My studies have shaped my inclusive approach to teaching dance, providing opportunities for everyone in the community. I believe dance can positively transform lives.

I’m deeply curious and inspired by working with diverse groups, from children to the elderly and those with disabilities.

I have extensive experience leading choreography labs and dance classes in various schools and community centers in London and Spain. As a teacher, I aim to create enjoyable experiences that address individual needs, fostering a supportive environment for skill development.

Contemporary and Improvisation Classes for Adults:

Contemporary released based classes with improvisation elements that have emphasis on the somatic approach and body mind centering. Classes are focused on the floor work, body alignment and connection when executing centre and travelling sequences and spatial awareness in order to generate refined qualities of movement. These classes enable the participants to develop technical aspects of dance while enjoying the process of dancing and moving intuitively in a holistic (body-mind) environment.

 

Contemporary-Creative Classes for Children and Teenagers:

These classes are based on exercises that offer a chance for creative movement maintaining soft yet rigorous ways of working with the body. Classes are designed to suit the various needs of children and teenagers according to the individual needs of the group, and the desired outcome of each session. Classes are often thematically based in order to generate fun activities thus allowing creative capacities of children to arise while improving in dance technique.

 

Choreography / Creative based Workshop:

 Creative Choreographic workshops offer the opportunity to engage in creative dialogue with our bodies through movement. The elements of the workshops are based on tools I am using when creating work. These include use of voice, object, text, video, experiential anatomy of bodies in space, use of improvisation tasks-exercises that allowing personal and interpersonal spatial relationships to occur when moving. These creative workshops find a great application in a supportive environment that enables participants own voice and movement imagination to develop.

 

Dance Science Classes

A creative and vibrant classroom environment stimulates students' minds in various ways. The dance lessons integrate creativity with science, enhancing critical thinking and collaboration while students enjoy solo and group dances. They will use basic science concepts to create dance patterns that reflect scientific ideas and imagery. Students will explore how movement choices convey abstract concepts and how personal experiences influence dance interpretation. Lessons are themed around the secondary science curriculum, covering topics in Life Science, Physical Science, and Earth and Space Science.

Life Science- Vertebrate Classification, Butterfly Life Cycle, Plant Life Cycle and Photosynthesis, Cells, Organs, Body Tissues, Five Senses, Bones and Muscles

Physical Science- Magnets, Forces, Electricity, Atoms, Molecules, States of Water

Earth and Space Sciences- Weather, Constellations, Moon Phases, Water Cycle, Erosion, Weathering, Rocks

 

Choreography in Landscape

Dance seminar insired by choreographic motifs generated by the human experience in nature and the landscape of Korfos location in Gavdos Isand.

Moving to Nature

Embodying the natural experiences indoors.

In this workshop you will have the opportunity to create narratives through movement using memories of your own experiences in nature (urban and wild).

Simple movement patterns will be developed and you will have the chance to move freely in a supported and guided environment while being introduced to basic principles of contemporary dance and improvisation.

A way to connect with your inner self through body movement and open up to a new perception of nature.

Dance Choreographic/

Music workshop in collaboration with Junk Orchestra

Venue: St Christopher’s mixed school Letchworth.

I led a one-day dance and music workshop with Junk Orchestra for 30 Year 7 students in St' Christopher's Eco School in Letchworth. Together, we created a choreographic piece featuring live music that was performed at their Christmas Showcase. The choreography incorporated scientific concepts from the Year 7 curriculum, specifically using particle theory to illustrate molecular movement. Students presented solo, duet, and group dance works for a live audience.

ArtWorks Project/

Community Arts Participatory Laboratory in collaboration with Barbican Centre

Venue: Scylight Centre

As part of ArtWorks Project funded by Paul Hamlyn I had the opportunity to lead part of a creative lab. I facilitated a session to postgraduate students from Goldsmiths University, Royal Central School of Speech and Drama and Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance.

The workshop aimed to engage participants and encourage a creative approach to new possibilities. It explored the contrast between a restricted and free mind-body state, examining what creative capacities emerge from these conditions. Can creativity thrive in any state? The lab also offered opportunities to incorporate creative tools using the physical body.

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Big Dance Festival London 2012

Venue: Fircroft Primary School/Tooting Bec

Dance Teacher in the choreographic dance session of C'mon and Dance Community Project (led by Another Dance Company) in collaboration with students of Fircroft Primary School. This project was presented at Tooting Bec Park as part of the Big Dance Festival 2012, London.

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You Are Here/Movement based workshop

Venue: Small Hall, Kingsgate Community Centre

Facilitator: InMotus

107 Kingsgate Road, NW6 2JH

You are Here Project supported by Camden Arts Centre, Arts Council, Kingsgate Workshops, http://youarehere2014.tumblr.com/pressrelease

Express yourself through the act of dance.

Movement workshop with Corali Dance Group

Venue: Community centre in Brixton

Dance leader in workshop based class with Corali Dance group (teenagers with disabilities) that contributed to the research and development of their Matisse On My Mind Project presented at Morley College.

 
 

Student Testimonials