Helen Kindred
dancer | choreographer | movement practitioner
About
Helen is a dance artist-scholar
fundamentally interested in people moving together
and exploring possibilities for creative exploration
through movement improvisation.
Helen earned her MFA Choreography from Roehampton University,
PhD from Middlesex University and has been making
new choreographic work for thirty years.
Her work addresses some of the complexities of our embodied relationships with our sense of self and with each other, explored through improvised encounters using sound, text and touch, and has been presented at venues internationally.
Helen's movement practice is underpinned by the study of Bartenieff Fundamentals
and other somatic movement philosophies, with a firm belief in the frameworks these practices offer for dancing and expressive living.
Helen's doctoral research explores relationships
between somatic practice and improvised performance-making
through experiences of body-space-environment.
Her current research takes this focus into adventures of natural environments and the development of pedagogies of practice in movement.
Helen is co-Artistic Director of
DancingStrong Movement Lab with Adesola Akinleye,
Director of Dance and Professional Practice programmes at Middlesex University London.
Events
Exhibition opening and performance with Adesola Akinleye, Andrew Hinton and Mary Rodrigues
Denton Gallery
Texas USA
Oct 1-3, 2024
The 'Female' Dancer: a soma-scientific approach
co-edited publication with
Claire Farmer
Routledge Taylor Francis Group
Book Launch
Middlesex University, London
June 21, 2024
after the storm
collaborative performance work with Siân Hopkins, Mikkel Svak
Middlesex University, London
Dec 12-15, 2023
Texas Dance Improvisation Festival,
Guest teacher
Texas Woman's University,
Denton Texas USA
Oct 5-7 2023
9th International Festival of Dance, Guest artist
Wałbryzch, Poland
Sept 9-10 2023
FEMALEtraces
performance with Sandra Sok
Performing Picnic PARK Festival,
Karlovac, Croatia
Aug 6 2023
Laban Bartenieff Movement System Summit co-curator
part of the World Arts and Embodiment Forum
East-15 Acting School, University of Essex
April 11-13 2023
installation performance work
with Adesola Akinleye for DancingStrong Movement Lab.
IRIE! Dance Theatre, London
Nov 25 2022
plus London Nursery schools and SEN schools tour March 2023
waves
collaborative performance work with Mikkel Svak and Cheniece Warner as part of New Horizons Festival
Middlesex University London
May 11-13 2022
Concrete-Water-Flesh performance as part of
Deptford Waterside and Fordham Park, London
June 12 2021
digital online performance Theatrum Mundi book launch Adesola Akinleye's Dance, Architecture and Engineering,
April 30, 2021
Resolution!
The Place, London
Jan 29, 2020
installation of PhD research
Middlesex University
London
Nov 5, 2019
Symposium
Middlesex University
London
Nov 1/2, 2019
Cultural, Intercultural and Transnational Dialogues in Dance and Spirituality Conference
Improvisation workshop
The centre for embodiment & somatic movement education and therapy,
Cheltenham
Aug 30-Sept 2, 2019
ADiE
...whispers (solo)
Middlesex University
London
April 12, 2019