Staff A-Z

McGregor is Professor of Choreography at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance, has Honorary Doctorates from The Royal College of Art London, Plymouth University, University of Leeds, University of Chester, and UAL, and is an Honorary Fellow of the British Science Association. He has won four Critics’ Circle National Dance Awards, two Time Out Awards, three South Bank Show Awards, three Olivier Awards, a Prix Benois de la Danse and two Golden Mask Awards. In 2011 McGregor was awarded a CBE for Services to Dance and in 2021 was honoured with a Lifetime Achievement Award at the Prix de Lausanne. His Majesty The King Charles III appointed Wayne McGregor a Knighthood in the 2024 Birthday Honours List.

After Transitions Will performed in Matthew Bourne’s Swan Lake completing two international tours, a UK tour and a Sadler’s Wells season. He then moved into more project-based work whilst developing an interest in teaching and in 2008 joined Trinity Laban as the Graduate Assistant for Technique.

Since then Will has taught at graduate and undergraduate level as well as many youth and community projects and more recently at Arts Educational Schools, London and as the Lead Teacher for the Centre for Advanced Training at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance. He is currently the Programme Leader for Contemporary Dance Foundation Programmes at Trinity Laban and is still performing and choreographing professionally. Will co-founded his own company called Anecdotal Evidence in 2013 and continues to make work under this banner.

Simonetta Alessandri studied Ballet, Modern, Contemporary and Jazz dance in Turin (Bella Hutter school and Teatro Nuovo school) in Rome (Mimma Testa school) and she obtained the TC at the Royal Academy of Dance. In the early 90s, she started to study Contact Improvisation and Improvisation with the foremost teachers: S. Paxton, N. Stark Smith, A. Harwood, J. Hamilton, J. Skinner, D. Heitkamp, and R. Saporah. In 2002 she completed a 4-year programme to become a qualified teacher of the Feldenkrais Method. She is currently working on an MA in Choreography at London Contemporary Dance School.

In 2012 Mr Amundsen graduated from The Royal Academy of Dance, Professional Dancer’s teaching Diploma(PDTD).

As a dance teacher Kim has been teaching Ballet, Contemporary, and Boris kniaseff Floor Barre technique (learned from Jaqueline Fynnaert in Paris) for Ballet and Contemporary Companies and Colleges across the UK and internationally. Such Companies and Organisations include:

Moving Art A Nordic Dance Company, Matthew Bourne’s Adventure In Motion Pictures, Randon Dance Company, The Place, Murley Dance Company, Colin’s Performing Art, Master’s Performing Art, London Studio Centre, Dance East Academy, Pineaple Dance Studio, Central School of Ballet, Oslo Danse Ensamble, GDT(Free daily classes for Professional Dancers, Norway), Baardar Performing Art Academy, Akademi, London Amateur Ballet, D&B School of Performing Arts (head of Ballet). Lecture at Kington University, Dance East CAT, Lecturer of Ballet and Contemporary dance at Trinity Laban Conservetoire of Music and Dance (present) Acosta Dance Centre (present) The Hub studios London (present).

Robert Anderson teaches dance improvisation and contact improvisation for actors and dancers in Higher Education and in a variety of settings in the UK and abroad. Robert has been passionately involved with contact improvisation since 1996. Influential teachers have included Kirsty Simson, Nancy Stark Smith, Martin Keogh, Ray Chung, Charlie Morrissey, Angus Balbernie and Rick Nodine. Robert has taught workshops in Austria, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Reunion, Northern Ireland, France, Switzerland, Germany, Hungary, Israel, Poland, Czech Republic, Russia, Spain, Ukraine, and Italy.

Robert directed London Contact Improvisation (2001 – 2021), a community-based organisation, which delivered a programme of classes, workshops and jams at Moving East and Caxton House. He was also part of the curator team for CI36 in Pennsylvania (2008) and the European Contact Improvisation Teachers Exchange in Ormskirk, England (2009).

