Education

2022

Diploma — Systemic Coaching; ATi (AT)

2021

Diploma — Dyslexia Trainer and Learning Coach; Bildungsforum Rampitsch (AT)

2012—2014

Somatic Movement Education in Body-Mind Centering; Moveus Gbr (DE)

2008—2011

BA (Hons) Choreography with Community Practices; Dartington College of Arts/UCF (UK)

Selected Workshops and Intensives

2020

The Six Viewpoints: Pedagogy — Deborah Black

Creative Dance for Children — Gabrielle Seeleitner (Vienna)

2019

The Six Viewpoints — Mary Overlie (Vienna)

2017-18

The Speaking Dancer Interdisciplinary Performance Training
— Dance Research Studio (UK)

2014

Body-Mind Centering® European Conference (EE)

2013-14

6 month artist residency — Owl Barn (UK)

2012

P.O.R.C.H. Choreography Module — Ponderosa (DE)

Foundations in Natural Intelligence — The Beshara School (UK)

2011

Ecopsychology — Schumacher College (UK)

2009

European Laboratory Theatre Summer Residency Programme
 — Au Brana (FR)

2009-11

International Summer School — International Performance Association (DE)

The Unseeable Animal: Body and Ecology; Solo Making Laboratory — Rosalyn Maynard (UK)

2009-10

Myth and Wilderness Rites of Passage, One Year Immersion — Westcountry School of Myth/Martin Shaw (UK)

2009

Beside and Beyond: Grotowski Training - Para-Active/ZU-UK

International Summer School — Footsbarn Travelling Theatre (FR)

2008-10

Choreography and Composition Lab — Angus Balbernie (UK)

Butoh - Marie Gabrielle Rotie (UK)

2007-08

Thrift Music Theatre Laboratory — Tim Godwin (UK)

Work Experience

2023

Feedback Facilitator — Raw Matters: Tender Steps Residency

Working with the artists in the Raw Matters Tender Steps residency to facilitate peer-to-peer feedback in the process of developing their work

2022

Artist/Choreographer/Performer — Raw Matters Site Specific Residency
Creating a new site-specific performance in the Sonnenwendviertel in Vienna, in collaboration with June Chung, Lena Maya Turek

Guest Teacher — TanzQuartier Wien
Teaching Body-Mind Centering and the Six Viewpoints. For more information see here.

2021

Co-founder (with Imani Rameses and Lucia Rosenfeld)  — Plexus: Kulurverein für Kunst, Bildung und Neurowissenschaften
A cultural association based in Vienna promoting artistic and scientific research into neuroaesthetics. Developing an educational programme combining research into dyslexia with devised dance-theatre

Choreographer — Tanz*Hotel: Artists at Resort Residency
Working with Imani Rameses and Lucia Rosenfeld on a project, inspired by Goat Island, Mary Overlie, Susan Redhorst and Lynda Barry, exploring the topics of episodic memory and ecology

2020

Dramaturg and performer — (re)Public
Site-Specific Movement Investigations with Imani Rameses and others

Body-Mind Centering® Teacher — TanzQuartier Wien
and Berufsverband für Tanz- und Ausdruckstherapie Austria
Teaching introductory courses in Body-Mind Centering® for professionals

Organiser and Facilitator — Summer Mentoring Program: Wiener Perspektive/School OFF
A mini-festival responding to the COVID crisis asking how we might train and learn differently in the absence of classes

2018-19

English Language Teaching in Vienna

2018

Dance Educator; English Language Day Camps (AT)
Doing community dance with 350 kids! Bam!

