Tamara Hayes Elliott

Co-Creator/Movement Director - R&D process and development for Before She Goes. Working with director/movement director Ewa Emini to facilitate further development of second R&D process, to bring to life a movement performance rooted in Samuel Beckett's Eh Joe. April 2022 - Present (continued project) 

Movement Facilitator for NYT (National Youth Theatre) Auditions – Employed by NYT and The Pappy Show to run a movement workshop as a casting for a large event performance. Working with NYT members to explore the theme of Interrupting Space in movement, devising and improvisation exercises, with a focus on building ensemble to recruit members for the future performance. February 2022 (Newcastle)

Movement Facilitator for Unit 4 Project at Wimbledon College of Arts, UAL: Employed by The Pappy Show. Working closely with Director Natasha Kathi-Chandra and Movement Facilitator Marc Benga to build a devised theatre piece with first year students of BA Contemporary Theatre and Performance. June 2021

Movement Director for BA Acting Level 6 Productions, London College of Music, University of West London. February-May 2021:

The Wolves directed by Natasha Kathi-Chandra, Movement Director Kane Husbands

Fatherland directed by Paul Harvard, Movement Director Kane Husbands

Macbeth directed by Gemma Kerr, Movement Director Kane Husbands 

Welcome to Thebes directed by Jon Pashley, Movement Director Kane Husbands

Working on these four performances, two simultaneously at a time, brought an immersive, rich and knowledgeable experience of professionality in movement direction. Being in rehearsals every day working throughout the process of building the physical language, character development, stage combat, choregraphing movement sequences and the world of each play. From table reads to Tech days and final movement adjustments, to performance nights, movement directing these four plays gave me valuable experience in multitasking, creative exploration, storytelling, and problem solving to collaboratively build the vision of each performance. 

Movement Teacher Assistant, ALRA (The Academy of Live & Recorded Arts) – BA Acting Level 5 & MA Acting. Assisted & mentored by Gareth Taylor. October-December 2020

Movement Teacher, London College of Music: University of West London, BA Acting Level 6. October-November 2020: Continuing work with this group of student to facilitate movement skills, explorations and character work to support them in their last year of studies. Building towards how they would approach their final performances and use their movement knowledge to build character, in depth physicality and ensemble collaboration.

Movement Director, Photography Collaboration with Ned Summers, August 2020. Shadows – Building a visual story of how the moving body can be represented in photography. We played with the idea that the body can take on multiple forms, shapes and stories, experimenting with how to capture it in black & white media.

Movement Director, RCSSD BA CDT Level 5 Bridge Project, Online Rehearsals and Performance, Director Robbie Bowman. May-June 2020

Movement Teacher, London College of Music: University of West London, BA Acting Level 4, 5 & 6 mentored by Paul Harvard. May-July 2020: Working virtually with the students to build an interactive exploration of movement in relation to text. The scheme of work I created for the six weeks of classes was to continue their physical skills and learning of expression and storytelling through movement, building towards a solo showing of their work at the end of the course. My intension for this course of work was for the students to explore self-expression of understating of the text to build a movement story and use the body as a means of creative freedom.

Movement Director, RCSSD MA: Advanced Theatre Practice collaboration, Heroines in Limbo directed by Clodagh Chapman. May 2020: Working on the same new writing play but with two separate directors and groups of actors, in an intensive rehearsal and performance project. Through interpretation, experimentation, and rehearsal testing, we built a virtual performance of a small section of the play. My job as Movement director included start of rehearsal warmups to physically explore the themes of the writing, to build the physical language of the world of the play and work with the actors on their character development, physicality and exploration, and choreograph a movement section of one of the performances. 

Movement Director, RCSSD MA: Advanced Theatre Practice collaboration, Heroines in Limbo directed by Holly Blain-Rodman. May 2020 

Movement Teacher, MA/MFA Advanced Theatre Practice students at RCSSD, mentored by Ana Marambio. January-March 2020: Exploring different creative themes over the weeks and working with the actors on connection through their bodies, alignment, awareness, self-recognition and discovery to take forward as skills for their performance practice. 

References available upon request.