Staff A-Z

Kathy teaches Contact Improvisation, Choreography and Performance as a faculty member at Trinity Laban. She has been developing and sharing her practice through creative collaboration, performance and teaching for over 25 years. Her interest is in improvisation as an integrated technical, compositional and performance practice.

Zoi Dimitriou was born in Athens, Greece. She graduated from the Greek State School of Dance with Honours, going on to study with Trisha Brown in New York. She completed a masters degree in European Dance Theatre Practice at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance in London, graduating with distinction.

Khyle Eccles is a movement, dance and performance specialist with a varied portfolio career – and is one of very few dance specific strength and conditioning specialists in the UK. Khyle received his BA(Hons) at Rambert School of Ballet and Contemporary Dance, and his MSc Dance Science at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance.

Hubert Essakow is a London based choreographer, born in Johannesburg, South Africa. Trained as a classical ballet dancer by Dianne Cheesman, Hubert joined Capab Ballet at the age of 18 in 1989. In 2003 Hubert moved to London and joined The Royal Ballet Company, where he remained for 10 years becoming a soloist and performing in works by Frederick Ashton, Kenneth MacMillan, George Balanchine, Twyla Tharp, Mats Ek, Christopher Wheeldon and William Forsythe amongst others.

Lucy Evans trained at London Contemporary Dance School and Trinity Laban as part of Transitions Dance Company 2007 gaining an MA in Dance Performance. Whilst in Transitions, Lucy toured work in the UK and Europe by Henri Okguike, Jenni Kivela, Pablo Ventura, Aszure Barton and Cristian Duarte. Her career as a freelance dance artist has included performing with H2dance, La Fura del Baus, Cie. Willi Dorner, e.dance, Aletta Collins, DeDa and the Olympics Closing Ceremony under the direction of Kym Gavin.

Lizzie Fort is a dance artist, researcher and educator based in Woolwich, SE London. She is driven by challenging assumptions about who dances, what dance looks like and where it takes place, championing artistic potential in everyone.

Before joining the faculty at Trinity Laban: Centre for Advanced Training as a Dance Teacher, André played Seaweed J Stubbs in Hairspray for The Grange Park: Pimlico Opera; and then simultaneously played Issachar in Joseph and The Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat at The London Palladium – alongside Alexandra Burke, Linzi Hateley & Jason Donovan – and most recently played Richie Walters in the Made At Curve production of A Chorus Line. During this time, André was headhunted to join the Faculty at Trinity Laban: Music & Dance, as a freelance choreographer and as a Technique Lecturer on their Honours Programmes.

Catherine Haber is Programme Leader for MSc/MFA Dance Science, a dancer and dance science researcher from Los Angeles, California. She is a Lecturer in Dance Science and the Module Leader of Research Lab in the MSc/MFS Dance Science programme.

Henrietta is co-director of Independent Dance (ID) since 2018, leading the curation of an artist-led, dance development and research organisation. As part of this role she is lead tutor of the MA/MFA Creative Practice: Dance Professional programme, at Trinity Laban, curating and running its two core modules.

Choreographer, Hip Hop International Judge, Mentor, Movement Artist, Facilitator and Dancer.

Matthew Harding is the artistic director for Urban Interface Dance UK bringing an alternative composition to Hip-Hop and Contemporary Dance in theatre, film, and alternative spaces.

Suzie Holmes is Head of Costume and Lecturer at Trinity Laban. She teaches across the BA and MA programmes within the fields of design, performance, and research methods. The focus of her design and teaching practice is upon the performing body’s scenographic relationship with its environment. Key to her collaborative work with choreographers is a fascination with the appearance and behaviour of materials animated by movement and light.

Stella is a dance artist and facilitator with a keen interest in exploring creative practices in health-based settings. Her enquiries into creativity, the body and wellbeing, empower participants individual explorations of their physical body, whilst supporting creative, emotional, and social confidence.