Jai is a community dance artist and choreographer who has recently relocated back to Scotland after working across Hertfordshire and London predominantly within inclusive dance. Jai has a vast amount of experience working with young people both in schools and in other community settings delivery dance workshops often as part of the school curriculum, and also as an Arts Award adviser incorporating different art forms.

Now based in Edinburgh Jai is a student at Queen Margaret University where she is studying MA Arts, Festival and Cultural Management. She is an advocate for the arts for mental health, which was the focus of her first MA in 2012, and is currently an intern at Art in Healthcare, who are based in Edinburgh.

For 5 years as a producer and artistic director Jai ran her own organisation ‘Insights Platforms’, which supported a variety of performing artists by creating opportunities for them to deliver workshops and teach within their practice, and also to present their works at performing arts festivals and independent Insights Platforms across the U.K. including the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, the Camden Fringe, Dance Live in Aberdeen, RADA, Northern School of Contemporay Dance and The Holy Biscuit art gallery in Newcastle upon Tyne. Jai is passionate about creating opportunities for performing artists in order not to disengage from their practice, and is currently working on the Insights Platforms relaunch for 2019.