Artistic Director
LIZZI KEW ROSS is a choreographer, performer and teacher.

She trained at Roehampton University and London Contemporary Dance School graduating with a B Ed and MA in choreography.

She has been involved in performing, teaching and choreographing in many different contexts: working in theatre companies as a movement director, choreographing musicals with commissions for Arts Theatre Cambridge, performances for Yorkshire Arts with mime artist Geoffrey Stevenson, performance work in Uganda and cabarets for Hilton Hotels.

Lizzi works at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance and has worked at The Place, Birkbeck College, Guildhall for the Opera Course and at Arts Ed in Chiswick.

Recent choreographic credits include: December 1952, the graphic score by Earle Brown for Chelsea Space, curated by Cally Spooner, and also performed at the South Bank as part of Move, Choreographing You at the Hayward Gallery in 2010,
Musical Director, Ian Mitchell; Harmony of the Spheres at The Royal Observatory, Greenwich, directed by Stephen Montague; Colourscape on Clapham Common also directed by Stephen Montague; Mapping the Hand, an installation with dancers in response to the artist, Jake Lever’s work for Wallspace, Gallery London Wall; Space Between the Notes for Excellent at Sadler’s Wells. Also, with Douglas Finch, she co- directed In the Moment Improvisation Festival, with 350 performers over three days in site-specific locations.

Lizzi’s work abroad includes teaching at Taiwan University of the Arts, community dance projects for drug charities in Hong Kong, and a research project with Leeds University and Shanghai Theatre School where she worked with Chinese
Opera performers.

Her latest work includes: Loss of breath at Selfridges. as part of Project Ocean, and Speak but one word to me, a commission for Dance United and The Bulldog Trust in response to the William Morris exhibition at 2 Temple Place and performed at 2 Temple Place. Lizzi Kew Ross & Co also presented Please Visit The Churchyard at St. Vedast churchyard in June 2012, as part of Celebrate the City weekend, and Without Warning, a movement, sound and light piece. Without Warning, inspired by images in Brian Keenan’s memoir, An Evil Cradling, premiered at Laban Theatre in 2010 and had a 2 week run at The Old Vic Tunnels, London in February 2012.

Without Warning will be at the Belfast International Festival in November 2013 and, using the piece as source material, the company is developing an artist book app with Alpha-ville: Art, Tech, Music, Web Culture this year.

Producer
Martin Collins MA, MSc began dancing with the Splinters dance company before training in theatre at Lancaster University, Dance Theatre & Dance Science at Trinity Laban. He has worked as a performer with dance and theatre companies in the UK including Levantes Dance Theatre, Darren Ellis Dance, Ballet Boyz, Dukes theatre Company, Marlow Theatre, The Grange Park Opera, English National Opera, Tate Modern and the Nigel Charnock Company. He has also performed in a number of different feature films for the UK and Japan, TV and site-specific works commissioned by the BBC, RM Europe, and Independent British Film.

Martin has produced work for a number of prestigious national and international platforms including British Dance Edition, Sadler’s Wells, South Bank, the Royal Festival Hall, Roubaix and Burgos festivals. This has been done in collaboration with companies such as Lost Dog, Random Dance, Company of Elders, Royal Ballet School, Shobana Jeyasing, Henri Oguike Dance Company, Darren Ellis Dance, Pina Bausch Company, and Sarah Linstra.

Martin is currently the Company Director for Darren Ellis Dance, Artstrust (Production Company), and managing the Centre for Advanced Training at Trinity Laban.

Laura Moody is a cellist, vocalist and theatre performer from London. Since graduating from the University of York and Trinity College of Music she has forged a singular path, performing all over the world as an avant-singer songwriter and multi-skilled interdisciplinary performer. Fascinated not only with words and songwriting but also with sounds, noises and textures she eschews laptops and loop pedals to explore what is possible using only solo cello and voice to create unique, acoustic, avant-pop music. She looks to combine the two instruments in interesting and often physical, even theatrical ways composing what she believes to be essentially pop songs, although nobody else ever seems to agree with this definition. Her songs are influenced by the many genres of music she has been involved with in her professional career including beatboxing, electronica, contemporary and classical music and various kinds of pop music.  Having achieved much international acclaim as a long-standing member of innovative string quartet the Elysian Quartet, which is known for its pioneering performances and recordings of contemporary classical, experimental and improvised music, she has also toured world-wide as a member of physical theatre string ensemble The Gogmagogs and with the Meredith Mork Ensemble. All these elements are brought together in Laura’s solo work, as The Arts Desk noted of a recent performance, “it seemed almost as if she had taken every musical influence that had come her way and put them in a blender...certainly extraordinary and sometimes disturbing. But what surprised me most ...was just how often it became mesmerising.” Laura released an EP of her music on her own label in 2008 and is currently working on her debut album to be released later this year. www.lauramoodymusic.com

