Icy Ice 54 – Thursday Night Hype! General Level (Thu)
Ayshen a.k.a. Icy Ice 54 is a Freelance Dance Artist and practitioner who has been teaching in Academic and Community settings across London for over 16 years. Ayshen is the Artistic Director of Dynamic Eclipse Arts (D.E Arts), founded at Roehampton University in 2003 while studying her BA (Hons) in Dance Studies. Ayshen is currently the Lead Choreographer at NewVIc College, leading the colleges’ Dance Company NDC.
Ayshen has created a technique style called D.Eology, which is a combination of Contemporary and Hip Hop foundations, with influences from different culture dances surrounding her while growing up and training.
Ayshen is passionate about community dance, outreach projects and #SupportingTheArts either by working behind the scenes and working closely with schools, colleges, artist and local companies to promote dance and well-being from a grass root movement. Ayshen works in a creative way to deliver fun, high-energy, accessible dance sessions / workshops to all ages and abilities, while pushing themselves and learning about the movement and music in the session.
Elly Braund – Contemporary Beginners (Sat)
Elly danced for Richard Alston Dance Company for nine years, touring works by Alston and Martin Lawrence on stages and festivals internationally. In 2019 Elly danced in Night of 100 solos: a Centennial Event performing in commemoration of Merce Cunningham at the Barbican. Elly has also worked with Joseph Toonga, Kerry Nicholls and Travis Clausen-knight. She joined the cast of Inala:A Zulu Ballet for their west end premiere and Asia tour, choreographed by Mark Baldwin, produced by Sister’s Grimm.
As a dance practitioner Elly has regularly led company class for RADC and Protein Dance and led workshops for DAP Festival di Danza a Pietrasanta, Tanzfaktur Cologne, the Virginia Arts festival. She is a teacher on the Rambert Dance Artists in Residence faculty and teaches contemporary technique at the Royal Ballet School and London Contemporary Dance School.
Vicki Busfield – Ballet Beginners (Thu)
Vicki Busfield is a dance artist, teacher, community practitioner, project manager and choreographer with a broad range of experience working with children, adults and older adults in both private and community settings. Vicki trained at the Northern Ballet School and London Contemporary Dance School and holds a first-class BA (Hons) degree in contemporary dance. Through her training, Vicki has gained extensive knowledge in a variety of dance techniques and holds accredited dance teacher status in five disciplines and is also a freelance exam coach and examiner. She has performed work by Kerry Nicholls, Marc Brew, Aletta Collins, Frauke Requardt and Victoria Marks and was a dancer in the London Olympics 2012 Opening Ceremony, choreographed by Kenrick ‘H20′ Sandy of Boy Blue Entertainment.
Working internationally in New Zealand (NZ) and America, Vicki has choreographed work for large-scale live performances and dance film. As Head of Performing Arts for a secondary school in NZ, she devised and implemented a whole school dance programme, and after coming to the UK, she ran her own ballet school in Surrey. Vicki was a choreographer for the London Lord Mayor’s Show 2015 celebrating inclusive arts. She also works for Green Candle Dance Company managing and delivering projects in education and community settings, including working with children and older adults with and without disabilities, people with dementia and older people with age-related conditions.
Vicki teaches on both the adults’ and children’s classes at Trinity Laban, as part of the Children and Young People’s, and Public Engagement dance programmes.
Katie Cambridge – Contemporary Level 1
Summer Term Katie is teaching: Wed 19 and 26 April; 3 May; 14, 21 and 28 June
Katie trained at London Contemporary Dance School and graduated in 2009. During this time, she worked with Marc Brew and Colin Poole, and toured works by Siobhan Davies and Merce Cunningham. Katie joined Tavaziva Dance as an apprentice in August 2009 and as a full-time dancer in September 2010. She has danced, toured, and taught for the company over the last five years. More recently, Katie worked as a freelance dancer for Mad Dogs Dance Theatre, Pagrav Dance, Divya Kasturi, ArtsCross, SmallPetitKlein and Moxie Brawl. Katie has taught extensively throughout her career, both in education and to professionals, and is Dance Artist for Rosie Kay and New Arts Club.
