Some people come into Pilates through sport or rehab. My path was different. Before opening my studio in Camberwell, I spent many years working in the world of movement, performance, and choreography. It was a life shaped by rhythm, detail, and the discipline of knowing your own body well enough to trust it under pressure. Those years gave me a way of understanding movement that still guides how I teach today.

My career unfolded across stages in London and Europe, working with companies, composers, and artists whose work demanded precision and presence. I created and performed in pieces that explored breath, stillness, weight shifts, and the quiet mechanics behind how people move through space. Reviews, interviews, and festival work became part of that journey, but the real learning came from the hours spent refining ideas that lived inside the body long before they reached an audience.

Choreography taught me how to see alignment in a single glance. Performance taught me how to read tension before it becomes strain. Collaboration taught me the value of adapting in the moment. These aren’t things you leave behind when you change direction. They shape the way you listen to people when they move, the way you guide them, and the way you help them build confidence in the small adjustments they make over time.

When I shifted my focus toward Pilates, it wasn’t a departure from my past. It was a continuation of it — a chance to work with movement in a quieter, more personal setting. The studio lets me help people tune into the same qualities that mattered so much on stage: control, breath, clarity, and a grounded sense of ease in the body. The work is slower, but no less intentional.

For anyone who has followed my earlier projects, this page now holds the broad outline of that chapter. The detailed reviews, interviews, and production notes have been retired from the main site, but their influence remains in the way I teach. If you’re here out of curiosity about the path that led me to Pilates, this overview is where that story now lives.

If you would like to learn more about how that background informs my approach today, you’re always welcome to visit the studio or explore the work we do through one-to-one Reformer sessions in Camberwell.