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Meet the Dancers

Alexander Love

Alexander graduated from theLondon Contemporary Dance School (LCDS) in 2022 with a first class honours degree. He performed with the James Cousins and Two Faced Dance companies while there. His most recent performance saw him take to the West End stage in a Flamenco/contemporary fusion called House of Flamenka directed by Arlene Philips. Alex was fortunate to be part of the Ballet Boyz apprentice program in his last year at LCDS and joined them on their Deluxe Tour. Alongside this heal so performed ‘He’s dead’ by Marikiscrycry with shows in the UK and Europe.

In 2019 he joined Mathew Bourne’s New Adventures Company as a young artist performing in Romeo and Juliet in Leicester and Birmingham. Alexander was a company member of National Youth Dance Company for two years working with Damien Jalet and Sharon Eyal.

Divija Melally

Divija Melally is a trained contemporary and Indian classical dancer, graduated from Bath Spa University, with BA (Hons) Dance,dedicated to the arts, and spreading the intricate nuances of dance through performance,teaching, choreography and therapy. She has completed a 2-year diploma in Movement Arts and Mixed Media, which focused on ballet, contemporary and martial arts, from Attakkalari Centre forMovement Arts, India. Her creative practice revolves around exploring the amalgamation ofcontemporary and Indian Classical dance. She is interested in creating works that exploresocial and political themes, and she hopes to help the audience be more aware of the world that they live in through her art. She has recently received the ‘Moving With The Times’ commission from Pegasus Theatre, to create a work on intergenerational trauma from a racial perspective. She wants to inform her practice further by conducting workshops for participants of different ages, needs and abilities.

Joseph Powell Main

Joe began dancing in Mid-Wales at the age of five. Between the ages of eight and ten, he trained with the Royal Ballet School and Elmhurst School for Dance on the Junior Associate and pre-vocational programmes.

In 2009 Joe successfully auditioned for the Royal Ballet School, White Lodge Richmond Park. Joe trained at the school for three and a half years. Following a period of injuries,surgery and then being involved in a car accident, Joe acquired his disability. As a student Joe performed with the Royal Ballet, Birmingham Royal Ballet, and English Youth Ballet. Joe also performed for HRH Princess Alexandra.Joe returned to dance using a wheelchair through Latin and Ballroom. This led to him studying a degree in Dance and Performance at the Arden School of Theatre, which he graduated from in 2020 with first class honours.

Joe worked with Ballet Cymru as a company member between 2020 and 2021. Joe is the first dancer using a wheelchair to perform with the Royal Ballet.Since 2022 Joe has been a freelancer. Recent collaborations include Sleepwalker (The Royal Ballet), I am 8 Workshops and R&D (Sweetshop Revolution) and Choreographer/Performer Undone (One Young World Opening Ceremony 2022).

Josie Sinnadurai

Josie is a Welsh flamenco and contemporary dancer based in Seville. She gained her BA and MA in contemporarydance from London Contemporary Dance School and studied flamenco at various schools in Madrid and Seville. She now regularly tours internationally performing and choreographing as a flamenco and flamenco-fusion artist.

Marine Tournet

Marine is originally from Paris and trained at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music & Dance. After graduating in 2017, she moved to Cardiff to dance with National Dance Company Wales, first as an apprentice, then stayed for almost 6 years. She toured throughout the UK, Europe and Asia,performing work by a range ofinternational choreographers including Marcos Morau, Caroline Finn, Andrea Costanzo Martini,Fernando Melo, Anthony Matsena, Roy Assaf and Marina Mascarell, among others.

Whilst working as a freelance artist in between contracts with NDCWales, she worked with Welsh National Opera, Matteo Marfoglia,Laila Diallo, Zosia Jo (Joon Dance), Marc Rees and Gundija Zandersona.

Marine just left her beloved Wales and relocated to London to embrace a fresh new chapter in her freelancing career.

Rose Noble Booth

Rose is originally from Australia, and completed her professional training at Rambert school of ballet and contemporary dance.
”I have been fortunate enough to have completed projects all over the Uk and I’m very excited to continue my knowledge and understanding of this incredible art form!”

Rose will be performing with the company whilst Marine recovers from an injury.

