Staff A-Z

Holly is a London-based dance artist, teaching for several organisations including Trinity Laban, Royal Academy of Dance, Aesop’s Dance to Health, Wee Movers and was an Artist in Residence at Greenwich Dance. Her teaching spans working with children and young people, to adults and older adults, in education, community settings and dance studios. Alongside her teaching work, Holly is Associate Programme and Primary Steps Coordinator at The Royal Ballet School and was previously Participation Producer for RISE Youth Dance.

Holly trained in Contemporary Dance at Trinity Laban and is currently studying for teaching qualifications with the ISTD.

In his early career, Daniel worked as a dancer with Michael Clark and Matthew Hawkins, as well as appearing as Tadzio in Britten’s Death In Venice at Glyndebourne.

After moving to the Big Apple, aged 20, Daniel worked for many years with Merce Cunningham, performing around the world in theatres including Palais Garnier & Théâtre de la Ville (Paris), Staatsoper unter den Linden & Schiller Theater (Berlin), the Roundhouse, the Barbican, Tate Modern (London), Festival Theatre (Edinburgh), Kennedy Center (DC), New York State Theater, Brooklyn Academy of Music, the Rose Theater & City Center (NYC); with musicians including Radiohead, John Paul Jones, Sigur Rós, Takehisa Kosugi & Sonic Youth.

He was a core member (actor, videographer, musician) of Marisela La Grave’s inter-media group Magnetic Laboratorium  for many years, and has worked with, (among others), Philippe Parreno, John Kelly, Irish Modern Dance Theatre, Paulina Olowska.

In 2013/14 he was Curator for the Dance Program for the exhibit Dancing Around the Bride: Cage, Cunningham, Johns, Rauschenberg, and Duchamp at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

In 2018 he performed a free-improv trio as part of the Hoping for Palestine benefit with guitarist Thurston Moore and drummer Steve Noble, with an audience of 1,700 people at London’s Roundhouse.

His 2019 staging projects for the Merce Cunningham Trust include Night of 100 Solos: A Centennial Event — for the occasion of Merce Cunningham’s 100^th birthday — at London’s Barbican, as well as staging Merce’s work on the Royal Ballet and Dance On Ensemble.

Rebecca is an artist-scholar specialising in the documentation and mediation of experience through digital media and methods. Her monograph Video Annotation in Dance and Performance (2025, Palgrave Macmillan) explores how we can work with time-based media to develop the analytic capacity and deep attention of human (rather than computational) subjects. The book examines video markup as a reflective, analytic, organisational, and publishing tool for performance scholarship.

Rebecca’s research also focuses on the impact of the arts on health and wellbeing. She is the Principal Investigator for The Language of Pain (2023-present), a co-produced research project exploring the expression of pain narratives through arts-based methods. Interested in the postphenomenological experience of our encounters with digital media, Rebecca also explores online and blended environments for community arts practice.

Rebecca is co-editor of special issues of Theatre, Dance and Performance Training (Training for Movement, Physical Activity and Health 2025) and International Journal of Performance Arts & Digital Media (Digital Annotation and the Understanding of Bodily Practices 2021). Rebecca’s work has been published in edited books (Intellect, Palgrave Macmillan, Routledge) and journals including International Journal of Performance Arts and Digital Media, International Journal of Qualitative Studies on Health and Well-being, and Theatre, Dance and Performance Training.

Rebecca is an editorial board member for International Journal of Performance Arts and Digital Media. She is a peer reviewer for International Journal of Performance Arts and Digital Media, International Review of Sport and Exercise Psychology, Journal of Dance and Somatic Practices, Journal of Dance Education, and Thinking, Skills and Creativity.

Rebecca has a BA (Hons) in Dance Theatre with First Class Honours from Laban (2008) and an MA in Dance with Distinction from London Contemporary Dance School (2010). She completed her PhD at the Centre of Dance Research in 2019.

Selected publications

Stancliffe, R. (2025). Video annotation in dance and performance: Attention, thinking and thinking. Palgrave Macmillan.

Stancliffe, R. (2025). The Language of Pain [project report]. Trinity Laban.

Stancliffe, R., Wakeling, K., Evans, L. & Howard, S. (2022) ‘Beyond the Walls’: The Artist-Researcher and Performative Dissemination. In R. Prior & T. Fischer (Eds.) Applied Arts and Health, Education and Community: Building Bridges. Intellect.

deLahunta, S., Rittershaus, D., & Stancliffe, R. (2021) Editorial. International Journal of Performance Arts and Digital Media 17(1), 1-6

Stancliffe, R. (2021) Differentiating (an)notation practices: an artist-scholar’s observation.  International Journal of Performance Arts and Digital Media 17(1), 69-85

Stancliffe, R. (2021) Moving (together) in a distributed setting: The impact of online music and dance delivery for older adults’ lived experience. In L. Bissell & L. Weir (Eds.) Performance in a Pandemic. Routledge.

Stancliffe, R. (2019) Training the Analytical Dance Eye: Video Annotation for Dance. Theatre, Dance and Performance Training 10(2), 273-288

Stancliffe, R. (2018) Video Annotation for the Articulation and Transmission of Dance. In S. Ellis, H. Blades, & C. Waelde, C. (Eds.) A World of Muscle, Bone and Organs. Coventry University, pp. 358-381.

