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My studies enabled me to approach teaching dance in an inclusive way providing opportunities to all people to experience it. I believe that dance can have a great positive impact on people’s lives, allowing a gradual transformation to occur to themselves and their communities.

I have an immerse curiosity and I can get highly inspired when working in dance context with people across all age groups and from diverse backgrounds including children through late adulthood, along with elderly and disabled people.

I have a broad experience in facilitating choreography laboratories and dance classes within various dance schools and community centres in London and abroad (Spain). As a teacher, I try to create an enjoyable experience for the participants, targeting their individual needs and expectations so they can improve to their best of ability. I encourage all the participants to work within a creative and supportive environment that supports their skills and allows opportunities for 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

Creative, rich and vibrant classroom environment that stimulates students’ minds in multiple ways. The dance lesson fuses creativity in science content. Students will gain a wealth of critical knowledge, deepen their critical and creative thinking skills, and learn to collaborate and communicate effectively while enjoying dancing solo and group sequences. In these lessons, students will utilise their knowledge of basic science concepts to create dancing patterns that simulate movement from scientific ideas and imagery. They will formulate and answer questions about how movement choices communicate abstract ideas in dance and demonstrate an understanding of how personal experience influences the interpretation of a dance. Lessons are structured around themes derived by the secondary science curriculum: Students have the chance to explore elements of Life Science, Physical Science, Earth and Space Science. These are the following topics in which the dance science classes are based upon.

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

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