Alongside teaching and organising, Robert is actively involved as performer, director and collaborator in many performance projects. Robert has been a company member of Touchdown Dance since 2002. He performed in TACT (2002) and Closer (2005) which throughout the UK. He has also performed in many choreographies and improvised works by artists including Joe Moran, Kate Brown, Tino Seghal, Jovair Longo, Meghan Flannigan, Adriana Pegorer, Lalitaraja, Sarah Shorten, Magdalena Radlowska, and the improvisation collective SoFt.

Damien has undergone training with notable Street, Club and Funk style dance icons including, Elite Force (HipHop), Breed of Motion (Waacking), Mighty Zulu Kingz (Breaking) and more.

Performances include Brit Awards and principle dancer with London’s Big Dance Bus tour, while choreographic credits include The National Theatre and London 2012 Olympics opening ceremony.

Damien’s commitment to educating others earned him UK Dance Teacher of the Year (2014) as voted by Dance Today magazine. He has also headlined as a teacher for Unidance resulting in a 5 year tour of Russia, Azerbaijan and Ukraine.

As director of B-Better dance education company, Damien teaches many demographics and lists American School in London, Royal Academy of Dance and British Heart Foundation as former residencies.

Clare has produced and toured her own work for the last 10 years and has also received a number of international commissions. These include She Has Fallen and Now She is Awake for The First Physical Theatre Company, South Africa: Between The Corridors, a large scale site-specific work set in an old turbine hall in Copenhagen for The European City of Culture, and Flock for SMD Denmark. She has danced with numerous companies including the Rosemary Butcher Dance Company, the Gregory Nash Group, The Cholmondeleys, Oracle Dance Company, Fin Walker, and Emily Burns.

Stephen trained at Rambert School of Ballet and Contemporary Dance and began his professional career before graduation, working with Lloyd Newson, David Massingham and co-founding Triptych Dance Company as a choreographer.

After graduation, he began an apprenticeship with Rambert Dance Company before joining Diversions (now National Dance Company Wales).

Stephen began a long relationship with Mark Bruce Company, who he has worked with on many productions, as well as David Massingham Dance, Random Dance Co. (now Company Wayne McGregor,), Matthew Bourne’s New Adventures, V-Tol, Red Rain, Irish Modern Dance Theatre, English National Ballet and opera productions for ENO, ROH, Glyndebourne and Opera Glass Works.

Stephen has worked with many choreographers including Christopher Bruce, Matthew Hawkins, Richard Alston, Darren Ellis, Jo Fong, Seeta Patel, Etta Murfitt, Arthur Pita, Michael Keegan Dolan, Gaby Agis, Kate Flatt, Anthony van Laast and Alexandra Reynolds.

Theatre directors include Howard Davies (National Theatre), Stephen Pimlott (Apollo Theatre), Braham Murray and David Threlfall (Royal Exchange, Manchester), Robert La Page and Atom Egoyan.

Stephen was a dancer and principal understudy for Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Bombay Dreams (original cast) and has also worked in theatre, film and TV as both actor and dancer.

In 2005, Stephen studied professional photography at London School of Communication and worked at Amberroom Studios before turning freelance. He continues to work as a photographer specialising in arts and creative editorial.

Before joining Trinity-Laban Stephen taught at Rambert School, Northern School of Contemporary Dance and London Studio Centre, as well as providing classes and workshops for professional companies to this day.

Luke began his dance training at the Northern School of Contemporary Dance and then went on to complete his BA Hons degree at Laban in 2008. In 2009 he joined post graduate dance company Edge at London Contemporary Dance School.

Professionally he has performed for a variety of companies internationally alongside working with visual artists performing in galleries (Tate, Hayward Gallery)

His choreographic work has been shown at Canterbury Festival, Saddlers Wells (Damn Fine Dance at Elixir Festival), The Place, Siobhan Davies Studios, Move it 2016 and Arts Depot.

