Laura Careless

Guest Contemporary dance teacher

Styles

  • Ballet

  • Contemporary

Teaches

  • BATCH Ballet and Contemporary

Training

  • Royal Ballet School, London

  • Ecole-Atelier of Maurice Bejart, Switzerland

  • The Juilliard School Dance Division, USA

Teaching and dance education has been an equal passion with performing throughout Laura’s career. She was on faculty at The New York Public School for Dance, a pre-professional training programme for children from all 5 boroughs of NYC, for ten years, and has been a Curriculum Specialist for Juilliard’s K-12 department since 2017. Other teaching credits include Yale University, Harvard University, The Juilliard School, Broadway Dance Center and Sussex Dance Network. She is currently working with Rambert as their Dance Education Consultant designing and developing Rambert Classroom, an online resource for schools, and teaches regular dance-based wellbeing workshops at About Balance in Brighton. Through her teaching, she seeks to empower students to move like themselves, prioritising their physical, mental and soulful wellbeing.

Laura is a Brighton-based dance artist. She believes that self-expression through movement is a human birthright. Through dance performance and education, she advocates for the reclamation and rewilding of our physical instincts.

Laura is a graduate of The Royal Ballet School, London; the Ecole-Atelier of Maurice Bejart in Lausanne, Switzerland; and The Juilliard School Dance Division in New York City, where she received the John Erskine Prize for Artistic and Academic Excellence. Upon graduation from Juilliard, Laura became a founding member and Principal Performer at Company XIV, a multi-media production company. XIV’s performances blend dance with theatre, opera, circus, burlesque and opulent design in live performance and film and have been recognised by the Drama Desk, Bessie, and New York Independent Theater Awards. Laura has also worked as a guest artist with Buglisi Dance Theatre, Aszure Barton and Artists and the Metropolitan Opera.

Laura’s solo performance work includes She-Wolves (shewolvesproject.com) her one-woman show about the forgotten female rulers of England before Elizabeth I. This was recognised by 5 star reviews at its Edinburgh Fringe premiere, and will return to Edinburgh in August 2022. She also performs in Rebel Boob, a post-verbatim production based on interviews with women who have received a breast cancer diagnosis, which will tour the UK in October 2022.