Simonetta Alessandri

Biography

Simonetta Alessandri is a dancer, teacher and choreographer, who has been living in London for 5 years after a lifetime spent in Italy. In addition to her teaching at Goldsmiths, she also teaches at the Laban Center, the London Contemporary Dance School, Independent Dance and Moving East. She trained in Europe and USA first in Ballet, Jazz, Modern, Contemporary and then Contact Improvisation, Improvisation and Feldenkrais®. She obtained the T.C. Royal Academy of Dancing®, she is a qualified teacher of the Feldenkrais® and she received her PG Diploma in Choreography at London Contemporary Dance School.

Research Interest

Improvisation\ Contact Improvisation in Performance Composition in Improvisation Relationships between Improvisation and Choreography Feldenkrais as source for Choreographic process Embodied Voice Applications of The Feldenkrais Method in dance/ movement training and performance making. Specifically exploring strategies that support the transfer of learning experiences from somatic exploration to dance improvisation and onto the creation of personal vocabularies and choreography