Class & Workshop dates, Performances, Presentations, Podcasts & Publications
Work in progress sharing of performance trilogy ‘story, scale, still’ by Mary Paterson, Jenny Miller and Alexandra Baybutt
30 Oct 2026, Calder bookshop, The Cut, SE1 8LF, London, UK, free (sold out)
Moving Voice Research Labs
Workshops for singers with Ali Baybutt and Jenny Miller, Barefoot Opera
Do you want self-connection with your whole body, more spontaneity, and more confidence to move/sound/play with others?
In five sessions, which can be taken as a whole (recommended) or partially, we offer practical exercises to prepare your body, your breath and your voice for supported, expressive singing/performing.
What do these old chestnuts mean: ‘singing on the breath’, ‘using support’, ‘singing in the mask’? How can we discover the qualities behind these concepts? We will also address: ‘warm up’; ‘being in the middle of the action’; ‘ending the phrase/beginning freshly’; ‘finding freedom within constraint’; ‘image and imagination’ and more!
We know these capacities change and will change throughout the course of your career. These sessions are a space to research or ‘lab’ your own questions and current needs together with other artists.
We aim for these sessions to be supportive for singers, and also actors, dancers and instrumentalists interested in and motivated by unlocking more of their potential in performance.
Moving Voice sessions come in five parts. You can attend all five classes for £20 per class; if you attend 3 of the 5 classes it’s £25; the cost of attending one class is £35.
November 17th, December 15th 2026, January 12th, February 2nd, March 9th 2027
I am leading a dance improvisation class for Wednesday Moving about/through/with space
Wednesday 2 Dec, 6:45-8pm, Round Chapel Old School Rooms, Powerscroft Road, Hackney E5 0PU
Screening a selection of films by Ines Von Bonhorst and Yuri Pirondi
I’m hosting an evening of a selection of works by Ines and Yuri (we collaborated on a series of projects in 2014-15 under the name Tor)
26 May 2027, UCL East, Pool Street Cinema, free.
Barefoot Opera’s ‘Così fan tutte?!’
Spring – Autumn 2026
Director: Jenny Miller
Music director and keyboard: Lesley Anne Sammons
Vocal consultant: Penelope Randall Davis
Costume designer: Wendy Olver
Movement director: Alexandra Baybutt
Lighting design: Jack Hathaway
Assistant movement director: Maya Dagan
Assistant musical director: Boaz Johnson
Double bass: Amy Baldwin
Stage manager: Eric Moll
Performers: Joel Robson, Katerina Oikonomou, Bartosz Thiede, Oscar Castellino, Zac Conibear, Mahtab Ghmsari, Ilona Nastase, Zara Donaldson, Ruby Caddick Laurence
Fun things that happened in summer 2026 include:
Sharing ‘Heel Rock for Radio‘ at Chisenhale Dance Space in August.
Performing/creating with Amy Mauvan and others on her invitation to be part of a 48-hour building take-over of Studio Wayne McGregor, Here East, in August.
Performing/creating with Marguerite Galizia for sculptor Rita Evans in July (film forthcoming).
Presenting some studio sharings of spontaneous composition practice with Emily Yuiming in August.
Writing some pieces that will come out next year for the Journal of Dance and Somatic Practices on my work with Play As We Are/Moving Strings, and for Theatre, Dance and Performance Training journal edition on life transitions, with ‘A sestina for Gill and Carrie’. Maya Felixbrot and I are currently working on a video essay for the Journal of Embodied Research special edition ‘On Music’ under the guidance of Mira Benjamin and Scott McLaughlin.
Initiating a collective investigation project, the earth hath bubbles, with Avital Barak through UCL Methods Lab.
Laban/Bartenieff Movement System modular training
I’m a registered somatic movement educator and teach on ISMETA-approved training programmes: with the WholeMovement Laban/Bartenieff Movement System in Italy, and contribute to EMove Institute‘s programme in the Netherlands. This involves teaching practice and theory, assessing, supervising and contributing to curriculum development.
What is the Laban/Bartenieff Movement System?
LBMS is a system of movement analysis and observation. It is also a somatic practice.
Performing for Heni Hale
In 2025 I was part of a research and performance project with Heni Hale for her practice-based PhD. Here is a clip of our work that was presented at the Wellcome Trust in November.
Maya, Alex and I had a great time hosting our third summer retreat in 2025 for musicians of all kinds at OT301, Amsterdam and fourth event at the Batavierhuis, Rotterdam along with Yanna Pelser in 2026. Thank you to everyone who joined us! And who we met last summer at the Dalcroze Symposium and the European String Teachers Association. This autumn, musicians and movers are invited to join Moving Strings/Play As We Are for company class.
Listen to podcast interviews of Alexandra Baybutt
by Gemma Harman for ResDance (2024) and with Stephen Moynihan (2025) for Shapes In Motion.
