MOVEMENT + COACHING
Monica has over 15 years experience teaching and coaching experience, working with professional actors, dancers and singers and young people. She works with actors to prepare for auditions and new roles by building the physicality of their characters, creature work and going through the fundamentals of specific dance styles. She supports singers in enhancing their performance for live events and in front of the camera. She facilitates workshops in contemporary dance technique, movement for actors and singers, choreography for stage and film and her own choreographic explorations.
Contemporary Dance for Professional Dancers.
Technique meets dynamic expression.
We go through a series of phrases that focus on transitions, finding the fullness in movement, dynamic flow and using the weight and breath to build momentum. Monica's movement practice focuses on the versatile body and expression. Sessions are designed to build strength, performance and body awareness, taking notes from contemporary techniques (Cunningham, Release, ballet), floorwork and gestural movement, to find balance through lines and curves. Physical, fluid and specific.
Photographer: Jo Marie Brent ©
Movement Coaching for Actors and Singers
The moving body for expression - character physicality, stage presence, the versatile body.
These sessions are designed to develop proprioception, and harness your body’s full moving potential to elevate your performance. As performers, having a versatile and expressive body is vital to develop character physicality for the stage and screen. Drawing from her own training in Laban's theories, breathwork, dance and research in animal movement and microgestures, participants are guided through a series of tasks designed to increase body awareness, create a multifaceted character and enhance their performance in productions. Sessions are tailored to the participant's needs, whether it's character phyisicality, period movement or specific dance styles and choreography.
Movement practices: Laban, Micro-gestures, Animal work, Elements, Intimacy, Pilates, Release technique, Practical Aesthetics, Contact, Improvisation.
Dance styles: Contemporary dance (Cunningham, Release, floorwork), Ballet, Greek Dance, Choreography, Social and Period dance, Lyrical, Partnering.
One-to-one sessions are available for preparing for auditions or new roles for the stage or screen.
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Photographer Ali Wright and Shapes in Motion
Excerpts of teaching experience
Nea Kinisi Cyprus, Guildhall School of Music and Drama, Laban, Royal Academy of Music, University College London,
University of Chichester, Creative Academy, Marylebone Ballet School, St Paul's Girls School
Queen's Gate School, City Academy, Dance Digital, Woking Dance, University of Cumbria, Kings College London Dance
Monica is certified in Contemporary Dance, Cecchetti Ballet and STOTT Pilates.
She is also a Level 2 Intimacy Director (IDC) and expanding her research into MoCap.
Please contact for more information.