Professional Class
For dancers, dance artists and practitioners with a minimum of 3 years professional training
Challenging class for regional dancers, artists and practitioners.
Classes are led by class members and guest artists every Wednesday during term-time.
Wednesdays 10-11.30am
Book for the term and recieve a discount! See diary page for prices.
Guest artists Winter/Spring 2012
January 18th: Lyndsey McConville
Lyndsey trained at Laban and has worked with Yael Flexer & Nic Sandiland Dance and Digital Works (formerly Bedlam Dance Company) as a performer and regular teacher since 2001, creating and performing in five of the Company’s works. Lyndsey was a founder member of Kerry Nicholls Dance Company and has also performed with Shane Shambhu, Nunu Silva, Sirens Crossing, and Transitions.
Lyndsey participated in the Jerwood Bank Project 2008 with Siobhan Davies Dance Company.
Lyndsey has extensive teaching experience, teaching regularly for Laban, London Studio Centre, GDA, Independent Dance and The Place.
Company class teaching includes New Adventures, Scottish Dance Theatre, Billy Elliott, Diversions and Shobana Jeyasingh Dance Company.
Lyndsey’s class focuses on an energised and dynamic use of the body. Awareness of kinespherical boundaries is explored, fulfilling extension and expansion to the maximum without losing core connectivity and alignment.
February 1st & 8th: Adele Thompson
Adèle studied at CambridgeUniversity and LondonContemporaryDanceSchool and works as an independent dancer, choreographer, abseil dancer, stilt artist and teacher.
Adèle draws from her vast experience as a performer, choreographer and teacher of contemporary dance to deliver her energetic and eclectic sessions. Working with ease and a flow of movement through the body, her classes uncover a deep sense of connected movement and culminate in more complex sequences that are highly physical and technically and mentally challenging.
February 22nd: Susan Sentler
Susan is a senior lecturer at Trinity Laban teaching Graham technique and repertory, choreography and performance. She is a practicing choreographer, with a special interest in durational site-specific works. She was a dancer in the 1980's with the second company of Martha Graham, the Ensemble. Her technique classes explore the roots of the Graham technique coupled with a pedagogic curiosity of somatic practices. through this dialog the dancer can find an honest, individual and efficient way into the work; allowing the technique to resonate into the 21st century.
February 29th: Jennifer Lynn Crawford
Jennifer-Lynn studied in her native Canada prior to crossing the Atlantic to join EDge at LondonContemporaryDanceSchool. Currently she works as a lecturer at Northern School of Contemporary Dance, where she continues to pursue and develop her practice through pedagogy, performance, devising and scholarly writing.
Her class is based on a strong belief that dancing is a highly physical, and highly intelligent art, but most importantly, it is fun. Emphasis is placed on the body as sensory and tactile. Movement develops from shorter weight-based, whole-body phrases into more exploratory ideas and leads into substantial movement. End sequences can be quite dynamic and physical - they are based around the whole of the body as potential surface, and rely on the individual creating a strong relationship with the ground and their own intent.
