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Ruth Phillips - cellist
Ruth started the cello at the age of four. She trained at the Yehudi Menuhin
School, the Staatliche Hochschule in Duesseldorf, and with Timothy Eddy
at the State University of New York where she received her MA in
performance. She has an international career as a modern and baroque
cellist, with a particular enjoyment in working with vocalists in recitative
or aria. Ruth is a member of Glyndebourne Touring Opera, and appears
regularly with the New London Consort and as principal cellist with the
Hanover Band. She is in demand as a teacher and workshop leader and has had
particular success with students suffering from
stage fright, helping many
to come off beta- blockers. Ruth is fascinated by the physical aspect of
playing an instrument and has collaborated with many dancers. She has
studied South Indian singing, African drumming and improvisation, practises
Alexander technique and yoga, and has worked with Gabrielle Roth's Five
Rhythms™. Ruth also has an MA in Voice Movement Therapy from the Academy
for Contemporary Research.
"Music to me is a spiritual practice and a celebration of life"
Carol Grimes - singer
Carol began her musical journey singing on the streets of London in the sixties. Her work in performance and teaching is now amongst some of the most challenging and creative currently available. Carol sings with The Shout, a nineteen piece vocal group. She has collaborated with, among others, Najma and Inderjit Kalyana on Raag, Rhythm and Rhyme, Steve Lodder, Annie Whitehead, Janette Mason, Sami el Saldhid, Josefina Cupido, Paul Nieman, Mark Hewins and Shamayal-Mashu, and Ian Shaw. She took part in the recent opera premiere of Hotel by Orlando Gough and will tour both The Shout and Gough's Shouting Fence in the UK and Europe this year. Carol's recording career spans three decades, with six of her albums having been re-released in 2001 on www.voiceprint.co.uk. Alongside individual Voicework sessions Carol runs workshops all over the Britain, including work with Welfare State International. She has an MA in Voice Movement Therapy from the Academy for Contemporary Research.
"I need to sing more than I ever did, for my life. To find my spirited self"
Sophie Ferman - dancer
Sophie was born in the Netherlands where she received a BA in Visual Arts. She decided to specialize in Dance and received her BA in dance and choreography from the School for New Dance Development in Amsterdam. There she trained in Body Mind Centering, Authentic Movement, Contact Improvisation and Improvisation. As a performer she has used mixed media, video installation and movement, her subject being the human physical, emotional and spiritual body. She has performed in England, France, Holland, Indonesia Turkey, and U.S.A. in festivals of dance, theatre, film and music both as a soloist and in collaboration with artists from differing backgrounds. Particularly interested in the relationship between Eastern and Western cultures, Sophie has been an apprentice since 1996 of Soprapto Suryodarmo in Indonesia with whom she has worked in outdoor movement meditations all over the world. Since 1993 Sophie studied and has collaborated with Gabrielle Roth in New York, and is an accredited Five Rhythms™ teacher, Currently she teaches weekly classes and individual sessions in Brighton, and leads workshops in England, Holland and the U.S.A.
"Dance is my passion, my life path. In falling deeper and deeper in love with dance, my practice has become my healing"
on Teaching
Work of this nature must be handled with care, compassion and, above all, a commitment to carrying the process through to a secure and safe closure. Feelings matter. We all matter. It matters that wherever you willingly place yourself, you have the power to say no. In the cases of people who were too young or defenceless to say no; in situations where they had no power, the way forward is with the utmost sensitivity and understanding.
Carol
The teacher or therapist who allows her charge to pass through and on re-parents (repairs) him and sets him free. I believe this is only possible when she maintains her own supple form whilst administering to that of her student. In other words, there must be two sets of healthy lungs in the relationship in order for the expression of the departing student to flow from the inspiration of the teacher.
Ruth
As a teacher I follow my students and will always be the student in the never ending adventure of the healing path through the arts. Teaching to me is more about supporting the student in finding the way to set their expression free through the experience of forming and sharing it than it is about telling the student what to do and how.
Sophie
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