Lorraine Le-Blanc Davis

Lorraine’s professional career spans 25 years in all aspects of the performance industry, including a decade touring internationally with the hit show STOMP! Lorraine is a founder member of JazzXchange, one of the UK’s most prominent Jazz Dance companies. She was lead with Bullies Ballerinas and an original member of Souls in Motion Dance Company (Anthony Van Laast/Claude Paul Henry/Stuart Arnold).

An experienced educator specialising in social cohesion/youth rehabilitation through dance, Lorraine teaches a variety of disciplines including Jazz, Tap, Matt Mattox, Body Percussion, Modern Dance, Commercial, Hip Hop/Street and Lindy Hop. She trained at London Studio Centre and will complete her PGCert in Learning and Teaching (Professional Practice) in early 2024.  

Dedicated to diversity and inclusion in education, Lorraine has made an essential contribution to the development of programmes and curricula that represent and serve our multicultural society. Her most recent appointment was that of Principal Lecturer for Contemporary Musical Theatre BA at ICTheatre Brighton and served as the Head of Opportunities and Inclusion where she was able to appoint global majority lecturers and developed outreach work to increase the global majority student body.

Lorraine is known as an innovator and skilled collaborator. In her post at ICTheatre Brighton, she was integral in the development of and made essential contributions to the current, diverse educationally inclusive Contemporary Musical Theatre Degree. Lorraine also collaborated in the re-design of the UK's first Hip Hop Artistry BA with JP Omari and she continues to work on the development of programmes that are truly inclusive and diverse and represent and serve the community.  

Express Yourself Boston USA is an award-winning arts programme for community youth, focusing on young people with mental and behavioral health issues. These young people get the chance every year to work on all aspects of the arts and perform at one of the biggest theatres in Boston, the Wang Center. 

Lorraine worked with and choreographed for this company from 2002 -2014 and was so inspired that she alone, with the consent of Paula Conrad and Stan Stickland (directors of EXYO Boston) adapted the USA model to createExpress Yourself London in 2012 which she is currently adapting to Week Day Arts. 

Lorraine has just taken up her new role as Arts Centre Programme Manager for BN1 Arts and wants to bring her wealth of knowledge and experience to create a diverse, inclusive arts centre for the whole community.