Drift Milton Keynes - Monica Nicolaides

Join us for Drift Pro Dance class in Milton Keynes!

Drift Pro classes are designed for dance and movement artists including performers, creatives and teachers who have trained vocationally or are currently training vocationally and who are 18 years of age or older. The classes may be fast paced and offer physical challenges.

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This class will be led by Monica Nicolaides.

What to expect:

Technique meets dynamic expression.

A series of phrases that focus on transitions, finding the

fullness in movement, dynamic flow and using the weight

and breath to build momentum. My movement practice

focuses on the versatile body and expression. The session is

designed to build qualitative strength and body awareness,

taking notes from contemporary techniques, floorwork and

gestural movement, to find balance through lines and curves.

Physical, fluid and specific.


Artist Biography:

Monica Nicolaides is an award winning choreographer and

movement director working on stage and screen. She was a

dancer for Birmingham Royal Ballet, London Olympics Ceremony,

Torifune Butoh-Sha, The V&A, BSkyB, Barbican, and

choreographers Ben Duke, Yara Dolev, Mimmo Miccolis, amongst

others. A featured choreographer for One Dance UK and Hiive’s

‘One-to-watch’, her work was supported by Arts Council England,

DanceEast, NT Studio, IdeasTap Innovators Fund, Candoco Dance,

Hiive and bbodance. It was performed at Edinburgh Fringe Fesaval,

Oxford Playhouse, The Place, Edinburgh Zoo, featured on BBC

Persia, The Forumist and various internaaonal fesavals.

Monica's pracace explores body language, human behaviour and

relaaonships in current society. Drawing from her training as a

dancer, microgestures and other art forms, she develops

movement language for mulafaceted characters and stories, and

visually striking shapes for the stage and screen.

Her pordolio includes works with The Barbican, Royal Opera

House, Scoesh Opera, Guildhall, Jermyn Street Theatre, Park

Theatre, Royal Academy of Music, Third Row Dance, Dance Digital,

Hallidonto, Homs Arthaus, and several filmed works with Isla Rose,

Lucy Tun, The Glare.

We are afraid that this venue is not accessible for people in wheelchairs.