Teaching

Anna is a skilled, inclusive facilitator creating spaces for professional and non-professional performers.

Anna works as a member of the movement team at Guildhall School of Music and Drama. Anna is also a visiting lecturer at RADA, LAMDA, Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, Rose Bruford and the Institute of Contemporary Theatre Brighton.

Anna has strong ties with Artolution, Anciela, Mandinga Arts, South East Dance and Siobhan Davies Studios as a creative collaborator. 

She works also with choirs and orquestras as a movement coach exploring heightened and alternative ways of experiencing and performing music.

Experience

Teaching in conservatoires Anna supports actors in movement, embodiment and dance. Anna prioritises holding space for performers to create their best work.

Anna is an experienced and in demand Tango artist, teaching across the UK and Argentina. Anna holds regular open classes and workshops for both professional and non-professional dancers.

Anna has worked in community art projects across the UK, Jordan, Colombia and Brazil. Working to enhance the vision and creative objectives of co-created works. This work includes community building and conflict resolution.

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Lucia Fortune-Ely, Producer at Siobhan Davies Studios

“I have worked with Anna for many years now. Anna holds space with such warmth, her classes are affirming, challenging and joyous”

What I offer

  • For professionals
    1 day workshops
    £250 + £50 for planning

    Objectives: masterclasses in techniques and topics e.g. Tango, partnering, movement direction and choreographic composition.

    Participants will significantly develop and broaden their practice through task based work and discussion. 

    Example day:

    • Check-in

    • Warm-up

    • Part 1: Class

    • Part 2: Creative task

    • Part 3: Creation of scene work/ duologues

    • Check-out and feedback

  • For non-professionals
    1 day workshops
    £250 + £50 for planning

    Objectives: Co-creation of ideas, suggesting avenues to explore and techniques to draw on that might enrich  projects, as well as offering processes to reflect on what project brings in wider artistic context.

    Example day: 

    • Check-in 

    • Warm-up/ ice breakers and games

    • Part one: Somatic based movement, leading into taught dance/performance section

    • Part two: Continuation of learning material, going into creative tasks and showing work to one another

    • Check-out and feedback

  • We accept commissions for both choreographic and movement direction work.

    Choreographic commissions with professional artists or companies include creation of new original choreography, re-staging and re-imagining of repertoire, as well as movement direction for actors, dancers and singers.

    Commissioned work includes performance for a variety of spaces including galleries, fashion shoots, museums, on the street, theatre foyers and screen work.

    See the Portfolio section for further details. 

    For prices, please contact us directly.

Anna Alvarez Compania

Company members also lead bespoke workshops and participatory activities for a range of ages and abilities. This includes college students, youth companies, community groups and professional companies and graduates.

Key skills: Tango, Contemporary Dance, Limón Technique, Cuban Contemporary, Samba, Movement Fundamentals, Actor Movement, Feldenkrais, Chorographical Composition, Inclusive Practice and Practice as Research in both Academic and Non-Academic environments. Plus workshops in Screen Dance and Viewpoints.

Interested in a workshop?

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