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CREATIVE DIRECTORS: KATE SAGOVSKY & JOE WILD
Kate creates performance projects: she works across theatre, dance and live art as a director & movement director/choreographer, as well as doing extensive work as a teacher & workshop facilitator. She is Artistic Director of MOVING DUST.
Kate trained at Laban after graduating from Movement Studies (MA) at The Royal Central School of Speech & Drama & completing a degree in English Literature at Oxford. In 2010 she spent a month in New York at the Lincoln Centre Theater Directors’ Lab & attended The Directors’ Course at the National Theatre Studio.
Kate’s previous work as the director of MOVING DUST has been performed in theatre & dance festivals around the UK, including at The Edinburgh Fringe Festival, The Bush, The Place, The Arcola and The New Wolsey Theatre (Ipswich). Other productions include A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM (Cambridge Arts Theatre) and LOVE’S LABOUR’S LOST (The Metropolitan Arts Centre, Tokyo & UK Tour). Kate has also worked extensively as a movement director (including for: RSC; Nabokov; Paines Pough; Theatre Royal Stratford East; BAC; The Bush; The Oxford Playhouse); and as Associate Director for performances at the Barbican, Glastonbury, and the Queen Elizabeth Hall (Southbank Centre). In 2013 she worked as a Staff Director at the National Theatre on THE HUSH.
In 2011 Kate was the Resident Movement Practitioner at the Royal Shakespeare Company and she continues to work for them as a freelance Movement Practitioner and Education Associate Practitioner. She has led workshops and projects around the UK as a Movement Facilitator for RSC Open Stages and as a Director-Mentor on the RSC Learning Performance Network. Kate has taught Actor-Movement at many UK drama schools, & at AFDA Film School (Cape Town, South Africa). She currently teaches movement at Shakespeare’s Globe, including for the Rutger’s Conservatory.
JOE WILD is a theatre-maker, with a specialism in movement direction and pedagogy. He trained as a choreographer and dancer at Laban (BA Dance Theatre), and as a Movement Director at the Central School of Speech and Drama (MA Movement Studies). He is a dance lecturer on the BA Acting at Northampton University, and guest movement teacher at Identity Drama School. He has presented lecture performances at the Place, London, 2012 Psi conference, Leeds, Milan University and Calcutta University.
Joe’s movement direction work has forged numerous collaborations with internationally celebrated circus and theatre director and performance writer Firenza Guidi making work in Italy, Wales, France and India. Other movement direction credits include Give It a Name (Chapter, Cardiff), Hijinx (UK Tour), Blanche Macentire (Southwark Playhouse). Joe also works as a movement director for animation. He has taught MA charter Animation at Central St. Martins and collaborated with award winning director Vicky Mather on a short film for Lulu Guinness.
He has worked as a performer for Marie-Gabrielle Rotie HUMAN ZOO (Cochrane Theatre), Earthfall GRAVITAS (UK tour), Jean Abreu Dance Company INSIDE (UK Tour), Generating Company (Khalifa Stadium, Abu Dhabi) and Angela Woodhouse FINE LINE(Bonnie Bird Theatre).
As a performance maker, Joe has a long collaborative relationship with sound Artists Solarference with whom he founded FirstPerson Theatre (headphone theatre company) who showed work at the Basement (Brighton), Bradford Playhouse as well festivals throughout the UK such as Submit2Gravity and Transeuropa.
Joe’s own work has been supported by the Arts Council of Wales and Welsh Arts International in the creation of SIAMBER WEN and HOMELIFE (Touring in Britain, Italy and Sweden).
Joe is currently working as Movement Director on GRUESOME PLAYGROUND INJURIES, Directed by Justin Audibert, Produced by National Theatre Studios for The Gate