Membership

Chisenhale Dance Space is a membership organisation supported by nearly eighty people from all walks of life. This include artists and other service users – adults in the community, arts enthusiasts.
 
The membership contributes and influences key issues for the organisation, volunteers on projects, and meets annually at the AGM. We also consult our members when planning projects and new initiatives.

Current Members

Joe Moran
Company Name: Dance Art Foundation
Website: www.danceartfoundation.com
Joe Moran is an independent dance artist and Artistic Director of Dance Art Foundation. He creates dance and video works that are presented in theatres, galleries and public spaces, alongside teaching widely, curating and facilitating projects in the community.

Rajni Shah
Company Name: Rajni Shah Theatre
Website: www.rajnishah.com
Rajni is a performance artist, writer and producer creating and curating work that opens up a space for conversation. Her work ranges from large performance installations in theatre and galleries to intimate conversations in public outdoor spaces.

Rainer Knupp
Choreographer, Feldenkrais Practitioner
Website:  www.meetup.com
Rainer is a choreographer and Feldenkrais Practitioner in London. He teaches Feldenkrais group lessons in East london and has a practice for 1-2-1 sessions near Liverpool Street Station. Dancers can benefit from the Feldenkrais Method by recovering from injury or improving their own movement skills.

Fabrizio Manco
Fabrizio Manco’ s practice includes performance/live art, drawing, installation and video, dealing with an immersive and expanded approach to sites and soundscapes, within architecture and landscape. He trained in Fine Art (BA/MA Slade School, UCL) and in Butoh and performance in Italy, England and Japan . He is also a PhD candidate and Visiting Lecturer at Roehampton University.

Fran Barbe
Company Name:  Fran Barbe Dance Theatre
Fran Barbe is a choreographer and performer whose dance theatre work is informed by training in the contemporary Japanese performance approaches of Butoh and Tadashi Suzuki's Actor Training Method. She also teaches in profesional and university contexts, and her research is based at the University of Kent.
 
Theatre Training Initiative
Website:  www.theatretraining.org.uk
TTI was founded in 2000, and is dedicated to developing the art of live performance through training and professional development opportunities. Known for their intercultural approach to training, they offer high quality workshops with UK and international practitioners of dance theatre and performance. Workshops are designed to support performance professionals, but are open to all including students and curious beginners.

Nikki Tomlinson
Website:  nikkitom.blogspot.com
Nikki makes and performs body-based work. She has also worked with Artsadmin in London as Artists’ Advisor since 2004, where she runs advisory sessions for artists working across performance, and a range of development projects.

Owen G Parry
Website: owengparry.blogspot.com
Owen G Parry is a performance artist, artist collaborator and writer based in London. Owens's work is live and about the live, and has been presented at live art and contemporary performance venues and festivals both nationally and across Europe.

Yael Loewenstein
Choreographer, teacher and film editor working with people ages 18 months - 96 years old across the spectrum of disciplines.

Tim Jeeves
Website: www.timjeeves.com
At certain junctures, in particular contexts and amidst a myriad of other inclinations, Tim will turn his artistic attention towards the flexibility of identity. Aware that these words may invalidate such investigations by being read as a statement of a constant self, he has embarked on a project entitled  'Artist’s State fragment'. Viewable at www.timjeeves.com, this work, written in hypertext, enables an increasing number of statements to be viewed  non-linearly and with fluctuating priority.

 Helena Hunter
Website: www.helenahunter.com, helenahunter.wordpress.com
Helena Hunter is a UK artist living and working in London. Hunter’s practice spans performance, visual art, literature photography and film. Her work addresses complex cultural issues relating to the politics of the body, the construction of gender, and the formation of desire.

Joseph Mercier
www.josephmercier.com 
Joseph Mercier is a Canadian choreographer based in London.  Originally trained as a classical ballet dancer, he now works primarily in contemporary modes of dance and performance.  His work is hugely informed by queer, feminist and poststructuralist politics.  Most recent projects include: Age Gap (Choreographer) at The Chisenhale Dance Space; Perverts! (Choreographer/Performer) with PanicLab at Act Art and Théâtre La Chapelle, Montreal; Cruising, Clubbing and Fucking (Choreographer/Performer) at The International Workshop Festival; Three Ladies, Three Whores and an Uninvited Guest (Choreographer) with PanicLab at The Rich Mix, Edinburgh Fringe and Arcola Theatre; Oblivion (Director) at The Royal Vauxhall Tavern.  Joseph holds and MA in Directing from Central School of Speech and Drama, where he is currently a PhD candidate studying dance, fetishism and sexuality.   His current project is entitled Giselle, or I’m too horny to be a prince.  

