Staff A-Z

As a choreographer Matthew Harding has received awards for the work, he has produced both independently and with Urban Interface Dance UK. These productions have taken place at theatres throughout the UK and venues such as , Sadlers Wells, Royal Albert Hall, The Place, Brighton Fringe and Internationally.

Matthew Harding is also the founder and director for Wolfpack Dance Collective UK.

Matthew Harding is a well-respected international Judge for Hip Hop International Judging at competitions within Europe and Internationally.

Suzie holds a BA (Hons) English & Drama, from Goldsmiths, University of London, an MA Critical Studies: Visual Art & Theatre, from Wimbledon School of Art, and is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.

Collaborating regularly with international choreographers, design credits include works for: Rosemary Butcher, Maresa Von Stockert, Protein Dance, CandoCo Dance Company, Phoenix Dance Theatre, Transitions Dance Company, and Lizzi Kew Ross & Co.

The focus of Suzie’s design and teaching practice is upon the performing body’s scenographic relationship with its environment. Key to her design-led work with choreographers is a fascination with the appearance and behaviour of materials animated by movement and light. In 2024, her costume designs were worn for the Design Museum’s opening of The World of Tim Burton exhibition.

Stella has 20 years’ experience as a dance artist: performing nationally and internationally, teaching extensively in schools, colleges, community and health settings. She also leads professional development opportunities with teachers, dance artists, and professional dance companies.

She is Artist-in-Residence at Great Ormond Street Hospital for children, where she engages children and their families to find joy in moving. She also leads Breathe Dance at Guys & St Thomas’ hospital, and Dancing for Health at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance developed with Headway the Brain Injury association.

Stella worked with artist Lucy Evans to choreograph I grew out of that a long time ago, a duet exploring reflections from creative interventions in adults living with dementia. She has had international success with award winning dance film Porcelain (Directed by Roswitha Chesher) featuring the relationship of a married couple in their 60s.

As faculty at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance, Stella lectures on the soft and hard skills of teaching dance, within education, community, and inclusive practice.

His choreographic work has been shown at the National Theatre in Belgrade, Madlenianum Opera & Theatre, Serbian National Theatre Novi Sad, National Theatre Sarajevo, Festival Velenje, Music Center in Montenegro, Zagreb Dance Center, National Opera and Ballet of Macedonia and the Šibenik Dance Festival, amongst others.

Aleksandar was Acting Director of Belgrade Culture Centre (2019-2023) and Artistic Director of BELEF the Belgrade Summer Festival (2017-2022). He is a Professor and a founder of the Belgrade Dance Institute, President of Association of Professional Ballet Dancers, Choreographers and Ballet Pedagogues of Serbia and Director of Dance Magazine Stepart. He has also written three books of poetry. He is currently an ensemble pedagogue at the National Theater in Belgrade and the Music Center in Montenegro

Photo credit: Belkisa Beka Abdulovic

For the past few years, Kate has been creating a series of dance scores for use in everyday situations, with a particular focus on relationships and mood. Where and how these scores exist, in terms of location and medium, is an important aspect of this work.

Her current collaboration, with artist Lili Murphy-Johnson and dancers Kirsty Alexander and Lily Paine, is an exploration of the act of “doing” through film and dance and uses film as an integral part of the choreographic process.

Previous collaborations have been with dance artist Marina Collard, poet Carol Watts, and film maker Ros Cheshire.

As a dance animateur for Yorkshire Dance, Swindon Dance, Cambridgeshire and Rambert, Kate has taught in a variety of community settings. She has also taught at Barnsley College of Art, Lewisham College and London Contemporary Dance School.

As an educator, David lectures on the Bachelor and Master Programmes at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance where he specializes in choreological studies based on the body of work developed by Rudolf Laban. Beyond academia, David offers movement masterclasses, workshops and retreats internationally since 2018. He also contributes his expertise in yoga to various movement communities including the Ferus Animi / Terra Nova collective.

From the lens of social justice, David founded kindredpacket, a grassroots movement uplifting East and South East Asian (ESEA) communities through culturally sensitive practices of wellbeing. As part of Britain’s East and South East Asian Network (the organization that initiated ESEA Heritage Month in the UK), he delivers Active Bystander Trainings across England and Wales. His work with queer communities include being a facilitator for We Create Space, a global platform advocating wellness for queer leaders and being on the advisory board for Rendez-Vous Dance, championing LGBTQIA+ stories, past and present through performance and education.

David’s research interests include:

• the relationship between body and home
• queering theoretical and pedagogical praxis of movement
• Eastern philosophies of movement and spirituality
• movement as a social practice of embodied placemaking

Qualifications and awards:

• BA (Hons) Architecture, University of Sheffield
• MA Dance Performance, Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance (Distinction)
• Specialist Diploma in Choreological Studies (Distinction)
• 2014 Sylvia Bodmer Award for Outstanding Achievement in Choreological Studies

Lizzi graduated with a B.ED, Hons (Roehampton) and Diploma and MA in Choreography (LCDS). In 2021 she received an award for teaching at the Worshipful Company of Educators and has been awarded a grant from the Franklin Trust for professional development. In 2022 she was given a the Ruth Etchells fellowship at St Johns College Durham.
She regularly receives Arts Council grants for projects with LKR & Co ranging from site specific work under Waterloo Station and a dance film on a lighthouse.