Luisa D’Ambrosio – Pilates-based Body Conditioning General Level (Sat)
Luisa teaches dance technique, improvisation, and choreographic workshops at degree, postgraduate and vocational levels in the UK and Italy. She is a dancer and has worked for several choreographers including A. Vahla, R. Garrison, Rebecca Skelton, and L. Latour, as well as making her own work. She also choreographs for the theatre, collaborating with various theatre directors at Italia Conti in London and in Rome. After training in contemporary dance, Luisa D’Ambrosio trained as a Pilates teacher at The Place with The Pilates Foundation. She currently teaches Evening Classes at The Place, and Saturday Classes as part of the Young Dancers’ programme. She also works independently as an instructor and lectures in Pilates and Body Conditioning.
Natalie Gibbs – Contemporary General Level (Sat)
Natalie is a freelance dance artist. She has a Postgraduate Diploma in Community Dance from Trinity Laban and has a BA (Hons) QTS in Physical Education specialising in Dance. Natalie has 12 years of experience in teaching Dance and Physical Education in Secondary Schools, across all Key Stages to pupils of all abilities. Alongside her teaching, Natalie works as a choreographer and dancer performing in a mixture of projects including work with Stan Won’t Dance, Dance United, and as part of Resolution!
Natalie joined Rambert Dance Company in 2009, working as an animateur, teaching educational workshops based on current repertoire, and creating pieces within schools. Natalie has taught for Greenwich Dance Agency, working in both primary and secondary schools, creating a site-specific piece, and teaching an adult fitness group.
Natalie currently works at Trinity Laban, where she teaches creative dance classes for children, and contemporary technique classes for adults.
Liora Goldwater – Ballet General Level (Tue) and Ballet Level 1 (Thu)
Liora Goldwater is a professional dance artist working in the disciplines of contemporary dance and ballet. She trained at Northern Ballet School and then at the London Contemporary Dance School obtaining a BA (Hons) in Contemporary Dance. During her training, Liora performed with the Birmingham Royal Ballet and Manchester City Ballet. She also performed pieces by Kerry Nicholls, Richard Alston, Jan de Schynkel, and Stephen Petronio.
Liora was a founding member of the dance company Made by Katie Green. She performed with the company in the UK and Europe and was a part of the company’s educational outreach programme, taking dance into various schools and colleges. She has also performed on various projects, including projects for Charlotte Spencer, Laura McGill, and Akane Abe.
Liora teaches ballet, contemporary, ballet tone, Pilates and vinyasa flow yoga around the London area.
Julian Lewis – Contemporary Level 1
Summer Term Julian is teaching: Wed 10, 17 and 24 May; 7 June
Julian Lewis graduated from Trinity Laban in 2013 and has since performed across the UK & Europe with EDGE Dance Company, Bowie Live and Ffin Dance. Julian has also performed for Marvel Studios, Pinot! The Musical, Cascade Dance Theatre and the London 2012 Olympic Closing Ceremony, as well as projects at venues including the Royal Opera House, the Royal Albert Hall for BBC Proms, The Old Vic Tunnels and The Place. Julian is the artistic co-director of Traceworks Dance, with whom he has performed, as well as choreographed and produced a wide variety of professional projects.
In 2019, he also completed his masters degree, fulfilling the role of rehearsal director on Celebration Event – a project commemorating Merce Cunningham’s Centennial performed by students at London Contemporary Dance School. Julian is passionate about blending his professional practice with the wider community, and he regularly delivers classes, workshops and engagement projects for a variety of groups across London and further afield. He teaches ballet and contemporary technique, and draws from his experience to maximise his students’ potential in technical precision, musicality and individual artistry and style.
Shamita Ray – Yoga General Level (Sat)
Shamita Ray initially worked as a dancer and choreographer, specialising in contemporary dance and Bharatanatyam – Indian classical dance. She started practising Iyengar yoga as a means to increase flexibility and complement dance training. A chance wandering into an Ashtanga class one day turned what was, until then, a mere hobby, into a lifelong passion, rivalling her love for dance. She went on to study both in India and in the UK with international teachers, including David Swenson, with whom she completed Ashtanga teacher training, and Lara Baumann, with whom she completed 500-hour teacher training. She most recently completed Advanced Teacher Training with Ana Forrest.