Stancliffe, R. (2018) Mediating and Visualising Steve Paxton’s Material for the Spine. In S. Whatley, R. K. Cisneros, & A. Sabiescu (Eds.) Digital Echoes: Spaces for Intangible and Performance-based Cultural Heritage. Palgrave MacMillan, pp. 213-230

Wendy is a professional dance artist and educator whose career has included roles as a performer, mass movement choreographer, movement and rehearsal director, teacher, lecturer and company manager. Currently working primarily in education, she specialises in developing and supporting the delivery of the primary curriculum through dance and the performing arts, working with teachers across the UK and internationally.

Wendy’s roles as a dancer and choreographer have included work in film and theatre as well as in art galleries and stadiums. A highlight of her career was working as part of the Mass Movement Creative team for the London Olympic and Paralympic Opening and Closing Ceremonies in 2011 and 2012, a role which included co-leading the audition and rehearsal process and directing the large-scale cast rehearsals.

Having also studied dance vocationally at London Studio Centre, Leanne still enjoys participating in dance and now applies dance science techniques when in class and also when teaching young students. As an active member of the International Association for Dance Medicine and Science, Leanne has previously volunteered as part of their Student Committee and is now currently a member of their Promotions Committee.  Leanne is also a qualified Group Exercise to Music instructor and hopes to incorporate this within her work in Dance Science in the future.

Since graduating Leanne has worked as a Graduate Intern in both the Dance Science and Health department at Trinity Laban and now also works as a Lecturer on the BSc Dance Science programme as Module Leader of Researching Dance Science. Leanne also teaches Dance Science to the first year students studying at Bird College. Leanne is also Communications Coordinator for The Bridge Dance Project which is a cooperative endeavour between leaders in the dance medicine and science field, and in the competition / commercial dance field.

As a freelance teacher Christine has taught Rambert Dance Company, NDT 2, Scapino Dance Company, Charleroi Dance Company, Jonathan Burrows Group, AMP, and Scottish Dance Theatre. Christine also teaches on the International Dance Course for professional dancers and choreographers. She teaches Evening classes at the Place in London.

Founder of Seasonal Sessions UK, Poppy has created an intensive dance training program that runs once a month in Cardiff and Bristol, providing the South West cities of the UK with further opportunities in dance.

As well as teaching Hip Hop on Trinity Laban’s CAT program, Poppy has taught for higher education programs including the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, London Studio Centre and Shockout Academy. Poppy has recently become an official judge for the British Dance Organisation and 101 dance competitions.

Committed to dance education, Poppy strives to inspire young people to not only fulfil their passions and potential to perform, but for them to also explore their own artistry and creative choices alongside her own as a choreographer.

Vivian is a London-based freelance dance artist from Greece. She graduated with a 1st class BA degree in contemporary dance from Trinity Laban in 2015 and continued as a chosen member of the’ Akram Khan Experiment’ and then Jasmin Vardimon 2 where she performed a national tour.

She has performed for Jose Agudo Dance & Theatre Rites, WenHsin Lee & Elgiva Field, Vinicius Salles, Fernanda Prata, Ben Judd/Dionysios Tsaftaridis, Melanie Lomoff (Lowry and Rambert project), Follow Through collective, Hagit Yakira as well as acting as her rehearsal director for Royal Albert hall, and others. She has curated, performed and choreographed for Museum of London. She works as a dance artist for Alleyne Dance.

She was nominated for an Off West End best performer award alongside the rest of the cast for their performance for Theatre Rites & Jose Agudo.
Passionate about teaching, Vivian shares her expertise with professionals, adults, young people and dance companies. She has taught for: Rambert, The Place, Laban, Royal Academy of Dance, English National ballet, National Dance Company of Wales and others. She has founded two workshops: ‘Energy and Flow’ a professional contemporary dance workshop and ‘Movement Waves’ a community improvisation workshop.

Her choreography has received support from Arts Council England, TripSpace, Dancce Athens, and others. Vivian has created a group piece ‘Ego Mas,’ the duet ‘Greener Grass,’ and the film ‘I Am.’ She has also directed movement for films and choreographed for various commissions, earning awards for solo performances in competitions.

Rahel is a certified Body-Mind Centering practitioner and holds an MA in Arts: The Body in Performance. She teaches dance, improvisation and performance practice for different organisations in the UK and abroad. At the moment she is a guest lecturer at Trinity Laban, teaching contemporary technique (BA) and choreography (MA). 2016 she was acting artistic director of Transitions, MA in Performance, and in 2017 acting head for the MA Choreography at Trinity Laban.

Rahel has worked in collaborative contexts, amongst others, with dancer/choreographer Wally Cardona (NY), filmmaker Ruth Schlaepfer (CH) and company Pool (CH).
For over 20 years she worked, amongst others with Rosemary Butcher, Iztok Kovac (for film), Philippe Gehmacher, Charles Linehan, Liz Roche Cie, Ricochet Dance Company.

Berenice Beverley Zammit is a Performance Consultant and Coach. Berenice works with various performing artists and non-artist performers on mental and physical strategies which optimise performance. She also works with various performing arts institutions on areas relating to performers’ general health and wellbeing.

Berenice is also a researcher, lecturer and professional violinist. Her research interests encompass peak performance, pre-performance routines, psychological skills, physical activity, general health and wellbeing. Her PhD at the Royal College of Music investigated pre-performance routines and strategies adopted by professional musicians to optimise performance.

Research interests encompass peak performance, pre-performance routines, psychological skills, physical activity, general health and wellbeing.