DARREN
ROYSTON


WINNER of the BONNIE BIRD CHOREOGRAPHY AWARD (1997)


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CREDENTIALS

 

Professional Training

  • New York Film Academy (Movement Coaching for film)
  • National TV & Film School , UK (Choreography for film)
  • LABAN Centre for Movement and Dance
    PhD Research Degree programme
    MA (Distinction) Dance Studies
  • Lisa Ullmann Travel Scholarship ( Iceland )
  • Historical Dance: Nonsuch History & Dance, Dance Research Committee ISTD, Madeleine Inglehearn , Phillippa Waite, Barbara Segal, Barry Grantham, Nicola Gaines, Christine & Ellis Rogers, Nira Pullin , Richard Powers, Sue Lefton , Geraldine Stephenson.
  • Queens' College, CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY
    MA ( Cantab ) / BA ( Hons ) English Literature
  • The National Youth Theatre of Great Britain  
  • Katrina Hughes School of Dance & Theatre Arts
  • British Ballet Organisation: Advanced Tap (Honours).

Teaching posts:

  • RADA (Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts), London :

Acting Teacher (Dance & Movement)
Historical Dance & Period Movement: including Medieval, Renaissance, The Nineteenth Century Ballroom, 1920's;
Choreography for productions (Shakespeare, Ibsen, Musicals, Contemporary Drama),
Acting Shakespeare course (Moving in Shakespeare's World).

  • NYU Tisch / RADA Programme:

Renaissance Dance & Shakespeare

  • NONSUCH History & Dance:

Summer Schools (UK & Spain),
Morley College (Adult Education classes)
Education Unit (Primary Schools TUDORS)

  • SEMANA LIRICA INTERNACIONAL DE TARAZONA 2005, Spain

Movement for Opera Singers

  • THE ARTS CLUB, London

Adult classes: Charleston, Fred Astaire

  • Rose Bruford College

Movement for Actors: Expressive Movement, Laban

  • Drama Centre, London

Period Dance

  • London College of Music

Movement in Opera

  • Professional Associations:

The European Association of Dance Historians (Hon. Secretary)
The Society for Dance Research (UK)
The National Choreographers Forum, Dance UK.
The Laban Guild for Movement & Dance
The William Morris Society
Equity – Choreographers' Committee