Staff A-Z

Aleksandar Ilić graduated in 2012, after completing an MA in Choreography. Before studying at Trinity Laban, he was a First Soloist at the National Theatre in Belgrade, Serbia.

Kate teaches choreography and performance on Trinity Laban’s BA Contemporary Dance Programme.

Kate studied fine art at Goldsmiths and choreography at TrinityLaban. As a choreographer, she works collaboratively across art forms and has exhibited kinetic sculpture at CPG London; film at the One Take Film Festival, Zagreb; and choreography at Tripspace London.

David Kam is a London-based movement artist and educator sharing embodied practices of connection from the lens of joy, wonder, and freedom. Blending the worlds of architecture, dance and spirituality, David pitches movement as an expression of party and protest to offer a space for others to find home in their bodies and to explore ways of moving together towards collective action and transgenerational healing. He collaborates with various leading institutions to offer uniquely curated wellness experiences.

Susan is an award-winning choreographer, performer and teacher. Her career as a dancer took her from Sydney to Tokyo, New York, Madrid, Barcelona, and now London. Her choreographies have been programmed in festivals and theatres in Czech Republic, Chile, Italy, Spain and the UK. She teaches in schools and academies and has been guest teacher for companies in Spain, Sweden and Germany. Since living in London, she has taught at London Contemporary Dance School, Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance, London Studio Centre and Rambert School of Ballet and Contemporary Dance as well as leading open professional classes at The Place.

www.susankempster.com

Gary teaches Cunningham-based technique across the undergraduate dance programme at Trinity Laban, and also on the MA Dance Performance (Transitions Dance Company) Programme.

He is Component Leader for BA1 Choreography and the OYP Devising and Performance. Gary also devises and choreographs work for BA1 Performance Project and BA3 commissioned works.

Research interests and areas of supervision:

• Improvisation  –  European free improvisation (music), Contact improvisation (dance)
• Performance studies – spatialised musicking, interdisciplinary, and improvisational
• Performance / research practice – intersecting with Ecology (deep ecology), cognition (embodied and enactive), society (socially engaged practice)

Yami is a multidisciplinary artist, a movement and theatre director,  working at the intersection of dance, theatre and cross-arts. Between making her own work, Yami deliver workshops and mentor.

Wayne McGregor is a multi-award-winning British choreographer and director, internationally renowned for his physically testing choreography and groundbreaking collaborations across dance, film, music, visual art, technology and science. He is Artistic Director of Wayne McGregor | Random Dance, Resident Company at Sadlerʼs Wells, and Resident Choreographer of The Royal Ballet.

Florence has been the Senior Costume Technician at Trinity Laban since 2019. Florence previously worked as a freelance Designer and Maker, costuming work choreographed by Samir Kennedy, Patricia Okenwa, Theo Lowe, Lizzie Kew-Ross and Theo Clinkard among many others. Recent collaborators at Laban include Hetain Patel, Hagit Yakira and H2 Dance for Transitions Dance Company.

Henry is a freelance dance maker, performer and teacher. He has performed for many independent choreographers and companies in New York and Europe including Susanne Linke, Reinhild Hoffmann, Keely Garfield, Kirstie Simson, KJ Holmes, Gaby Agis, Charles Linehan, Kate Brown, Rosemary Butcher and Jonathan Burrows Group. Henry is currently a member of Siobhan Davies Dance and was awarded the 2003 Critics Circle National Dance Award For Outstanding Male Artist. He continues to study Yoga and the Alexander Technique and is a registered Craniosacral Therapist.

Hilary’s teaching methodology has evolved into a multi-layered construct, which has strongly been influenced by her studies in Psychology and Pilates. The issue of body – mind integration in the learning process of dancers is at the centre of her approach. In essence, she places great emphasis on sound embodiment of movement principles to enhance technical and artistic excellence, but strives to create a learning environment that acknowledges “the essence of movement as means of expression that could reverberate on a much deeper level in terms of the well-being of the individual”. Hilary currently enjoys teaching master classes and is actively pursuing her interest in dance health and psychology by attending conferences and workshops arranged by Dance UK, IADMS and the Pilates Foundation.

Dr Vanio Papadelli is a movement and theatre artist and educator. Her practice fuses elements from Eastern European Laboratory theatre and dance-theatre; yoga; somatic movement; postmodern dance; Laban/Bartenieff; Contact Improvisation; and experimental theatre. Key inspirations and interests include feminist theories, ecological philosophies, surrealism, ritual and phenomenology of performance.

Since graduating from Bretton Hall in the late 90s where she trained in Lighting Design, Fay has toured nationally and internationally as production manager for Shobana Jeyasingh, Carol Brown Dances, Edge, and for festivals like Skin Shakers (Southbank) and What Now (ID).