Team
I’m from everywhere I’ve ever been
Alison Carlyle and Amy Geddes first worked together in 1998 as founding members of pioneering group The Scottish Stepdance Company. Its groundbreaking and critically acclaimed work explored the relationship between music, dance and Gaelic song, and performed stepdance as an indigenous percussive artform.
Director Gerry Mulgrew joined the company in 2025 as a co-creator of Deiseil: Dancing in Time.
Tha mi deiseil an aw’!
Meet the team leading Deiseil Airson Dannsa.
Alison Carlyle
Co-Founder & Artistic Director
Alison learnt stepdance from leading Cape Breton dancers as it was reintroduced to Scotland in the mid 1990’s and was a founding member of The Scottish Stepdance Company.
Amy Geddes
Co-Founder & Music Director
A musician and educator, Amy is widely recognised as a leading light in the world of contemporary Scottish Fiddle and was a founding member of The Scottish Stepdance Company..
Gerry Mulgrew
Director & Show Co-Creator
A director, playwright and actor, Gerry has collaborated with many artists and companies in Scotland, the UK and abroad and co-founded Communicado Theatre Company in 1983.
This is an important and timely project that is of national significance in terms of safeguarding stepdance as an art form in Scotland.