Director:

Sally Marie

Sally Marie trained at Central School of Ballet and worked with amongst others, Protein Dance, Sean Tuan John,Jasmin Vardimon, Tilted Productions, H2, Frauke Requart and Deja Donne.

During her onstage career in the UKand internationally she received four nominations as Best Female Performer fromboth Dance Europe and the National Dance Awards, along with a Spotlight Award for new talent.

Of her two initial solos, ‘The Extra’ was performed at The Linbury, Royal Opera House. And various full-length works followed between 2008-18: the anti-war ‘Dulce et Decorum’; Tree,’ about our connection to nature; ’I loved you and I loved you’focused on Welshcomposer Morfydd Owen; and ‘BeautifuL,’ about women’s sexuality.

Aside from running her company, Sally has been movement director for John Retallack’s national tour ‘Hanna and Hannah in Dreamland’ and ‘Archipelago’ directed by Stephan Wrentmore. She also choreographed ‘Nerve’ for Baron’s Court Theatre and the musical ‘Reasons to be Cheerful by GRAEAE for Theatre Royal, Stratford East.

Commissions have included ‘Cherry Pops and Frozen Snow’ for Edge Hill University, ‘Ice Dust Chronicle’ for Images Ballet Company, ‘W O N D E R L A N D’ for Northern School of Contemporary Danceand ‘Palma Violets, Crimson Smile’ for the Centre for Advanced Training inBirmingham. In June of this year she received a MOTUS commission to make a children’s piece, ‘Silver Things and Cloud Things’ for The King Edward Theatrein Milton Keynes, as well as reworking ‘I am 8’ for an outdoor tour. In terms of community engagement, her project ‘Everyday People’, produced by The Dance Movement gave six members of the public the chance to choreograph on four professional dancers.

Designer:

Minnie Sandbach

Minnie Sandbach is a Brighton based artist spanning illustration painting and costume design. She’s passionate about storytelling, exorcising emotions through creating, inspired by childhood, the natural world, the surreal and the creeping shadows around the edges.

Composer:

Frank Moon

Raised in Cornwall, Frank trained at Birmingham Conservatoire, graduating with several composition awards and prizes. As a student Frank had begun collaborating with theatre practitioners,and in the few years that followed he produced scores for many plays. During this time in Birmingham, Frank also secured a lecturing post at Coventry University, teaching composition, performance, analysis and 20th Century music.

Eventually leaving the lecturing post to work as a freelance performer and composer, Frank's skills as a guitar and oud (Arabic lute) player and his passion for music of all cultures led himto work in a multitude of genres. Equally at home in folk, jazz, classical, gypsy swing, Balkan punk, African funk, Indian fusion, Cuban salsa, hip-hop, free improvisation, pop or mediaeval choirs, Frank has toured internationally with many ensembles and continues to draw on these multifarious influences in his compositions.

Frank's work as a composer includes many theatre and dance commissions, and an encounter with renowned choreographer Arthur Pita in 2010 was the beginning of a long standing collaboration. Frank's scores for Pita include two orchestral ballets - The Wind (Royal Ballet) and Salome (San Francisco Ballet); live scores for The Tenant (Joyce Theater New York), The Metamorphosis (Royal Opera House, winner of an Olivier award, a Sky Arts South Bank Award and the Critic's Circle National Dance Award), The Little Match Girl (Jerwood Dance East / Sadler's Wells), The World's Greatest Show (Royal OperaHouse), Facada (Segerstrom Centre, CA; Stanislavsky Theatre, Moscow; London Coliseum), Run Mary Run (Sadler's Wells / world tour), Utopia(International Dance Festival Birmingham), plus sound design work on Stepmother/Stepfather (UK tour), La Bala (Brazillian tour), and VolverVolver (London Colliseum). Scores for theatre and dance include The Little Prince (Protein), The Welcoming Party (Theatre Rites / ManchesterInternational Festival), Philip Pullman's I Was A Rat (Birmingham Rep), The BFG(Birmingham Rep), HAG (The Wrong Crowd; Edinburgh Festival / tour), and Barney Norris's award winning play Visitors (Up In Arms, UKtour). Short film scores include three commissions from English National Ballet- An Evening with Taglioni, Curing Albrecht and The Last Resort, plus several independent shorts.