Luke also has a passion for teaching and has delivered classes and workshops with Greenwich Dance, The Place, Circus Space, Independent Dance, Laban, Surrey University, London Studio Centre, Salzburg Academy of Experimental Dance, Shobana Jeyasingh and Candoco.

Charlotte joined Springs Dance Company in 2008, performing and teaching extensively both nationally and internationally for over 8 years. Working with Springs gave Charlotte the opportunity to work with choreographers such as Darren Ellis, Will Tuckett, Vicky Fox and Suzannah McCreight. A highlight of her performing career was performing a solo piece choreographed by Suzannah McCreight at the Royal Albert Hall. Working with Springs Dance Company gave Charlotte a great deal of teaching experience, teaching on the company’s apprenticeship course and annual summer school.

Charlotte has led many educational projects and workshops in primary and secondary schools in a range of settings across the UK. Alongside dancing for Springs, Charlotte has performed in projects at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and Resolutions, amongst other platforms. Charlotte now teaches across the South East, teaching ballet and contemporary techniques to students from a range of ages and including a professional course.

Qualifications:

• PhD entitled Biomechanical analysis of the impact of fatigue on the Dorsi flexors and Plantarflexors
• MSc in Applied Sport Science
• BSc (Hons) Sport Science
• Post Graduate Certificate in Teaching and Learning in HE (PG-CertHE)

Teaching Experience:

• Senior lecturer and course director, Sports Analysis and Coaching, Kingston University.
• Senior laboratory technician, Kingston University.

Outputs:

Howatson, G., Goodall, S., Hill, J., Brouner, J., Gaze, D., McHugh, M. P., Shave, R. (2011). The influence of dietary antioxidant supplementation on exercise-induced cardiac troponin release. International Journal of Cardiology, 152 (1), 101 – 102

Howatson, G., McHugh, M.P., Hill, J., Brouner, J., Jewell, A., van Someren, K.A., and Shave, R. Howatson, S.A. (2010). The effects of a tart cherry juice supplement on muscle damage, inflammation, oxidative stress and recovery following Marathon running. Scandinavian Journal of Medicine and Science in Sports, 20, 843-52.

Howatson, G., McHugh, M. P.,  Hill, J. A., Brouner, J., Jewell, A. P., van Someren, K. A., Shave, R. E. and Howatson, S. A. (2009). Influence of Tart Cherry Juice on Indices of recovery Following Marathon Running, Scandinavian Journal of Medicine & Science in Sports, 19(5) 975 – 979

Howatson, G.; Glaister, M.; Brouner, J.; van Someren, K. A. (2009). The reliability of electromechanical delay and torque during isometric and concentric isokinetic contractions, Journal of Electromyography and Kinesiology, 19(5) 975-979

Over the course of her career, in the UK and abroad, she has worked in a broad range of roles including dance artist, choreographer, producer, CPD facilitator, inclusive consultant and Artistic Director. She is passionate about making dance accessible to all and works with a wide range of abilities and ages from 2 to 102. Vicki has extensive experience facilitating dance opportunities for people who define as disabled, neurodivergent, learning disabled, D/deaf, blind and visually impaired, people with long term health conditions and people living with dementia.

Outside of Trinity Laban Vicki teaches nationally for a variety of companies including the Royal Ballet and Opera, DanceEast, Shobana Jeyasingh Dance and Stopgap Dance Company. Under her company Dash Dot Dance, she facilitates multi-media projects, delivers professional development training (CPD) with a focus on making dance accessible to all and provides accessible participatory and performance projects for a range of organisations such as The Albany, Museum of London, Lord Mayor’s Show, The Barbican and Liberty Festival – London’s flagship festival celebrating groundbreaking work by D/deaf, disabled and neurodivergent artists.

Hannah is an independent dance artist and teacher based in London. Since graduating with an MA in Dance Performance (Trinity Laban) she has danced with Nina Kov, Masha Gurina, Nutshell Dance Company, SKADooSH Dance, Daisy Farris Dance Collective and as part of the Olympics Closing Ceremony directed by Kim Gavin.

