MA Performance
Dance
Detta Howe
Contemporary Technique
Detta Howe is Artistic Director of Havant-based Ginger Dance Theatre. After graduating with a BA(Hons) in Dance Theatre from the Laban Centre, Detta continued studying for a fourth year for the Advanced Performance Diploma and toured with Transitions Dance Company. She returned home to Hampshire and formed Ginger in 1995 and since then, has made more than 20 works for the company, touring widely throughout the South and beyond. She has taught a wide range of ages and abilities, ranging from 4-year olds, through to professional dancers to over 50s.
Nanette Kincaid
Contemporary Technique
Nanette Kincaid is a professional dancer who has performed with many companies and artists including Arc Dance Company, Retina, Bock and Vincenzi and Matthew Bourne’s Adventures in Motion Pictures. Trained at Laban, the London School of Contemporary Dance and the State University of New York (SUNY) at Purchase, she is an experienced teacher. She has taught for many colleges, companies and organisations including London Contemporary Dance School, Laban, Adventures in Motion Pictures, Royal Opera House, Dance Theatre of Ireland, Coisceim, The Place, Association of Professional Dancers in Ireland, Dance Northern Ireland and many others.
Charlie Morrissey
Contact Improvisation
Charlie Morrissey trained at Dartington College of Arts. He has been working for 15 years as a director/choreographer, performing nationally and internationally, working extensively with Steve Paxton, Kirstie Simson, Lisa Nelson, Gill Clarke, KJ Holmes, Scott Smith, Becky Edmunds, Henry Montes and many others, bringing companies together for different projects and commissions. His recent teaching activities include classes for Independent Dance at the Jerwood Space, Siobhan Davies Dance Company, as well as regular classes in Brighton, London and workshops in Paris. His recent choreography, Instructions For Survival, a duet with Scott Smith, was performed at the Corn Exchange, Brighton. New work includes a site-specific piece presented in October in a huge palm house near Brighton and a film with Steve Paxton in Spain in December.
Richard Slaughter
Ballet
After training at the Royal Ballet School where he twice won the Ursula Moreton Choreographic Award, Richard Slaughter danced with the Royal Ballet, Ballet for All, Werkcentrum Dans in Rotterdam, and with London City Ballet as a principal dancer. It was there that he met and married Ursula Hageli, and their subsequent dancing partnership, specialising in the classical ballet repertoire, has taken them all over the world. He was principal dancer of the Royal Ballet Education Unit for three years, taking ballet to schools, colleges and hospitals nation-wide. His film and television appearances include The Dark Crystal, Channel Four’s Man and Music series and the award-winning Mozart is Alive and Well in Milton Keynes. In 1989, he co-founded Ballet Creations of London with Ursula Hageli, choreographing three successful productions: A Portrait of Anna Pavlova, Cleopatra and Gala Performance. Other recent choreography includes work for the National Youth Ballet, Bournemouth Ballet Club 50th anniversary and Alcina for the Cambridge Handel Opera. He is currently a part-time MA student at the Laban Centre.
