Staff A-Z

Liz is currently a specialist performing arts physio with Trinity Labanand works on ‘Matida The Musical’ in the West End. She was the head physio for Disney’s ‘The Lion King’ for 3 years. Outside of dance, she has worked with Middlesbrough Football club, players from the UAE Pro League, and the National Basketball Association in the USA. Her special interests are the foot and ankle, injury reduction, stretching and flexibility, and return-to-sport/dance rehabilitation. She teaches various ‘Foot and Ankle’ programmes, including courses on foot strength, and dance-specific foot and ankle injuries. These courses now run internationally.

Liz has worked in private sports injury clinics, falls prevention services, and is a qualified DMA Clinical Pilates instructor. She has written articles on dance injury prevention for ‘The Stage’ and has been a guest with many different podcasts and conferences, talking about her work with performers, and feet! Liz also visits dance companies and schools as a consultant physio, seeing their more complex foot and ankle injuries, having worked with both Elmhurst, and the English National Ballet in this capacity. She has also diagnosed and rehabilitated injuries in world champion Irish Dancers (often over Zoom), returning them to competition level.

He was Joint Principal and Designated Officer previously. As Director of Laban between 2003 and 2005, Anthony played a key role in the merger (2005) with Trinity College of Music which formed Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance, the largest of the conservatoires in UK higher education.

His focus has been, and remains, the development of Trinity Laban as an international hub for the development of performing artists who will lead their art forms throughout the first half of the 21st century.

Anthony Bowne’s education in dance at (then) Laban in the early 1980s is complemented by an honours degree in Economics from the University of Southampton and an MSc from the Bartlett School of Architecture at University College London. Anthony’s early career was as an economist in the motor industry. Later, he held an academic position at the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts.

His experience as an educator was balanced with creative expertise as a lighting designer for both theatre and architecture. Projects include theatre design for Matthew Bourne’s Adventures in Motion Pictures, Hong Kong Ballet, Rosemary Butcher, the Cholmondeleys and the National Theatre of Taiwan and architectural design for the World Finance Centre in Shanghai, Chijms in Singapore and Joyce retail stores in Hong Kong.

Utilising his training and experience in the performing arts, economics and architecture, Anthony led the project to realise the Stirling Prize-winning Laban Building which opened in 2003. He acted as Arts Council England capital project mentor on the Lottery funded New Vic theatre and served on the Rambert Dance Company Property Committee for the company’s relocation to London’s South Bank.

Anthony currently chairs both the Finance and Remunerations Committees of London Higher, the ‘umbrella’ organisation for London’s universities and higher education colleges. He is also Deputy Chair of Conservatoires UK and Chair of the UCAS Advisory Group for Universities and Colleges Admissions. Other board memberships include One Dance UK, the Bonnie Bird Choreography Fund, HEFCE’s Teaching Quality and Student Experience Strategic Committee, and Blackheath Halls (Chair). He has served on both the DCMS Dance Forum and the All Party Parliamentary Dance Group and is Visiting Chair of Dance for Lasalle College of the Arts in Singapore and Visiting Professor of City University, London.

Qualifications

University College London, Bartlett School of Architecture, EMSC Architecture 1992
Laban Centre for Movement and Dance, Post-Graduate Diploma, 1982
University of Southampton, BSc (Hons) Economics, 1977

Previous experience

Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance
Joint Principal and Designated Officer, 2005-2010

Laban
Chief Executive, 2003-2005

Laban
Deputy Chief Executive, 1994-2003

Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts
Senior Lecturer, Theatre Lighting Design, 1996-1998 (sabbatical position)
Leading the teaching of theatre and architectural lighting design and developing the Academy’s first Master’s programme

Laban Centre for Movement and Dance
Senior Lecturer, 1987-1994
Lecturing in lighting design and theatre production skills
Course Co-ordinator of Advanced Performance Course
Technical Direction and Management of Transitions Dance Company

Laban Centre for Movement and Dance
Lecturer, 1983-1986
Lecturing in lighting design and theatre production skills

Rover Cars
Senior Financial Analyst, 1979-1981
Leading a team of Financial Analysts

Rover Cars
Financial Analyst, 1978-1979

Professional Lighting Design (selection 1993 – 2003)

2003
Rite of Spring, Natalie Weir, Hong Kong Ballet, tour

2002
Now Blind Yourself, Jan De Schynkel,  The Place Theatre, London
Slow-Still-Divided, Rosemary Butcher, Tanzquartier, Vienna

2001
Chijmes, Singapore (architectural)
Rite of Spring, Natalie Weir, Lyric Theatre, Hong Kong

2000
Vast Desert, National Theatre, Taiwan

1999
World Finance Centre, Shanghai, China (architectural)

1998
Joyce Department Store, Central, Hong Kong (architectural)
Dusk ’til Dawn, Hong Kong (architectural)
Joyce Department Store, Nathan Road, Hong Kong (architectural)

1997
Usa Cosa Rara (opera), Drama Theatre, HKAPA, Hong Kong
G’S Club, Shanghai, China (architectural)
Dance! Dance!! Dance!!!, Lyric Theatre, Hong Kong

