✨ ABOUT TORI ✨

Tori Drew is a highly experienced freelance dance artist and educator with over 20 years of inspiring people through movement. She has taught extensively across the West Midlands, working with a wide range of communities and in diverse settings.

An award-nominated Dance Artist and Education Leader, Tori has extensive experience delivering high-quality dance across education, community, and health sectors. She specialises in inclusive and intergenerational practice, with a broad portfolio spanning Early Years, Primary and Secondary education, as well as work with older adults and participants with Parkinson’s, dementia, rheumatoid arthritis, and those at risk of falls.

Tori has an impressive academic background, holding a Dance and Education degree from the University of Roehampton, a postgraduate qualification in Dance in the Community from Trinity Laban, a PGCE with QTS from the Royal Academy of Dance, and an MSc in Dance Science from the University of Wolverhampton.

She is a 2026 recipient of an Arts Council England National Lottery Project Grant, supporting an intergenerational project in Dudley and Walsall. She was also shortlisted for the Fearless Freelancer Award 2024 by Birmingham Arts School.

Tori is passionate about making dance accessible, empowering, and transformative for people of all ages and abilities.