Tutorial Shorts Belly Spin | London Contemporary Dance School
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Learn from London Contemporary Dance School’s amazing faculty of lecturers in our incredible new series Tutorial Shorts! Every month we’ll be releasing a new tutorial video featuring best practice when learning dance technique. This video has our Flying Low and Passing Through teacher Leila McMillan demonstrating how to perform a belly spin!
About Leila
Leila McMillan is a London based dance artist, who creates work that is high-energy yet nuanced and abstract in its choreography, drawing on personal experiences focusing on themes of identity, gender and the cultural interface. Her full length work Family Portrait(2015), was presented throughout the UK; new work Curl of hairis set to launch in 2020. Leila was a Wild Card artist of Sadler’s Wells curating, This Way, That Way (2015), at Lilian Baylis, an evening of dance, music and art. She was Artist in Residence at Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts (2017) creating a new work 3 fingers at arm’s Length,nominated for ‘Outstanding Choreography’ Hong Kong Dance Alliance Awards 2018. Other commissions include London Contemporary Dance School, Verve and East London Dance, new commission for Pera (Cyprus) in 2020. She holds a BA Contemporary Dance Theatre and MA in Performance from Trinity Laban, has worked with artists including David Zambrano, Crystal Pite, Thomas Lehmen, Wendy Houstoun, Vicky Amedume, Jasmina Krizaj & Nina Fajdiga.Since receiving a place on David Zambrano’s 50 Days Flying Low and Passing Through (2010), Leila is now one of the internationally certified artists teaching this method, and has led the development of this approach in the UK. She is Lecturer at London Contemporary Dance School and has taught throughout the UK, Europe, Middle East, Asia, United States and South America. From 2012 she has collaborated with Angolan visual artist Isaac Carlos as co-founders of Muxima, an Independent cafe in Bow, East London, regularly producing art, music and performance events, awarded several times ‘Best Cafe in East London’.