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.