About
Skuffuffle
RHYTHM DANCE FROM THE WEST CORNWALL COAST
Skuffuffle are the rhythm dance partnership of Isobel Bloomfield and Deborah Edwards from St. Just in Penwith - West Cornwall UK.
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Isobel & Debs have danced together since 2016, performing Appalachian clog dancing with Shindig Cloggers, and as a tap dance duo.
Our Team
Isobel Bloomfield
MA
Deborah Edwards
MBBO AMNATD
Isobel Bloomfield is an Appalachian dancer, flat-footer and producer based in Cornwall, working on collaborative dance projects and events with communities at the heart. She has a first-class BA Honours in Dance from the University of Surrey, and is a recent graduate of the Choreomundus- Masters in Dance Knowledge, Practice and Heritage Erasmus Mundus Scholarship programme.
Isobel has experience in a variety of dance styles including Salsa, Lindy Hop, Contemporary Release, Ballet, Contemporary African and Bharatanatyam. She co-directed the student-led Actual Size Dance Company in the final year of her BA and received joint first prize in the GSA Choreography competition for her and fellow director Claudia Tonietto’s dance piece ‘The Montage’.
Isobel has experience in Arts Administration and Producing at South East Dance, is a qualified Arts Award Adviser and is currently receiving support from the Cultivator Graduate Start-Up Programme in her development as a freelance dance artist and producer in Cornwall. Rhythmic dance is Isobel’s first love after she started dancing with local Appalachian group Shindig Cloggers, and she believes it’s a wonderfully powerful style to immerse an audience in movement and sound.
Deborah Edwards began taking tap and ballet dancing classes with The Marnic School of Dance in Devon as a pre-schooler, and continued taking classes, performing in theatre shows, winning medals and passing exams into her late teens. Adding in a third discipline then known as 'modern' in the mid 80s allowed Deborah to explore new performance opportunities in duets and small groups. Deborah continued to pass exams with the British Ballet Organisation, and the National Association of Teachers of Dancing into the early 90s.
She currently runs 'Turn On The Tap', a weekly tap dance class for adult beginners in St. Just in Penwith. Her students did so well in their first year that they won their first ever dance competition, and have since performed their group routines in theatres and at festivals in west Cornwall ever since.
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Deborah has also been fortunate to take part in a number of theatrical productions, not only as a dancer, but also as a singer, with Cornwall based theatre company Wild Works Theatre, and at The Bristol Old Vic and The Kneehigh Asylum.
"Dance is a wonderful social phenomena that I want to celebrate. I seek to harness its power to tell the many stories relevant to our lives, our culture and our heritage
here in Cornwall."
- ISOBEL BLOOMFIELD
"Dance and rhythm have been with me for as long as
I can remember.
I cannot imagine life without making music with my feet."
- DEBORAH EDWARDS
Our DANCE FOUNDATIONS
Shindig Cloggers