1996
Spring Dance, Lyric Theatre, Hong Kong

1995
Swinger, Yolande Snaith
Car, The Cholmondeleys
Fierce/Pink/House, Della Davidson

1994
Metalcholica, The Cholmondeleys
Forgotten Voices, Fin Walker
Silence of the Pestle Sound, National Theatre, Taiwan

1993
Carmina Burana, National Theatre, Taiwan
Silent Tongues, Fin Walker
Set the Night on Fire, Three’s Company, Royal Festival Hall

Awards

Anthony was one of 10 lighting designers chosen as ‘ones to watch’ in ‘Lighting Dimensions’ (USA) and won a London Dance and Performance Award in 1992 for the lighting design of Yolande Snaith’s No Respite.

Professional activities / memberships

Current

• Board member and Chair of Remunerations and Finance Committees, London Higher
• Board member One Dance UK
• Member of Universities UK
• Member of HEFCE’s Teaching Quality and Student Experience (TQSE) Strategic Committee
• Deputy Chair, Conservatoires UK
• Chair, UCAS Conservatoires Advisory Group for Universities and Colleges Admissions System (UCAS Conservatoires)
• Board member, Bonnie Bird Choreography Fund
• Guest Professor, Lasalle College of the Arts, Singapore
• Chair, Blackheath Halls, Greenwich, London
• Visiting Professor, City University London

Past

• Member of Mayor of London’s Cultural Strategy Group
• Board member, Bird College, Sidcup
• Mentor for Arts Council England Lottery Capital Programme (Young Vic Theatre)
• Member, Scholarship Review Panel, Western Australia Academy for Performing Arts
• Chair, Cholmondeleys and Featherstoneshaughs dance companies
• Member of DCMS Dance Forum
• Member, Property Committee, Rambert Dance Company
• Board member, Creative Lewisham
• Board member, Deptford Creative Village
• Degree Accreditation Panel member, Hong Kong Council for Academic Accreditation
• Validation Panel member, Open University validation of Lasalle College, Singapore
• Governor, Finnish Institute, London

Jasmine has an Honours Degree in Nutrition and a Post Graduate Diploma in Dietetics from the University of London. She has qualifications in teaching young people and adults and has undertaken training in group work and increasing motivation. She is registered as a dietitian with the Health Care Professions Council. Jasmine is an Accredited Nutritionist (Association for Nutrition) and is a High Performance registrant on the Sport and Exercise Nutrition  register (SENr). She has a particular interest in dance but has worked with athletes from a variety of backgrounds.

Her career in dance has deeply informed her work as a therapist. Kate holds an MFA in Choreography from the Ohio State University, an MA in Dance Ethnography from Gallatin University /TISCH in New York City and a BA in English from Bowdoin College in Maine, USA.

Alongside her clinic hours, Kate continues to work as a dancer, choreographer and teacher, combining her two passions through research. Kate’s practice is informed by her career in dance and her own experience of receiving a wide range of treatments within that time, she feels the two practices feed one another and create further curiosity about the performing artists’ body.

In May 2023, Natasha joined Trinity Laban Health, transitioning from her role in the Healthcare Team at The Royal Ballet. Previously, she served as a dedicated soft tissue therapist and lecturer within the Physical Support Team at London Contemporary Dance School.

Natasha’s professional journey is underscored by a profound interest in injury epidemiology. Natasha’s passion for understanding the health and well-being of dancers blossomed during her professional training in contemporary dance. This curiosity subsequently led her towards completing a Master’s degree in Professional Somatic Arts Practice and qualifying as a soft tissue therapist from NLSSM (London). Furthering her expertise, Natasha pursued a certificate in Dance Movement Psychotherapy at Goldsmiths, University.

Amelia originally trained as a ballet dancer at The Royal Ballet School and she went on to graduate from Kings College London with an MSc in Physiotherapy in 2018. She also holds an MSc in Dance Science from Trinity Laban. She has additional qualifications in acupuncture, trauma radiology and is working towards an advanced physiotherapy masters.

Alongside her physiotherapy work Amelia has also worked as a Dance Science Educator for organisations such as the Royal Academy of Dance and One Dance UK. She continues to enjoy a supervisory and educational role within the NHS.

Colette is a dance specialist physiotherapist at Trinity Laban. Through her work she has treated pre-professional and professional dancers from a variety of genres, West-End artists and musicians. She has worked with elite GB and international athletes, as well as football clubs. Colette has extensive understanding of injury prevention and rehabilitation and believes in a holistic approach to the care of patients. This is reflected in her interest in health and performance psychology and how these principles influence injury and rehabilitation.

In addition to her marketing and communications work, Kira has supported numerous artists and collectives through bid-writing and fundraising, helping secure funding for projects by Touching Bass, George Riley, Axel Kaner-Lidstrom and more. Between 2020 and 2023, she managed the 11-piece jazz ensemble Levitation Orchestra, during which time she negotiated a two-album deal with a leading independent jazz label, organised a sold-out album launch, and booked the group’s first national tour and international performance.