Gerrard Martin
Gerrard Martin is a dance artist: performer, choreographer, movement director, dance educator, yoga teacher and consultant.
Gerrard trained at De Montfort University, gaining a BA Hons in English Literature and Performing Arts; he continued his professional dance studies at the Northern School of Contemporary Dance, and went on to gain an MA in Choreography from the Central School of Ballet.
He has danced for Jose Agudo’s dance project with Akademi, toured nationally with Tavaziva Dance, Union Dance Company, and Phoenix Dance Company, as well as dancing for the West End production of the Lion King, Ballet Black, Aletta Collins Dance Company, State of Emergency, and Rosie Kay Dance Company. Gerrard has also danced for the National Theatre, toured internationally with the English National Opera, and the Royal Opera House.
Gerrard currently teaches on the Adult and Children Classes & Courses programme at The Place and has taught at Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts, the CAT programme at Trinity Laban, the University of Northampton, the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama.
Gerrard has choreographed for Sadler’s Wells, Tate Modern, Outbox Theatre, Longborough Opera, British Museum, Pegasus Opera, and the National Portrait Gallery. The West Bengal Federation of Dance, India commissioned Gerrard’s choreography for World Dance Day. He has also had work featured at the Tate Modern, The Place, Curve Theatre, The Royal College of Music, Lyric Hammersmith, National Portrait Gallery, RichMix, as well as the Dance West, A Time to Breathe, Emerge, Between the Lines, Southbank Urban, Let’s Dance International, and Cloud Dance Festivals.
Gerrard is the co-founder of Black Artists in Dance, (BAiD), the co-founder of the Pathways House Collective, a movement facilitator for Micro Rainbow, part of the first cohort of The Kerry Nicholls Dance Mentoring Programme and is a trained Yoga teacher.