Ben Ash Ben has worked for over 10 years with many world renowned choreographers including Charles Linehan, Wayne Macgregor, Richard Alston, Siobhan Davies, Rosmary Butcher, Rosemary Lee, Finn Walker, Arthur Pita, Wally Cardona (New York), Vasco Wellenkamp (Portugal) and Jan Puch (Germany).
Dance for Film work includes Soft Materials directed by Daria Martin and Javier de Frutos and Issac Julien’s 2001 Turner prize film exhibition at the Tate Briton (finalists).
Ben’s first choreographic collaboration with Rachel Lopez de la Nieta was the short film ‘So do I’ directed by Lucy Baldwin in which they both featured. Choreographic work outside Dog Kennel Hill Project includes Tranquilizer for Resolution!98 and commissioned works for students at London Contemporary Dance School (research and development project/studio presentation) and Underneath for London Studio Centre.
Ben has participated in the 2004 SDDC bank project for professional development, the Gulbenkian course for choreographers and Composers, and the PAL Arts laboratory. Ben has performed Operas choreographed by Michael Keegan Dolan in London, Europe and the USA.
He regularly teaches professional level class at Greenwich Dance Agency and Independent Dance, and has led company class for Random Dance, Protein, Charles Linehan Company and Companhia de Bailado Contemporaneo Portuguesa. He has taught students at London Contemporary Dance School, Rambert School, The Circus Space and is currently teaching at London Studio Centre, Millenium School and Laban Centre. Ben trained at the Arts Educational School London and at the Rambert School.

Henry Montes is a freelance dance maker, performer and teacher. He has performed for many independent choreographers and companies in New York and Europe including Susanne Linke Company, Tanztheater Reinhild Hoffmann, Keely Garfield, Kirstie Simson, K.J. Holmes, Gaby Agis, Charles Linehan, Kate Brown, Rosemary Butcher and Jonathan Burrows Group. Henry joined Siobhan Davies Dance in 1998 and was awarded the 2003 Critics Circle National Dance Award for Outstanding Male Artist for his performance in Plants and Ghosts. He studies Yoga and the Alexander Technique and is a registered Craniosacral Therapist.

Gill Clarke is an Independent Dance artist/ movement researcher. She was a founder member of the Siobhan Davies Dance Company and has also performed and collaborated with other choreographers including Rosemary Butcher, Rosemary Lee and Janet Smith.
Gill leads masterclasses and workshops internationally for students, independent artists and professional companies. Gill is Co-director of Independent Dance – an organisation programming workshops, talks etc to support professional dance artists in their development. Gill has recently completed a video installation, Stones and Bones made in collaboration with videographer Becky Edmunds and sound artist Scott Smith.

John Stirk's work has evolved over a period of 35 years. He has taught yoga for 34 years and practised osteopathy for 25 years. He taught remedial classes to students at the Royal Academy of Dance in London, conducted body-mind workshops with R.D. Laing in the late 1970’s with whom he studied for many years. He graduated as an osteopath in London in 1983 and lectured in bio-mechanics and practical osteopathy at the College of Osteopaths in London and was made a Fellow of the College in 1995. John has been teaching yoga since 1974 and had personal tuition from Vanda Scaravelli in Florence, for several years and provided yoga teacher training courses in London from 1998-2004. He is the author of two books, ‘Soft Exercise’ published in 1983 and ‘Structural Fitness’ published in 1988.

Currently John works with groups and gives workshops, residentials and classes in the U.K , Europe, the U.S.A. and Australia for yoga students, yoga teachers, osteopaths, psychotherapists and bodyworkers.

Charlie Morrissey is a performer teacher director and researcher who has been working in the UK and in many other countries around the world for 17 years.

He creates large and small scale site specific and theatre and gallery based performance work in diverse contexts.

His teaching is informed by ongoing working collaborations with Steve Paxton, Scott Smith, Lisa Nelson, Kirstie Simson, K.j.Holmes, and many others. Visit www.charliemorrissey.com for more info

Christian Burns has performed, taught and choreographed as an independent artist for various dance companies, schools and art centers around the United States, Europe and Asia. His choreographic and dance-video work has received several awards, grants, artist fellowships and artists-in-residencies and he is the co-founder of The Foundry, an interdisciplinary dance company based in San Francisco. Christian was recently a guest artist with The Forsythe Company for the creation of Equivalence, which premiered in Dresden Germany. Christian currently resides in Holyoke Massachusetts where he and his collaborators are renovating the nineteenth century Parsons Hall, into a live work and a dance residency facility. Visit www.christianburns.net

Past teachers have included: Jeremy Nelson, Gaby Agis, Lauren Potter, Rahel Vonmoos, Scott Smith, Kathy Crick, Andrea Buckley, Sasha Roubicek, Rachel, Krische, Matthias Sperling, Henry Montes, Gill Clarke, Lisa Nelson, Kirstie Simson, Christian Burns and Henrietta Hale.