Paola Napolitano

Paola is a Certified Movement Analyst (Laban/Bartenieff Movement Studies), Dancer and Choreographer.

As a dancer, she has worked in a variety of settings including theatre, museum, arts exhibition.

Credits include dancing for Le Mouvement Performing the City, Bienne (CH) in The Huddle, choreographed by Simone Forti, and for LCP dance company at the Bernie Arts Centre with choreographer Mimmo Miccolis. Paola has danced at The Linnean Society of London in LOST, live performance by Foreign Investment-Monika Oechsler, and at Urban Moves International Festival, Manchester in The story of a night pianist, choreographed by Anna Buonomo.

Paola has facilitated dance workshops in educational and community settings as well as internationally on behalf of private organizations. She has developed interdisciplinary arts projects, such as Scales of Intangibility, collaborating with resident visual artist S. Eyre at Chisenhale Art Place, and SELphOBiA, presented at Emerge Festival and The Space Theatre, in London, in 2016.

“Playful enquiry is at the core of my learning. Empathetic listening is vital to my teaching. Any movement or dance class is the perfect playground for creative, human exchange.”