Teaching Anthology

My formal training began with my BA(hons) from LCDS, 2003 - 2006. From 2008 - 2010, this training was expanded in New York at Movement Research with teachers such as K.J. Holmes, Michelle Boule and Barbara Mahler. The experience of being in New York influenced the structure of my technique class combining movement research and improvisation with choreographic material and technical exercises. My study of improvisation and contact improvisation with Kirstie Simpson, Rick Nodine, Jovair Longo and Merav Israel continued to expand my practice. From 2010, I began to train primarily under the instruction of Renate Graziadei & Arthur Stäldi (Laborgras). Through the ''Renaissance Project'', Berlin 2013 - 2015, their particular approach of movement as language with lineage drawing back to Trisha Brown was researched alongside David Hernandez, Keith A. Thompson, and Rebecca Hilton. This experience consolidated my training methodology which is influenced by Qi Gong, Body Mind Centering and Yoga. I am a certified Yoga teacher in Hatha and Ashtanga Vinyasa.

Teaching Experience

2022 - 2023: Interspecies Awareness Practice, Uferstudios, Berlin. Consortia with Moss Benyon Juckes, Heizhaus, Berlin.

2020 - 2021: Qi Gong and Interspecies Awareness Practice, Hellerau European Centre for the Arts, Dresden & Dance North, Scotland.

2019 - 2020: Online teaching: Pranayama Technique & Warm-Up, Hellerau European Centre for the Arts, Dresden.

2018 - 2019: Open Contemporary Class and Contact Improvisation, TanzEtage, Goerlitz, Saxony. Professional Contemporary Class,                              Scottish Dance Theatre, Dundee.

2014 - 2015: Professional Class, Dock 11, Berlin. Workshop- Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, 

2012 - 2013: Contemporary Dance Teacher, Intergenerational, Céolas, Outer Hebrides

              Contemporary Dance teacher/choreographer, Dance Intensive, Tanzfabrik, Berlin.

2010 - 2011: Anima(l)[us] - Company Class, Bethanien Kunst Quartier, Berlin

             Tatwerk, Berlin - Open Improvisation, k77 Berlin, - Contact Improvisation.

2008 - 2009: Professional Class, Dancebase, Dance House Glasgow.

2007 - 2008: Grit, Professional Contemporary Class, Scottish Ballet.

2006 - 2007: Contemporary and Streetdance teacher, Right2Dance, Paisley.

Class description (contemporary technique) 

We work with the breath to let go of muscular tension and re-tune: calming the nervous system and listening to gravity’s pull to find the path of least resistance. In either lying, sitting or standing, I invite participants to  become aware of rupture and encourage connections and channels to open up by facilitating each individual’s capacity for freedom and articulation in the joints. 

From here we begin to strengthen, activating core muscle groups yet simultaneously engaging the ability of the muscles to respond with greatest efficiency and effortlessness. At this point the class becomes more dynamic through weight bearing exercises which travel into space. 

Longer phrases of movement and choreographic material where the language is defined by an awareness of gravity’s pull, skeletal alignment, joint articulation and democracy of body parts in multiple directions ensues. The cardiovascular and muscular systems are activated as well as more space in mind and body. 

„Gefördert durch die Beauftragte der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien im Programm NEUSTART KULTUR, Hilfsprogramm DIS-TANZEN des Dachverband Tanz Deutschland.“