Our Team

Grace Keeble - Artistic Director and resident choreographer

Grace is a London based choreographer, teacher and dance artist . She began, at a young age with Irish dancing, ballet and jazz but it was contemporary dance that caught her imagination. With a background in writing as well as a degree in History, she has always been compelled to use movement as an alternative medium to explore historical, political, and social concerns. Grace has performed and showcased her work in the UK, Switzerland, Russia and Australia.

Grace graduated from Trinity Laban Conservatoire of music and dance with a distinction in MA Choreography. Her MA piece ‘Sense of Wolf’ was chosen to be performed at the Turner Contemporary Gallery in Margate, as part of the Deal Arts Festival. This choreography and research has recently been awarded a residency at the prestigious Shawbrook House in Ireland. Here, Grace will continue to examine and develop her practice which has, over time, seen her artistic interest shift more to exploration of 'natural' movement, examining how both trained and untrained bodies might find an honesty and sincerity within the development of a raw and instinctive movement language.

Verena Shneider - Guest Choreographer/teacher

Verena is a performer, teacher, choreographer and researcher based in London. She received her dance training at Trinity Laban, London Contemporary Dance School and with Jasmin Vardimon Company, and has worked with companies and artists such as Hagit Yakira Dance, Lisa May Thomas, Chhaya Collective, and Becky Namgauds. Her practice is informed by her experiences and training in floor work, Capoeira and improvisation.

Verena has also completed the MSc Health Psychology programme at UCL and works in healthcare consultancy.

She is specifically interested in the value of culture and the arts for physical, mental and social wellbeing and in integrating her experience in dance and the performing arts with health and community psychological practice and research.

Petronella Wiehahn - Guest Choreographer

Petronella is a choreographer, performer and teacher based in London and Cornwall. Her work explores themes of weather, nature, and interconnection through contemporary and hip-hop styles. She is inspired by her collaborations with other art forms including lighting design and sculpture. 

Petronella studied BA (Hons) Contemporary Dance at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance and MA Choreography at London Contemporary Dance School. She is currently an Associate Artist with Swindon Dance and has received choreographic commissions from Hall for Cornwall and Kneehigh Theatre. Her work has been performed at The Place, Southbank Centre, Roehampton University, Trinity Laban Bonnie Bird Theatre and King Charles Court, and on Cornish beaches.

Aneta Zwierzynska - Guest teacher

Aneta is a professional dancer, capoeira teacher and choreographer. At Anton Bruckner University in Austria she obtained a double MA, studying movement research and dance pedagogy. She has trained and worked in Poland, Austria, Brazil and the UK. Her movement research was carried out in Brazil and focussed on the exchange of ideas between Capoeira and contemporary dance. She has performed with various dance companies in Europe and Brazil. In 2016, she was selected to be the main choreographer for the opening ceremony of the European Capital of Culture.

Through her practice, Aneta focuses on organic forms of movement which have at their centre a focus on nature, creativity, and improvisation, as well as an emphasis on spiral dynamics and the connection between body, mind and spirit. She also explores ways to incorporate the total physical awareness necessary for Capoeira, with its combative roots, into the more meditative world of release technique. Through Capoeira, she hopes to open more opportunities for self-expression within the medium of contemporary dance – using the quality and philosophy behind the movements as inspiration without direct imitation. 

This poetic playfulness and animalistic physicality provides new and exciting dimension for dancers, Capoeiristas and amateurs alike to explore.