Michael Chekhov School

"Somewhere between the discipline of dance, yoga and the wildness of land-based ritual, I found my language: movement as a way of remembering, of becoming, of knowing. I’ve performed both as a dancer and as an actor, with companies such as the Royal Opera Ballet and the Young Vic Theatre in London and directed award-winning works across Europe. Over time, teaching became not a departure from performing, but a deeper entrance — a way to ask: What happens to a body when it listens more than it performs? I’ve led actor’s movement programs at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama (London), DePaul University (Chicago), and built a collaborative life-art practice in the high desert of New Mexico through a project called EARTHBODYPLACE — a return to slowness, to dance, to listening. Newly appointed Head of Movement at The American Academy of Dramatic Arts, in New York City, I am excited to deepen dialogue with fellow artists, and collaborate on projects that care about breath, community, land, and the unsayable. My work lives at the crossing of movement and meaning, where story enters through skin, where breath listens, where presence is an act of creation. I am a movement guide, artist, and teacher walking the path of poetic inquiry."