BESPOKE WORKSHOPS & COACHING
I teach dance and movement in a range of contexts, drawing on different techniques and disciplines I have studied and practised over the years: Ballet, Modern' Jazz, Contemporary, Somatics, Laban, Butoh, Yoga, Improvisation.
This rich background feeds my unique methodology, allowing me to tailor my approach. I taught Contemporary technique classes for 10 years at all levels, at Danceworks, Pineapple Dance Studios, Urdang Academy, The Place, and Margaret Howard Theatre Schools, among others. Today, I lead creative workshops for dance and performing arts courses, institutions and professional groups. These recently included National Centres for Advance Training at London Contemporary Dance School and Swindon Dance, and SIB Dance Lab. I also provide private coaching. Workshops can involve:
Intensives and residencies provide more time together for:
My pedagody promotes clarity and discipline alongside a playful, experimental attitude. I encourage authenticity and bravery, deep awareness and individuality of expression. In working with James you were able to engender his confidence by asking him to demonstrate moves which he felt comfortable with. When refining choreography, you asked questions which made him consider how his body moved to its best advantage. You spoke to him as an equal, in a calm and encouraging manner and always took his ideas and preferences into account, ensuring therefore that he had ownership of the work. I provide live music-mixing / DJing / soundscaping to accompany dance and movement workshops - bringing together my experience as a dance artist and my skills in music curation, sound design and DJing.
Used to improvisation, experimental, and R&D processes, I have an all-around understanding of a choreographer's, director's or workshop leader's role, and of the performers' point of view. As a DJ, I select music for each unique event while reading the room and being 100% responsive, to deliver the best sonic journey possible. I am in a unique, privileged position to contribute to a company's creative process as a dance artist delivering careful, playful, supportive sound curation. |
EMBODIED PRACTICE AS RESEARCH
These workshops provide participants with embodied knowledge of a key type of creativity based on exploration conducted through the body and the senses rather than the brain. The sessions enable participants to connect to their body as a tool for research, authentic creation, storytelling and problem-solving, using a physical and improvisational framework influenced by various somatic techniques.
The approach is not only relevant to performers of all kinds and anyone working in the performing arts and media, but also to all creatives such as designers and technologists. Participants acquire insights and strategies that can be further applied to their work, whatever their medium or art form. My unique methodology, developed over 15 years, can be adapted to various groups and formats, from a single masterclass to an intensive few days or a short course. Bespoke groups I have delivered these workshops to include: VR, AR, and gamification professionals from VRINN Immersive Learning Cluster (Norway), Leo Cosendai's sound healing course (UK) and SIB Dance Lab (Norway) for dance professionals.
Scarlett’s workshop at the Nordic VR Forum was truly a breath of fresh air. It challenged us to think deeply about our bodies and how physical awareness shapes immersive experiences. The session was highly interactive, engaging, and left a lasting impression — I still reflect on what I learned, even months after the event. An inspiring and transformative workshop that I would recommend to anyone working in XR or creative experience design. - Keith Mellingen, VR/AR Director & VRINN Business Cluster Manager I work closely with the MA Scenography programme at Royal Central School of Speech and Drama since 2010, delivering intensives that help designers and performance makers acquire practical skills in real scale creative development which they can subsequently utilise when working with performers. RCSSD also commissions me choreographies for BA Design students to develop new designs for. I accompany the students through production meeting-tutorials as they learn about process and collaboration.
Scarlett has been a formidable collaborator in her continuous willingness to keep developing workshops over the years based on changing material conditions as well as feedback from students and staff. Her workshops...remain a profound influence on the students' practice throughout the rest of the course and in their professional career thereafter. - Dr Simon Donger, Course Leader MA/MFA Scenography, Royal Central School of Speech & Drama. Scarlett's workshops have been immensely valuable for my trainees. I admire her approach and her novel perspective on internal and external movement. - Leo Cosendai, Creative Director & Sound Facilitator, Founder of Third Ear. In 2019, I set up the Forum on Embodied Practice, an opportunity for peer exchange, research and growth in the field of embodied practice, welcoming a range of practitioners and artists to participate and lead sessions in turn. The Forum collaborated with SIB Dance Lab in Norway and received support from the Lisa Ullman Travel Scholarship Fund. Read more about the Forum here.
[The Forum has] an open and flexible form, still there's a clear framework and continuum. |
Understanding, exploring and celebrating the body, every body, in its ability to feel and move, is my life-long passion. This feeds my work as a yoga teacher too - more info here.