Co-directors
Gill Clarke
Gill Clarke is an independent dance artist. She was a founder member of Siobhan Davies Dance Company and has also performed and collaborated with other choreographers including Rosemary Butcher, Rosemary Lee, Janet Smith, Kate Brown and Marina Collard.
Gill regards teaching as an integral part of her artistic practice. She regularly leads masterclasses and workshops internationally for students, professionals and companies, and is currently collaborating with filmmaker Becky Edmunds on a multi-screen installation - Stones and Bones.
Head of Performance Studies at Laban – London 2000-2006, she continues a close working association with the organisation and is a member of the 'choreographic lab' research project supported by Northampton University. Gill was awarded an MBE for services to Dance and recently became Honorary Visiting Professor at University of Ulster.
Fiona Millward
Fiona has worked throughout the UK and abroad as a dancer, teacher and choreographer for the last 22 years. She regularly teaches abroad for the British Council as well as independently in a variety of settings, from independent classes to companies and institutions, and for a range of participants, from dance artists to actors to non-professionals.
She has been the recipient of awards and commissions for her choreographic work, both independently and as part of the European Travelling Project, and enjoys a number of collaborative partnerships with dance artists, theatre directors and artists.
From 1999-2004 she was Head of Movement at the Oxford School of Drama and from 2001-2005 was the joint recipient with Gill Clarke, of a NESTA fellowship for her work with Independent Dance, ongoing since 1996.