Courses in London

julia elmore

🌿ARTIST, MOTHER, MENTOR, NATURE LOVER.💗 SUPPORTING OTHERS IN THEIR CREATIVE PRACTICE.  ART FOR RELAXATION CLASSES, MENTORING AND MORE.

the interior design school

A professional teaching studio recognised by the industry as a unique and excellent centre for learning Whether you want to pursue a career in interior design, or simply wish to redesign a room in your own home, the guiding principles remain the same. The Interior Design School, founded in 1991 by Iris Dunbar, runs an evolving and responsive programme of studio-based professional training for people who want to explore through creative practice. The ethos of the school is to educate students in current contemporary interior design, and to maintain close connections within the industry and offer high staff to student ratios. Our NEW ADDRESS in the heart of the DESIGN DISTRICT The location is five minutes from Old Street tube station and accessible to Kings Cross, Liverpool Street, Farringdon and within easy reach of Shoreditch, Clerkenwell and Islington.

artists showcase int

Artists Showcase Int is an international, independent creative practice supporting and promoting visual artists, designers and performers by organising online talks, art exhibitions, pop-up events, and site-specific displays. With years of experience providing a range of client-facing creative solutions and working with teams of collaborators and service providers and like-minded professionals, Artists Showcase Int was set up to provide a platform to take away the stresses of organising and presenting high-level events and engaging public displays.

creative pioneers

independent dance

Independent Dance (ID) supports the development of dance through radical enquiry, learning, community-building and audience engagement. Based at Siobhan Davies Studios in London, ID is a research engine and ‘home’ organisation for a growing community of practitioners in the UK and around the world. It has been artist and female-led since 1984. Our public programme supports a wide range of accessible and interdisciplinary approaches to dance, somatics, improvisation and choreography. Co-designed with UK/ international artists and partner organisations, this far-reaching programme includes classes, talks, workshops, research, digital initiatives and festivals. ID also bridges higher education and professional spheres, leading on MA/MFA Creative Practice: Dance Professional in partnership with Trinity Laban and Siobhan Davies Studios. Our aim is to generate a diverse and dynamic ‘community of practice’ which is not limited to one place or location and to agitate for positive change and justice within ID, the arts and society. Independent Dance is proud to be part of an ongoing National Portfolio Organisation consortium led by Siobhan Davies Studios, supported using public funding by Arts Council England. Funders and partners in 2021 & 2022 Arts Council England The Leverhulme Trust Sadler’s Wells Perform Europe Fest En Fest Center for Performance Research, New York Dance North Trinity Laban University of Roehampton University of Middlesex Dance HE Theatre, Dance and Performance Training Journal Centre for Performance Philosophy, University of Surrey Centre for Dance Research, Coventry University Women’s Art Library, Goldsmiths Library Special Collections and Archives Siobhan Davies Studios

creative people

beyond the box cic

BEYOND THE BOX IS A LONDON BASED CREATIVE PRACTICE.  WE SPECIALISE IN MULTICULTURAL RESEARCH AND CULTURAL PLACE-MAKING THROUGH YOUTH AND COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT.  WE WORK WITH COMMUNITIES TO CO-PRODUCE CREATIVE AND CULTURAL EXPERIENCES, TO BETTER UNDERSTAND THEIR NEEDS, AND LIVED EXPERIENCES, HELPING THEM FIND THEIR VOICE AND USE THAT VOICE WITH VIGOUR. WE COLLABORATE WITH OTHERS WHO BELIEVE IN GETTING MUCH BETTER OUTCOMES FROM WORKING WITH PEOPLE.  OUR EXPERTISE IN CREATING SOCIAL IMPACT DRIVES REAL CHANGE ON THE GROUND FOR THE PEOPLE AND COMMUNITIES WE WORK WITH, WHILST SIMULTANEOUSLY GATHERING INSIGHTS FOR PARTNERS. 

clod ensemble

CLOD ENSEMBLE create provocative, finely crafted performance and participation projects driven by movement and music. For over 25 years, director Suzy Willson and composer Paul Clark have developed a highly original performance language, in collaboration with dancers, actors, musicians, medics, architects and orchestras. Our core team work from our studios in the Design District on Greenwich Peninsula, and we work with a wide range of freelance artists on each project. Each production has a unique visual identity and distinctive musical score. Highlights include Silver Swan, featuring a choir of seven unaccompanied singers; Under Glass, where performers are contained within glass cases, from a jam jar to a test tube; An Anatomie in Four Quarters in which the audience cut a path through the auditorium of a large theatre and Red Ladies, a chorus of identically dressed women who transform, celebrate and interrupt the familiar streets of a city. Our work is presented in London, across the UK and internationally in theatres, dance houses, galleries and public spaces including Sadler’s Wells, Tate Modern, The Lowry, Wales Millennium Centre, Serralves Museum Porto and Public Theater New York. Our approach to performance making embraces difference and ambiguity, allowing us to work with complex ideas in complex systems. Each of our projects upholds movement, music and visual languages as vital ways of knowing, learning, and communicating. We offer a wide-reaching programme of education and participation projects in schools, higher education institutions and NHS Trusts. These different areas of our work overlap, creating fertile ground for dialogue, debate and collaboration. We offer a rich programme of Talent Development, developing the next generation of music, dance and interdisciplinary artists. Through learning programmes we inspire young people through music and movement in formal education settings and beyond. Performing Medicine is our award-winning, sector-leading initiative, primarily focused on the education and wellbeing of healthcare workers – developing their skills through creative practice so they can build healthier, respectful, caring, creative communities.