A defining feature of both Lizzi’s teaching style and with her company LKR & Co, is its collective and collaborative approach. It unites musicians dancers, video artists and other artists to create a diverse team spirit and dynamic. This collaborative process not only enriches the artistic output but also promotes a shared ownership of the work, resulting in performances that resonate deeply with audiences.

Research Interests

Lizzi is interested in the nature of the poetic image and how it translates through different art forms.
She supervises BA and MA students in their research projects.

Gary Lambert trained at the Royal Ballet School and worked with the Royal Ballet as a graduate. In 1983 he joined London Festival Ballet (now English National Ballet) dancing for two years, working with choreographers Glen Tetley, Alvin Ailey, Sir Frederick Ashton, Roland Petit and Christopher Bruce before moving on to Rambert Dance Company in 1985. Whilst with Rambert, he worked and danced in works by Richard Alston, Merce Cunningham, Glen Tetley, Robert North, Ian Spink, Michael Clarke, Christopher Bruce, Lucinda Childs, Siobhan Davies, Ashley Page and Laurie Booth, receiving national and international acclaim for his performances as a dancer. In addition to dancing, he has choreographed works for Rambert Dance Company and Phoenix Dance Company, where he was Assistant Artistic Director from 1993-96,  presenting  works in Phoenix Dance Company’s Repertory nationally and internationally, such as the Cultural Olympiad in Atlanta 1996. Other commissions include works for English National Ballet, Scottish Dance Theatre, Ricochet Dance Company, Loop Dance Company, Tambuka Dance Company (the National Contemporary Dance Company of Zimbabwe) Ffin Dance and Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance.

His independent roles such as choreographer, teacher and performer, led him to co-establish the company Small Axe in 1992, an Arts Council of England project funded Dance Company, with a national touring and educational profile. The company received acclaim for the work Cold Ground Drifting at the International Choreographic Competition in Groningen, the Netherlands in 1994, winning first prize. His collaborations include projects as a dancer and choreographers with the likes of artists such as Laurie Booth, Requair, Storm Garden, Actual Factual, 97-98 and Rosemary Butcher, Scan, 2001. In 1992 he choreographed Meantime for the BBC 2 Dance House Season, directed by Peter Mumford with music by John Mark Gowen. In 1994 his choreography and improvised performance Five Dances for the Five Floor Project was a response to Hans Peter Kuhn’s sound installation for Art Angel. In 1995 he choreographed Movements in 8 for Phoenix Dance Company, in collaboration with the Jazz composer Orphy Robinson and Artistic Director Maggie Morris.

In 1999 Gary presented XXL, an original digital site-specific performance work at the Arches Glasgow, commissioned by the Tramway in collaboration with DJ’s Carl Cox and Dave Clarke, setting an installation dance performance within a clubnite environment. Degrees of Freedom a solo work, commissioned by Edinburgh Dance Base was performed at the Edinburgh festival in 2004. It was performed again that year at Laban’s Bonnie Bird Theatre and again in 2005 at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, summer collection, at the Millennium Theatre, Cardiff and Paris. In 2010 the solo was re-worked for the Albany Theatre, Deptford as part of “Our Lives in Dance”, an evening of solo works by independent dance artists. Gary was previously Senior Lecturer in Contemporary Dance in 2004 at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance where he has worked since 1998, teaching Cunningham based technique, Choreography and creating commissioned works. He was Guest Artist at White Oak, Jacksonville University MFA programme in the USA. In 2012 he was appointed Creative Director at Tanz@Namedy, establishing a dance programme for the Princess Von Hohenzollern at Burg Namedy, Germany, presenting works by European and British artists. He was awarded the Howard Gilman Fellowship in 2013 by the Howard Gilman foundation, to undertake a MFA in Choreography at Jacksonville University, Florida, which he completed in 2015. He is currently engaged in developing new work in response to his research.

A British Council and Arts Council England recipient, Howard Davies Emerging Directors Grant Recipient, One Dance UK DAD Trailblazer Fellow, Marion North Recipient. She was on the choreographic team for the 2012 Olympics Opening Ceremony (NHS Section) and is a member of the internationally acclaimed performance collective Hot Brown Honey.

With over 23 years of teaching experience, she has worked and collaborated with a multitude of diverse artists and organizations. A well sought-out teacher, choreographer, judge and host, she has established herself as one of UK’s finest and a highly respected role model within the Hip Hop dance community.

Yami previously worked at RAD, UEL , and Irie Dance theatre.