Previous Collaborators

Graham Adey

Graham trained at Northern School of Contemporary Dance graduating in 2006. He then went on to tour with Mission Dance Company and ACE Dance and Music. Alongside his performing work Graham has taught on the young offenders programme run by Dance United, most recently as part of the Destino project. In 2008, Graham was invited to take part in the Ballet Gala in Yokohama, Japan and in 2009 appeared at The Place, London in The Percussive Customers. Alongside his work with Made By Katie Green, Graham is performing in the tour of Nocturn, a festival piece choreographed by Marc Brew.

Charlie Ashwell

Charlie is a dancer and solo choreographer based between London and West Berkshire. She has performed for Darren Johnston, Colin Poole, Marc Brew, Hanna Gillgren and Shobana Jeyasingh among others. She is a keen improviser and performs regularly with other artists in venues accross London. Having graduated with a first class honours degree from London Contemporary Dance School, Charlie has been dancing for Rick Nodine and the company Lost Dog understudying their latest work, as well as continuing to create solo work.

Laure Bachelot

Originally from France, Laure studied at London Contemporary Dance School where she obtained a BA (Hons) and a Postgraduate Diploma in Performance. As a member of EDge06, Laure performed works from Trisha Brown, Siobhan Davies, Sue MacLennan and Anais Bouts. Since then she has worked as a freelance dancer with Filip Van Huffel - Retina Dance Company (UK/BE), Simonetta Alessandri (UK/I) and most recently with dANTE or dIE Theatre. Laure is part of an International Improvisation/Physical Theatre Collective under the artistic direction of Thomas Mettler (CH).

As a freelance teacher Laure also works for The Place and City Lit in London.

Rachel Birch-Lawson

Since graduating from London Contemporary Dance School, Rachel Birch-Lawson has performed extensively in London, around Britain and abroad. She was a founder member of Kush Dance, for whom she dances, choreographs and teaches workshops. Rachel co-directs Project Mashed Potato, a sound and movement company who aim to bring contemporary dance to a wider audience, taking improvisation jams to clubs and other commercial venues. She also founded Present State, a performance group who work in collaboration with Sankorfa Percussion Quartet. Rachel is currently choreographing and dancing for Music Moves, a project involving performances and workshops with a singer from the Royal Opera House.

Tim Casson

Tim trained at The BRIT School and Bird College. Upon completion of his training in 2006 Tim joined Jasmin Vardimon Company as an apprentice through London Contemporary Dance School and became a full member of the company in 2007 touring internationally with the productions Justitia and Yesterday. Tim has also worked with MWAG (Mother Wanted A Girl) and recently completed an MA in Contemporary Dance.

For more information see Tim's website.

Liora Goldwater

Liora trained at Northern Ballet School and London Contemporary Dance School, graduating in 2006 with first class honours.

During her training Liora has performed with the Birmingham Royal Ballet and Manchester City Ballet and took part in the Rambert Master Class programme. Whilst with Manchester City Ballet Liora was a soloist, performing many roles, including Myrtha in Giselle. Liora has also performed pieces by Kerry Nicholls, Richard Alston, Jan de Schynkel, Stephen Petronio, Tom Roden, Sarah Fahie and Fleur Darkin. She danced for the tour projection video for Westlife's tour (2004), and appeared in the BBC's I Love the 90s series (2003). Liora was in the premiere of green bean dance's Flight at Ignite 2006 and is now part of the company's educational outreach programme, taking dance into various schools and colleges.

Thomas Goodwin

Thomas graduated from Laban in 2003 and continued his studies in e.x.er.c.e, a professional training program in France, studying improvisation and devising under the direction of Mathilde Monnier at the Centre Chorégraphique National de Montpellier. In 2006 he travelled through China, Japan and Taiwan, studying various Martial Arts and giving movement workshops. He has been teaching Hatha yoga for 5 years and most recently has started teaching chi-gung and meditation.

In his performance career, he has worked in such disciplines as Butoh and physical theatre as well as contemporary dance and with artists such as: Ya-Wen Lin (Cloud Gate Dance Theatre of Taiwan), Hofesh Shechter, Lalitaraja, Ben Wright and most recently Rosemary Lee on her latest project Common Dance for Dance Umbrella 2009. He is also making his own work that has been presented at The Place, Roehampton University’s Michaelis Thatre, Greenwich Dance Agency and the Bagouet Theatre, Montpellier.

Thomas is a co-founder of Longfellows Physical Theatre.

Victoria Hammond

Victoria graduated from London Contemporary Dance School in 2006 with first class honours. Victoria's early theatre work includes Dance Captain in several Pantomime seasons with Kevin Wood Productions (Gordon Craig Theatre), Laben Connects (Royal Festival Hall), and Young Person's Variety Performance (Her Majesty's Theatre). Television appearances include Multiple Sclerosis Trust Performance (BBC).

During her training Victoria appeared in the projection videos for the national tours of Westlife and Feeder, and worked with Lisa Spakman from V-TOL Dance Company within Bedfordshire Youth Dance Company. Victoria also performed work at The Place by Stephen Petronio, Kerry Nicholls, Siobhan Davies, Trisha Brown Dance Company, Richard Alston, Jan de Schynkel, Merce Cunningham Dance Company and Adam Benjamin with CandoCo.