Costume Designer
Susan Kulkarni, MA (Oxon), read English at Somerville College, Oxford University, and undertook a postgraduate course in Costume Design at RADA. She has over 13 years’ experience designing for dance, film, TV and theatre. She recently designed costumes for Angus Balbernie and James Wilton’s choreography for Verve, Leeds School of Contemporary Dance and 'The Look-Out' at Royal Festival Hall, curated by Kerry Nicholls. Susan is currently Head of Costume for Secret Cinema and Future Cinema’s large live events, ‘Prometheus’ and ‘Shawshank Redemption’. TV credits include ‘Downton Abbey II’ and Polliakof’s ‘Dancing on the Edge’. She has designed numerous projects for the National Theatre including ‘Detroit’,  ‘Cesario’ and ‘The Prince of Denmark’.

Designer
Mark specialises in designing and making printed arts material. Commissions have include work for: The Old Vic Tunnels, Tristan Bates Theatre, Southwark Playhouse and Trinity Laban, as well as choreographer Hagit Yakira, producer Tom Johanson and Independent Productions. For designs and photography projects visit MARKBROMLEY.NET    

Dancer
Megan trained at Laban and with Transitions Dance Company. Megan’s work in dance and movement as an artist, performer and teacher often involves working in varied contexts and with an expanded notion of what choreography can be. She has created work for gallery spaces and performed in the work of other artists in galleries such as Tate Modern and The Hayward. She has also worked in outdoor spaces and theatres for artists such as Stephen Koplowitz and Layla Rosa. Educational work included facilitation of projects for artists such Lea Anderson, Richard Alston and Luca Silvestrini and she has choreographed dance films as learning resources for the BBC.

Dancer
Simon graduated at Swiss Scuola Teatro Dimitri (BA in the Arts of physical theatre) and deepened after that his knowledge in contemporary dance at LABAN London (UK). Since then he is touring internationally as part of the movement theatre collective Spettatori and with the dance improvisation group 50collective. As a dancer, actor and musician he works for choreographers in London and New York and creates his own pieces in Switzerland. Since 2010 he is regularly involved in the work of David Zambrano.

Dramaturg & Associate Artist
Mary Ann is a writer and dance, performance dramaturg.  Originally from Canada, she came to the UK to do a PhD on the subject of political language.  Instead, she became immersed in performance art, worked with Augusto Boal, in particular his Image Theatre, and, later, trained as a screenwriter.  She combined the screen side with writing prose, her own short stories and text for artists making artist books.

It was freelance writing of treatments, and hence the ability to write proposals, that brought her back to performance, live art and dance.  Wanting an extra specificity of vocabulary for dance and movement, she did a range of choreology workshops with Rosemary Brandt. Now, fusing film, ‘story’, dramatic structure, artist books and installation art as well as a theatrical and dance vocabulary, she has a cross-media dance/performance dramaturgy practice.

With Lizzi Kew Ross & Co, she was the dramaturg for Without Warning, including curating the accompanying events. Currently, using the live performance as source material, she is taking the lead with Alpha-ville (digital developers and producers) to create Without Warning: the artist book as an app. Also currently, she is developing The Discussion Project with and for the company.

She is the Co-President of the dramaturgs’ network (d’n) and is a trustee for the theatre company Cardboard Citizens.  

A Laban BA (Hons), Transitions Dance Company and MSc Dance Science graduate, Sonia is a performer, teacher, choreographer and dance science researcher.   She performed extensively (live, TV and recording) with the electric voice dance company, La Bouche, as well as V-Tol, Nikky Smedley, Erica Stanton, Mothers of Invention, Lizzi Kew-Ross and with Athina Vahla on several site-specific productions.  She also directs her own company, Double Vision, with Amanda Gough.Now a part-time Senior Lecturer at TrinityLaban, Sonia also frequently teaches open professional/company classes and workshops in technique, dance fitness and wellness, and safe dance practice.