Technique Tutors
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. She 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 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 director/choreographer and performed 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. Recent teaching (2005) for Independent Dance at the Jerwood Space, Siobhan Davies Dance Company and regular classes in Brighton, London and workshops in Paris. Current work - Instructions For Survival, a duet with Scott Smith, performed at the Corn Exchange, Brighton. New work includes a site-specific piece to be 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. It was then 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. 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.
Fiona Wallis, Ballet
Fiona Wallis trained at Elmhurst Ballet School and then at the Rambert School where she was one of the founder members of a student dance group, which toured the UK in her final year. She was awarded her BA (Hons) in Dance in Society from the University of Surrey in 1994 and became a registered teacher of the Royal Academy of Dance in 1993. Since graduating from Surrey she has taught ballet and contemporary dance as a freelance teacher and more recently was Head of Performing Arts at Peter Symonds College in Hampshire. She has also worked for the Labanotation Institute as editor of their magazine Action Recording! and as teacher of the A level Dance set studies.