Maddy Wynne Jones
www.temperedbody.com
Maddy Wynne-Jones has been working primarily in London since moving from Canada, where she trained and began her professional career as a dancer before pursuing her choreographic ambitions. She is a choreographer heavily influenced by collaborating with other art forms and inspired by the challenge of pushing the boundaries of physical and emotional awareness. Maddy works as a freelance teacher and dance artist throughout London and further afield, and is also the founder and Artistic Director of the contemporary dance company Tempered Body. Maddy’s company Tempered Body are resident at Chisenhale Dance Space.

Rosemary Lee
www.artsadmin.co.uk www.rescen.net
Rosemary Lee works in a wide variety of contexts. She makes installations, film and video as well as directiong and choreographing often site specifically.  She is known for her work with intergenerational casts often working with non professional as well as professional performers.  Rosemary guest lectures and teaches internationally.

Chrissie Adesina 
Chrissie Adesina has worked as a performer, choreographer and dance tutor for over 12 years. She has danced for CandoCo Dance company, Irie! Dance theatre, and company Malakhi to name a few and has taught all over the UK in schools, college’s and community dance organisations. Chrissie is the Artistic Director of adc dance theatre company founded in 2007 the company’s aim is to create work that inspires and challenges audiences. 

Jenny Edbrooke
www.jennyedbrooke.com
Jenny Edbrooke is a Live Artist who uses the mediums of performance and installation. Working from her seaside office in the beautiful town of Hastings Jenny aims to make work that is comedic and entertaining whilst giving a bashfully honest voice to a range of issues that effect women and girls locally and worldwide. Jenny likes to make work that engages with the audience in unconventional ways creating a resonant experience for all involved. Sometimes the work is specific to a time and place. Sometimes it is designed to challenge various political, social or economical realities. Jenny hopes hopes that her work stays with an audience as they go about their everyday life, as they hang out their washing, as they lay down for their smear, as they make a cup of tea, as they trim their pubes or buy a kebab they'll think, for just a second, about the time they shared with her.

Soren and Bradley Stauffer-Kruse AKA The Sugar Dandies 
www.sugardandies.com
Currently the World OutGames Vice-Champions in Show Dance, the Sugar Dandies have entertained audiences worldwide with their flamboyant and unique style of ballroom dancing. When their show “Ladies Not Required” debuted in Edinburgh last summer, The Scotsman declared them to have won “the award for campest show at the Fringe outright.” Having burst onto the scene as the World Federation of Same Sex Dancing's "Rising Star" World Champions, their upstream journey through the whirling world of ballroom dance has turned many heads.  Along the way they have garnered a sparkling collection of trophies, medals and titles, including the UK Invitational Show Dance Trophy and a silver medal at the Gay Games in men’s ballroom.

Rachel Gomme 

Sioned Huws

Navraj  Sidhu  

Angela Woodhouse

Jackie Adkins

Kate Pyper 

Kate Brown  

Rosemary Lee  

Thomas  Kampe  

Nic Sandiland  

Karen Greenhough  

Andrew Barker  

Marie-Gabrielle Rotie  

Tony Burch  

Jessica Lerner  

Henrietta Hale   

Jovair Longo    

Jenny Potkins  

Steven Whinnery  

Stirling Steward  

Irmela Wiemann  

Claire Burrell  

Kristina Leonnet

Simon  Whitehead  

Joukje Kolff  

Gale  Burns  

Jane  Munro   

Robert Anderson  

Kate Willis  

Ian Bramley  

Meghan Flanigan  

Cheryl Pierce   

Polly Hudson  

Dawn Burnham  

Alan Widdowson  

Sunao Vagabond  

Mhora Samuel  

Nicola Collett  

Kate  Hilder  

Jane Corry  

Temujin Gill  

Lisa  Nkrumah  

Steve Wald  

Andrea Puerta  

Claire Brand   

Patricia Woltman  

Stephanie Schober  

Jonathan Weinberg  

Ruth Shallcross  

Theron Schmidt  

Lucy  Cash  

Alicia Frost  

Silke Arnold  

Florence Peake  

Vicente Sancho  

Funmi Adewole  

Margaret (Maggi) Morrison  

Sian Prime  

Claudia Kappenberg  

Fiona Millward  

Jane Castree  

Hannah Rotie-Scanlan  

Sarah da Fonseca