Movement Director/Dramaturg — Fallen Women; Kesia Guillery (UK)
Delivering a movement classes and physical training for the actors
Choreographing movement based scenes in a bi-lingual (German/English), site-specific and immersive production
Offering dramaturgical input for the overall production

2017

Learning Support Assistant; Remedy Education (UK)
One-to-one support of children with complex learning needs and behavioural challenges within mainstream schools

Movement Facilitator; MIND (UK)
Working with groups in an adult mental health centre for psychiatric outpatients
Teaching movement for wellbeing for groups in a psychiatric centre. Mostly used traditional Chi Gong and neurodevelopmental approaches

2014

Art and Movement Facilitator; Nelson Trust Addictions Centre (UK)
Regular art and movement classes for clients in an addictions rehabilitation centre

2013

Choreography Teacher; TanzZentrum Göttingen (DE)
Offering regular classes in choreographic composition classes for advanced dance students

2011—2012

Movement Therapy Assistant; Schülgemeinschaft Föhrenbuhl (DE)
Assisting the movement therapist in a Steiner/Waldorf school for learning disabled children

2009—2012

Community Dance Assistant; Rosalyn Maynard (UK)
Assisting dance artist and educator Rosalyn Maynard in organising, teaching, choreographing and performing in studio and site-specific work

Teaching

2022

Body-Mind Centering (Embodying Developmental Movement) — Initiative für Tanz- und Bewegungskunst Österreich
The Basics —Backpulver Wien
Body-Mind Centering and the Six Viewpoints — TanzQuartier Wien

2021

Qigong — Independent (June-July)
Connecting and Embodying — Irish Association for Arts and Creative Therapies (June)
A somatic perspective on Neuroaesthetics — University for Applied Arts Vienna (March)

2020

Introduction to Body-Mind Centering® — TanzQuartier Wien
Introduction to Body-Mind Centering® — Berufsverband für Tanz- und Ausdruckstherapie Austria
Mentoring Summer Gathering- organiser and facilitator, Wiener Perspektive/Vienna SchoolOFF
Creativity and Addiction Recovery - guest speaker, ACA, Prague (CZ)

2019

Embodying the Skeletal System—Tanz*Hotel Vienna

2018

Music and Dance—teacher, English Language Day Camps, Vienna

2017

Embodying the Polyvagal System—guest speaker, Mind, London
Movement and Wellbeing — facilitator, Mind, London

2016

Body-Mind Centering Certification Programme: The Endocrine System—teaching assistant, EmbodyMove, London

2015

Embodying Embryology, Totnes (2015)

2014

Embodying the Pelvic Floor, Totnes
The Living Body, Totnes
Cellular Consciousness, Totnes
Composing through the Fluids — BMCA European Conference, Viljandi (EE)

2013

Art and Performance - teacher, Nelson Trust Rehabilitation Centre, Stroud
Dance composition — teacher, TanzZentrum, Göttingen
Embodying developmental movement - teacher, Dresden CI Jam, Dresden
Body-Mind Centering® - teacher, SOZO Visions in Motion, Kassel
Introduction to Printmaking - teaching assistant, Vanessa Arbuthnott, Cirencester

2012

Movement Therapy Assistant—Benoire Ulrich/Camphill Föhrenbuhl, Heiligenberg

2011

Performance and Embodiment - guest teacher, Royal Conservatoire of Music and Drama (Student Union), Glasgow
Performance and Embodiment - teacher, The Breslava Collective, London
Performance and Embodiment - teacher, The Iodine Collective, Bergen (NO)

2009-11

Somatics and community dance - teaching assistant, Rosalyn Maynard, Devon (UK)
Independent Teaching — Body-Mind Centering

Since 2014

Private sessions
Private practice working with individuals, including professional dancers with injuries; people with health problems and psychotherapists and developing body-based approaches

Other Projects

2021

Six Viewpoints Working Group — founding member with Deborah Black

2020 — present

Wiener Perspektive: Training and Education Group - member

2019 — 2020

Bodywork Enquiry Group - founding member, ImFlieger, Vienna

2018

TransArts Communication Festival - artist assistant, Nove Zamky (SK)

2017

Discipline of Authentic Movement peer group - founding member, London

2016 — 2017

Movement Therapy Peer Group (est. 1995) - member, Totnes

2010

Mythtelling in Movement - dance anthropologist, Bali (ID)

2008

Photography Group Exhibition, Lightbox Gallery, Woking

2004-06

The Impressionables - founder of a band as singer, songwriter and guitarist, in 2006 recorded an EP, London