About

I am a Movement Director, Movement Coach, Director, Actor and Theatre Maker

I have developed a movement practice, to work with actors, over many years. I work with the actor on developing their own practice, or with the director to develop the language of their production, or with a company to create a piece of theatre from scratch.

My work with movement for actors, is both technical and imaginative. By freeing the body, and opening up the breath, the actor is free to make their own choices, in response to text, character or to make their own theatre. I have a complex and playful technique, that helps an actor be expressive, but can also work with observation, mask work and animal study.

I focus on the spine, on the use of space, gravity, and dynamic, and on movement qualities.

I work with students and actors to develop their creativity and enable them to make choices that they can use for character or playtext. As a Head of Movement at several Drama Schools and at the Stratford Festival Theatre Ontario in Canada, I have developed a system of movement training that combines technique with the imagination and enables actors and students to connect to breath and to text and to intention.

The core components of my practice are Pure Movement (from Trish Arnold and Siguurd Leder) and Ecole Internationale de Theatre, Jacques Lecoq. I deliver my work as individual classes, workshops, classes in Drama Schools, and as Movement Direction on Professional Productions.

I have developed a specific approach to Chorus Work- the Chorus Ancient and Modern.

I have developed site specific ensemble pieces, at The Pompidou Centre in Paris, and given workshops internationally in Lima, Madrid, Wroclaw, and Stratford Ontario.

The actor is at the heart of my work.

As a Movement Director I work collaboratively with Directors to find the language and the physical world of their productions.

My work as a theatre maker/director starts with a physical approach to text and to situation and seeks to build a language and story with the actors.

I believe actors are wonderful at movement and at moving: the spirit of play and of working with joy and curiosity develops physicality. Always. It is important to find the actor's way of moving through working with them.

My book “Physicality and Acting- Movement Training as a Catalyst for Change” will be published by Bloomsbury Methuen

You can download my full resume here