Hannah teaches dance across a range of professional and educational settings and has been part of the Dance Faculty at Trinity Laban since 2014. She is also an Associate Dance Artist for English National Ballet (ENB) delivering open technique classes and creative workshops to a wide range of participant groups. From 2018-21 Hannah was the contemporary dance tutor at ENB School, delivering contemporary technique, creative workshops and audition coaching for all three year groups. She produced choreographic work for second year students as part of the Winter Showcase (2018/9), directed contemporary classwork as part of a showcase filmed at The Roundhouse (2020), and supported the rehearsal direction of works by Jose Agudo and Didy Veldman. She has taught on the BA programme at Bird College (2016-18) and as a freelance dance artist for City Academy, Springs Dance Company and University of Portsmouth amongst others.

Alongside teaching, Hannah has presented her own choreographic work as part of Resolution! Festival (The Place, London) and has extensive experience working with artists from other disciplines, most recently with visual artist, Emma Cousins. She has developed a keen interest in capturing movement (through film, drawing and text) collaborating with filmmakers and artists to gain new perspectives on the moving body and our relationship to wider contexts. Hannah has worked as Rehearsal Director on a number of short dance films including Michael Boucherie’s ‘OneShot’ (Trinity Laban), Lingjing Yin’s ‘Touch the Sound’ (YAMAHA) and Ron Arad’s ‘Curtain Call’ (The Roundhouse, London).

For the 2019-2020 Academic year Otis was a Graduate Intern in Dance Technique and Programme Support at Trinity Laban after which he obtained an Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy accreditation (AFHEA) before becoming a Lecturer in Dance from February 2021. He Teaches Classical Ballet, Cunningham based and fusion contemporary dance styles combining training methods explored spanning his fourteen-year career and currently teaches at Bird College and on the Centre for Advance Training programme at Trinity Laban.

Otis is currently engaged with CIE 7273 (Geneva) after re-joining the Company for the creation of Ever 2021 and the revival of Tarab. He is involved in various creative processes and re-staging’s maintaining a professional practice to inform his educational approach.

Raymond has guest taught for various dance companies around the world including English National Ballet, National Ballet of Portugal, Singapore Dance Theatre, Rambert Dance Company, Richard Alston Dance Company, Pheonix Dance Theatre, New Adventures, Company Wayne McGregor and highlights includes International Ballet Gala in Malaysia featuring principals and soloists from San Francisco Ballet, Hamburg Ballet and Boston Ballet. He has coached dance students for the Adeline Genee Awards and the Asian Grand Prix. Raymond is also a guest tutor at the Dance Masters International in New Zealand.

Choreographic commissions include for the National Ballet of Portugal, Hong Kong Ballet, Ballet Black (Royal Opera House), Hong Kong Academy of Performing Arts, Dance Space Malaysia and the BBC.

Raymond has produced and choreographed two ballet productions, La Sylphide (Slovenia) and The Sleeping Beauty (Malaysia).
In October 2015, Raymond premiered his piece ‘Unbroken Silence’ in the USA at YourMove Modern Dance Festival, New Jersey.

Raymond was invited to Hong Kong in 2017 where he choreographed ‘The Architecture of Wu’ for the Hong Kong Academy of Performing Arts.

In June 2018, Raymond was awarded Master of Arts in Dance Technique Pedagogy by Middlesex University.
In 2021, in response to the pandemic, Raymond produced, choreographed and directed his film Monoi/Mazi (Alone/Together), using purely non-professional dancers who survived Covid 19 virus.

Raymond has been Lecturer in Dance for London Contemporary Dance School and Rambert School of Ballet and Contemporary Dance and is currently Lecturer in Dance at the Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance.

Raymond has just wrapped up filming the TV drama To Be Continued as Choreographer and Movement Director (2022).