FOUNDER & DIRECTOR

Elizabeth creates emotive performances and projects for others driven by personal and societal themes. She is a creative director, choreographer, singer, dance artist and facilitator. Her collaborative works have been shared on stage and screen at the V&A, Royal Opera House and Lilian Baylis - Sadlers Wells.

Since graduating from Liverpool Theatre School she has lived in London. Alongside performing in shows she has conceptualised and produced over 40 events, films and workshops. In 2016 she founded Visceral Creative to assist and expand creativity into under-represented communities across London. In 2018 she was offered the opportunity to work with Creative Dance 60+ and has since expanded on the success of both of these companies and combined them into Creative Dance London delivering 100s of free online and in person sessions a year to a global audience.

Elizabeth is the proud co founder and creative director alongside Charlotte Edmonds of Move Beyond Words.

FOUNDER

Charlotte Edmonds trained as a dancer at The Royal Ballet Lower School, Rambert School and Choreography at Central School of Ballet (MA). She started her career as a choreographer with The Yorke Dance Project in 2013 before graduating and becoming the Inaugural Young Choreographer at The Royal Ballet. After 3 successful years, Charlotte transitioned into a freelance artist working on movement in film, fashion, theatre and dance companies across the world. Charlotte has worked with companies including Dutch National Ballet Junior, Norwegian National Ballet, Company Wayne McGregor, Bayerisches Staatsballett, Northern Ballet and The Royal Ballet. Charlotte is interested in storytelling through movement that allows humankind to imagine and explore different social, emotional and moral perspectives. Her passion lies in nurturing creativity and honouring dance as an important source of expression.

BOARD OF ADVISOR

Kuo-Chieh is equally rooted in 3 cultures, Chinese, English and French. He is the Head of Enterprise for Bootstrap Charity, Non-Executive director for a HKSE listed company and a director of the Greenwich Social Enterprise Partnership. He is a leader in the field of social innovation, passionate about creating a better society and helping young people grow and develop sustainable businesses. With him he brings an ability ability to step back, understand and assess issues within the wider context, being able to plan effective and tailored strategies.

CHAIR OF BOARD OF ADVISOR

Steve Chapman (also known as @stevexoh) is an artist, writer and speaker interested in creativity and the human condition. He has spoken around the world on the subject of creativity and consulted with over 80 organisations to help them liberate the creative spirit of their human inhabitants. As an artist he has sold his work across five continents and exhibited alongside the likes of Pablo Picasso and David Shrigley. Steve specialises in counter-cultural conceptual art projects such as Sound of Silence - the world’s first silent podcast featuring special guests, that saw him sit and record silence face to face with 100 people. Steve’s dyslexic superpowers lie at the heart of all his work. He is at his best when he is not quite sure what he is doing.

BOARD OF ADVISOR

After producing for the Young Shakespeare Company which she co-founded straight out of university, Margaret moved into publicity and fundraising for the arts. She has more than 30 years of experience in Development, most recently at The Royal Opera House, where she spent almost ten years. Prior to that she focused on fundraising for dance working with English National Ballet and London City Ballet amongst other companies. Margaret is on the Board of the Alexander Whitley Dance Company and New English Ballet Theatre.

BOARD OF ADVISOR

Ola is a storyteller, activist and social scientist who is interested in liberating the freedom of the human spirit and helping people be seen, heard and understood in organisations and society. She specialises in bringing unconventional and sometimes messy thinking to the world of diversity, inclusion and belonging and brings simple lenses and language to enable people to experiment, make their own unique discoveries.

Ola has a deep expertise in human dynamics and organisational culture and as a trained biochemist, brings the curiosity and experimental philosophies of a scientist to her work. She has worked with the likes of Starbucks, UBS, BP, The Guardian, HSBC, Oxfam, Network Rail and the NHS and is visiting faculty on a number of culture change and leadership educational programmes.

DANCE ARTIST

Rosalie is a freelance contemporary dance artist based in London, who graduated from London Studio Centre. Her main body of work centres on interdisciplinary and experimental collaborations including Pan Daijing (Tate Tanks), Hannah Perry (Somerset House), Darcy Wallace (V&A), Burberry x Holly Blakey, London College of Fashion, Janine Harrington, TATE Liverpool, Gingerline, Glastonbury Festival, Willi Dorner, Nick Finegan and Turf Projects.

DANCE ARTIST

Kirubel Belay is a professional freelance dance artist. Specialising in hip hop and contemporary styles as-well as experiencing other styles such as; Ballet, African, Commercial, Funk. He trained at both London Studio Centre & Northern School of Contemporary Dance.

ARCHITECT AND SET DESIGNER

Aidan is an Architect and is Managing Partner of Burrell Foley Fischer LLP, an award-winning design studio based in London and the Midlands. He has specialised in working with public buildings for most of his career, ranging from schools to theatres, re-imagining how we continue to use our historic buildings in sustainable ways for the future.

PHOTOGRAPHER

Louis is a portrait and fashion photographer based in London. He has a passion for expressing himself creatively and it has taken some years to find the medium that he felt most rewarding. Although he appreciates the unbelievable levels of technology in digital, he shoots mainly on film because he has found this to be the most attractive form of photography. Digital just doesn’t offer the same satisfaction that he gets collecting film from the lab.

GRAPHIC DESIGNER

Alex is an experienced graphic designer currently thriving in a fast-paced agency, developing print and digital solutions across multiple client accounts and industry sectors.

She is interested in exploring new ways to research and tell unique stories through design to capture meaningful perspectives and behaviours.