WOrkshopS IntervieWs Curation
Photo credit: Ellie Kurttz @RSC
WORKSHOPS & RESIDENCIES
2023 August 17th, The Mono Box, London Movement and the creative actor
2021 August Residency with Projekt Europa Let Your Hands Sing in the Silence as part of Horizon
2019 Movement Workshops for Actors at the Teatro Nacional D.Maria II, Lisbon
2018 Art of the Actor, San Miniato, Italy
Improvising Shakespeare workshop co led with actor Scott Handy
2017 Open Arts, Nicosia, Cyprus
Neutral Mask Workshop and talk on Movement Direction
2015 & 2016 Pontifica Universdiad Catolica de Chile, Santiago, Chile.
Workshops on presence, neutrality and chorus for the actor
2009-2014 Workshops in New York on movement direction, USA
2008 & 2009 Movement teacher for Universite d’automne at the Scene Nationale, Chateau-Gontier, France
2008 Movement practitioner at Athens International Workshop Project – chorus work for dancers and actors.
1997-2001 Visiting Artist Institute of Dramatic Arts of Damascus, Syria. Yearly visits to lead movement and theatre workshops
Photo credit: Keith Pattison @RSC
INTERVIEWS & Blogs
2023 Downtime Podcast Movement Direction with Lou Cope of COAD, the Centre of Applied Dramaturgy
2019 RSC Blog Whispers from the Wings: Movement Director’s process on a show
2019 The Movement Podcast curated by Natasha Harrison
2018 The Stage Short Interview about movement direction teaching
2018 The Wolves production blog about the creative preparation of a movement director
WOMEN RISE UP Panel discussion of women in the arts from the RSC Season 2018 with The Pool
Digital Theatre: Practitioners on Practice Ayse Tashkiran on Movement
History of Movement Direction at the Royal National Theatre filmed by Dr Sita Thomas
Photo credit: Peter Simpkin
CURATION & TALKS
2020 August 20th Launch of the Movement Director’s Association MDA the first organisation to gather and advocate for movement directors - co founded with Diane Alison-Mitchell
2019 21st November Movement Direction: Lineages and Contemporary Practices at the 3rd Seminário Internacional Corpo Cênico, convened by Artes do Movimento of Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro - UNIRIO. Talk and Workshop
2019 17th April Litz Pisk’s Pedagogic and Artistic Influence on Post-War British Theatre at Senate House
25th March Creative Collaboration: Women at the Helm at Equity
20th March Moving the Stage: Movement Director’s Practice at RCSSD
1st March Shaping the Stage at the Old Vic Theatre
2018 Radical Mischief Conference RSC and University of Birmingham; curated conversation on how scholarship and performance might explore representations of violence in performance
2014 TO DATE: ICM Established the International Community for Movement with Vanessa Ewan
2009 Movement Directors in Conversation RCSSD