Since graduating she has appeared in Picnic, a site specific performance in Mile End ArtsPark, London (Director/Choreographer Katharine Fry), Everything is Different with Aranea, The Blue Elephant Theatre, London (Choreographer Charlotte Spencer), Between Two Waves of the Sea with Present State and Connecting Arts Orchestra conducted by David Corkhill, St Mary Le Bow Church, London (Director/Choreographer Rachel Birch-Lawson), Rewind with Off The Map in Resolution! 2008 (Choreographer Steve Johnstone), and recently Victoria has worked on Big Brother 9, devising and performing 'Ping Pong Matrix' task instruction videos.

Victoria has performed with Made By Katie Green extensively over the past two years: work includes Flight at Ignite 2006, The Open Space 07 at Siobhan Davies Dance Studios, Connect Festival at Lilian Baylis Theatre - Sadlers Wells (2007), Pyramid Award Winners Ceremony at Circus Space (2007) and at the Burgos International Choreography Competition where Flight was nominated for the New Trends prize (2007). Victoria was also a part of Play to Win (part I) performed at The Parlour Studios Project Space, Chalk Farm, and Play to Win (part II) in the reception of One Canada Square, Canary Wharf (2007). Victoria then worked with first and second year students from The Place on a site specific project for the Bloomsbury Festival (2007), and later performed Box Clever as part of Touch Wood (2007).

For the past two years Victoria has been working on the education programme with Katie, teaching individuals from primary to professional level in London and Lincolnshire.

Victoria also teaches freelance in London, Hertfordshire and Cambridgeshire, currently including Kensington and Chelsea College, North Hertfordshire College and Kings College, Cambridge University.

Robert Guy

Robert Guy trained with Devon Youth Dance Theatre and graduated from London Contemporary Dance School in 2006. In 2005 he was awarded The Robert Cohan Prize for outstanding potential. Since graduating Robert has worked with Transitions Dance Company, Retina Dance Company and he continues to work with Wired Aerial Theatre Company. He participated in the research and development process for Martin Creed’s Work No. 850, exhibited at Tate Britain. He is also a member of the Essential Alston Education Team, collaborates with Daniela B. Larsen to create his own choreography and worked for Destino at Sadler’s Wells as assistant choreographer.

Carl Harrison

Originally from Manchester, Carl Harrison began his professional training at London Contemporary Dance School where he combined his interest of theatre with dance. Since graduating, he won the Deutsche Bank Pyramid Award for Contemporary Dance and went on to form Minna No Project, a dance company based in London and Paris. He works extensively as a performer for the likes of Maresa Von Stockert, Kate Mason, Colin Poole, Cathy Seago and has worked with a number of companies and operas in Ireland.

Steve Johnstone

Originally from Yeovil in Somerset, Steve Johnstone graduated from London Contemporary Dance School in 2007. Before moving to London, Steve won the Rose Bowl Award for his performance as White Face Clown in Barnum and worked with Pretty Good Girl Dance Theatre, with whom he performed in Resolution! 2003. Projects since graduating have included Play to Win, Box Clever, and Selected Portraits with green bean dance, Carmen in Norway with Dye Nye Opera, performances with iRONiNC (Jen Irons), and a duet with Jennifer Lynn-Crawford. Steve also choreographed his first professional work, Rewind, with his company Off The Map for Resolution! 2008.

Steve also continues to arrange and compose music and will be working with youth groups in Yeovil in 2008, teaching and choreographing.

Wesley Pritchard

Wesley Pritchard completed his training at London Contemporary Dance School in 2006 and joined green bean dance as a founder member. Wesley attended Coleg Gwent College in Wales under the direction of Sue Lewis and performed with her in eleven original choreographies. He has danced in works by Kerry Nicholls, Richard Alston, Jonathan Lunn, Arthur Pita and Jan de Schynkel, and recently returned from California Institute of the Arts where he studied and created choreographies for Final Flight to Heathrow (which will be showing at the Edinburgh festival in 2007), the film No More Words and a duet Moving in Other Voices. Wesley's UK work includes the music video for Stanton Warriors ft Sway Put um high. Wesley will also premiere his new work Agape in Resolution! 2007.

Leon Smith

Leon is a founder member of award-winning physical theatre ensemble Tangled Feet. Since co-founding the company in 2003 after graduating from Middlesex University, he has performed extensively throughout the UK and toured internationally. Awards and nominations have included a Stage Award for Acting Excellence: Best Ensemble 2005 nomination, UK representatives at the Cairo International Theatre Festival and Pick of the Fringe 2005 and 2006. Leon also designs productions for the company and leads the company's education programme.

Leon performed in Two for green bean dance as part of Resolution! 2007. He has worked at The Place with various companies, most notably Rambert, Hofesh Schecter, Random, Diversions, Mark Bruce, Jonathon Lunn, Jasmin Vardimon, Vincent Dance Theatre, Lea Anderson, Richard Alston, and is currently working at the Northern School of Contemporary Dance with Verve, NSCD's post-graduate company, working with Rafael Bonachela, Kim Brandstrup, Finn Walker, Glenn Wilkinson and Shobana Jeyasingh.