A Hommage to my teachers
I believe in knowing where you come form, whose shoulders you stand on. Here are some of the people who have been incredibly influential in me developing as an artists and a movement researcher.
Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen the creator of Body-Mind Centering
Mary Overlie, the originator of the Six Viewpoints, a phenomenological approach to the primordial materials of the stage.
Jens Johannsen and Friederike Tröscher and the guest teachers at Moveus — Body-Mind Centering certification programme I attended 2012-2014
Angus Balbernie, a choreographer trained by Steve Paxton and Mary Fulkerson in Contact Improvisation, Anatomical Release Technique and Composition
Rosalyn Maynard who gave me my first formal instruction in Somatics, based in the work of Else Gindler
Tiffany Strawson and David Peimar, tutors on Community Arts Practices at Dartington College of Arts
Benoire Ulrich a Movement Therapist and Eutony practitioner at a school for learning disabled children in Germany where I did a two month internship. Benoire allowed me to shadow him and gain practical insights into the practice of Movement Therapy for children outside the range of ‘normal’ development.
Cherionna Menzam-Sills, my former supervisor — a Continuum Movement teacher who learnt the work directly from Emilie Conrad. She is also a senior teacher of Craniosacral Biodynamics, perinatal psychology, birth trauma resolution.
Amber Copeland, a close colleague and friend, Certified Movement Analyst and fellow Somatic Movement Educator who taught me the Bartinieff Fundamentals.
Dr. Eila Goldhahn, a Dance and Movement Psychotherapist who studied the Discipline of Authentic Movement with Janet Adler and who generously shared this work with me
Shaolin Kung Fu instructor Iain Armstrong with whom I studied Tiger Crane Shaolin Kung Fu for three years as a child
Various teachers of internal martial arts (Nei Jia) who later clarified and extended my understanding of martial arts as an embodied practice