Ana Meireles

With a background as a professional contemporary dancer, I bring my embodied understanding of movement to the different contexts I engage with, from working with actors in drama conservatoires, to supporting a production from a movement director's lens. I have an interest in somatic approaches, improvisation and functional movement and bring these specialisms together when facilitating movement work in theatre and dance contexts.
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I aim to continue dreaming effective approaches to movement, in professional, educational, outreach and community settings, and to be involved with making work for stage, screen and site-specific locations.

Ana Meireles (she/her)

Credits

Co-choreographer: EYE-I, KWAM Collective at London Studio Centre.

Movement Director: Beat Poetry, directed by Gemma Aked-Priestley, Omnibus Clapham

Movement Director: Short film What is a Body, directed by Arturo Bandinelli - with KWAM Collective. London 2022

Movement Associate to Ingrid Mackinnon: Red Riding Hood, directed by Robert Shaw– Stratford East 2021

Movement Director - Girl in a Mirror – devising and overseeing movement work for a demo reel - UK 2021

Movement Director: The Runner – R&D and public sharing with Clown Funeral Theatre Company – Greenwich Theatre, UK 2021

Movement Coach: Hamlet by William Shakespeare - Royal Central School of Speech and Drama. Collaborated with director Michael Fry and with BA Acting MT 2nd year students working online, staging the dumbshow, supporting character work and facilitating movement warm-ups 2020

Movement director: Heroines in Limbo by Nicole Acquah - Royal Central School of Speech and Drama. Collaborated with MA/MFA ATP directors and respective team of actors to generate a response to the play. 2020

Movement director: Sleepwalking by Hannah Kalhil, directed by Audrey Sheffield at the Hampstead Studio. Worked with the company in creating the physical life of the play 2020

Actor movement teacher: Mentored by Rose Ryan - Guildford School of Acting. Worked with BA (Hons) Acting 1st year students, leading seven 1’45” sessions on Observation and Translation and Laban Efforts 2020

Movement assistant to Mandy Gordon: Boudica by Tristan Bernays, directed by Jon Pashley at the Courtyard Theatre (Royal Central School of Speech and Drama) and Leicester Curve. Worked with BA (Hons) Acting Musical Theatre 3rd year students, supporting preparation and delivery of the movement work 2020

Movement director: The Cosmonaut’s Last Message to the Woman He Once Loved in the Former Soviet Union by David Greig, directed by Nadia Papachronopoulou at the PATS Theatre, Guildford School of Acting. Mentored by Rose Ryan, worked with BA (Hons) Acting 3rd Year students in creating the physical life of the play, ranging from character to ensemble work 2019

Actor movement teacher: Mentored by Debbie Green - Royal Central School of Speech and Drama. Worked with BA (Hons) Acting 1st Year students, leading seven sessions on Free-flow in the movement fundamentals curricula 2019

Visiting Lecturer - RCSSD / ALRA/ GSA - Movement - ongoing

Training

2018 - 2020 The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, MA Movement: Directing and Teaching

2009 - 2012 London Studio Centre, University of the Arts London, 1st Class B.A (Hons) Theatre Dance

2004 - 2009 Royal Academy of Dance, Advanced II Diploma in RAD syllabus