Profile
Training
2022-2023 The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, MA Movement: Directing and Teaching - Distinction
2021 Guildhall School of Music and Drama, Foundation Certificate in Coaching and Mentoring
2020-2021 Embody Lab, Certificate in Somatic Stress Release
2014-2016 Giles Foreman Centre for Acting, Advanced 20-month Acting Diploma
2004-2005 Pilates Foundation, Comprehensive Pilates Teacher Training (500hr) - Distinction
1994-2002 The Royal Ballet School, Classical Ballet - Distinction
Experience
Movement Experience whilst on the MA Movement: Directing and Teaching
2023 Movement Director (placement), Biscuits for Breakfast, Hampstead Theatre, director Tessa Walker
2023 Movement Director (placement), Roberto Zucco, 2nd year BA Actors, Fourth Monkey, director Jamie Biddle
2022 Movement Director, Hamlet, BA (Hons) CDT 2nd year Bridge Project, director Sinead Rushe
2022 Assistant Choreographer (placement), Addams Family, 2nd year BA Musical Theatre, London College of Music, choreographer Sarah Lamb, director Gillian Ford
2022 Movement Director (placement), Ravenscourt, Hampstead Theatre, director Tessa Walker
Productions and Teaching
As a Choreographer/Movement Director/Performer
2023 Movement Director, Actor - Persona at Saatchi Gallery, London, Director Jesper Eriksson
2022 Choreographer, I’m King, Drag Performance, RVT, Ivan - If - A - Boy
2021 Choreographer, director, writer, performer; Lockdown Palladium, live-streamed, producer Jeremy Stockwell
2019 Actor and movement support, Ghostfruit, Camden People’s Theatre, director Max Wilkinson
2017 Movement director, Painting, The White Bear, director Julia-Maria Eiben
Awards
Royal Ballet School Prize for Excellence.
Ninette De Valois Choreographic Competition - 2nd Prize.
Sir Kenneth MacMillan Choreographic Competition - 2nd Prize.
Memberships
Spotlight
Biography
Rebecca is a London born movement director, teacher and performer. She trained at The Royal Ballet School and danced with English National Ballet and Aalto-Ballett (Germany) performing at The Royal Opera House, The London Coliseum, The Royal Albert Hall, Aalto Theatre as well as UK and international tours. Rebecca trained as an actor in 2015 (movement with Liana Nyquist and Yat-Laban movement psychology) and has since worked in theatre, TV and film, including fight roles. Rebecca is also a clinical Pilates teacher and somatics practitioner, she has taught for 18 years including at Cirque du Soleil, Tri-Yoga, Garuda Studio, as well as movement consultancy at Centre for Health and Human Performance and Guy Gold Performance Centre. Rebecca joined the MA Movement Directing and Teaching course at Royal Central School of Speech and Drama in 2021 and has since been named as “One to watch” by Broadway World for her work as Movement Director on placement on Ravenscourt at Hampstead Theatre in 2022.
Rebecca is a neurodivergent artist, this has influenced her approach to designing equitable and compassionate spaces and teaching practices. She is dedicated toward creating a trauma-informed and resilience-building actor-movement pedagogy. Rebecca is fascinated by the embodied history of why people move the way they move and translating this to character and story.
Skills
Laban, Yat Malmgren movement psychology, Ballet, Contemporary dance, Social dance, Improvisation, Ensemble devising, Commedia dell’arte, Acting, Performance Capture, Martial Arts (Sanjuro), Pilates, Feldenkrais, Somatics, Yoga, Swimming, DBS.
