunities for community and inter-disciplinary artists.

Lynnette and Mary both performed in June 2019 in Rosemary Lee’s work, Circadian at First Light Festival, Lowestoft.

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