Open Professional Dance Classes

He has danced for Jose Agudo’s dance project with Akademi, toured nationally with Tavaziva Dance, Union Dance Company, and Phoenix Dance Company, as well as dancing for the West End’s production of the Lion King, Ballet Black, Aletta Collins Dance Company, State of Emergency, and Rosie Kay Dance Company

Aside from commercial dance contracts, and film engagements, Gerrard has danced for the National Theatre, toured internationally with the English National Opera, and the Royal Opera House.

Gerrard has taught on the Classes & Courses programme at The Place and has taught on the BA & MA Acting / Musical Theatre courses at Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts, the CAT programme at Trinity Laban and the Children Youth Dance at The Place. Gerrard was an associate lecturer at the University of Northampton, and a dance, yoga, and movement teacher at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama.

Gerrard has choreographed for Sadlers Wells, Tate Modern, Outbox Theatre, Longborough Opera, British Museum, Pegasus Opera, and the National Portrait Gallery. The West Bengal Federation of Dance, India commissioned Gerrard’s choreography for World Dance Day.

He created his project-based company Gerrard Martin Dance in 2011 and has had work featured at the Tate Modern, The Place, Curve Theatre, The Royal College of Music, Lyric Hammersmith, National Portrait Gallery, RichMix and at the Dance West, A Time to Breathe, Emerge, Between the Lines, South Bank Urban, Let’s Dance International, and Cloud Dance Festivals. Gerrard’s work has also been selected for  the Ident Festival, The Field Film Festival, UK and the Athens Video Dance Project, Greece.

Gerrard aims to produce works of emotive and socially relevant dance-theatre; to teach and facilitate creativity through movement, yoga, and dance, and wishes to collaborate and engage with artists across different mediums.

He has been a movement director on productions such as:  Breaking the Code (Royal & Derngate), Black Superhero (Royal Court Theatre), Foxes (Theatre 503, Peckham Theatre & 59E59 Theatres, NYC), The Frontline (The Embassy Theatre), GHB Boy, (Charring Cross Theatre) BEAM (Britten Pears Theatre), CAKE (Theatre Peckham),  6O Miles by Road or Rail (Royal & Derngate), Lady Macwata (Apple Cart Arts) and Shepard’s Chameleon (Bussey Building).

He was an assistant choreographer on the English National Opera’s (Olivier Award winning) Porgy and Bess, One Love Musical, (Bob Marley), and the 40th UAE Royal Anniversary Performance, Abu Dhabi. Currently Gerrard was the associate choreographer for West End’s Stranger Things: The First Shadow.

Gerrard is the co-founder of Black Artists in Dance, (BAiD), the co-founder of the Pathways House Collective, a movement facilitator for Micro Rainbow, a theatre reviewer for Afridiziak Theatre News, part of the first cohort of The Kerry Nicholls Dance Mentoring Programme and is a trained Yoga teacher.

BULLYACHE is an artist duo founded in 2021 by Courtney Deyn and Jacob Samuel. They make live music videos for the stage: choreographing, directing, and composing original works that merge music, avant-garde dance theatre, and pop culture spectacle. Think Pina Bausch cosplaying as Dua Lipa—ballroom meets noise, exhaustive dance training meets media theory, all distilled into radical, cutting-edge choreographic performance.  

 BULLYACHE have made two previous full length works,TOM and Who Hurt You?, that have toured and sold-out internationally. Their third work, A Good Man is Hard to Find had its world premiere on July 24th 2025 at the Venice Biennale. 

JONA DANCE is a project based contemporary dance company situated in London. It was founded in 2019 by dance artist and creative, Monique Jonas, our current Artistic Director.  

Jona Dance was born out of years of noticing the lack of cultural diversity within the contemporary dance industry in the UK, and a desire to promote a message of inclusivity. Here at Jona, we believe that art is created by the people, for the people; so we intend on creating work that is inclusive and accessible to more than just a select few. We work to promote the inclusivity of experiences through art by offering alternative narratives, boosting visibility and understanding the impact of positive representation in dance. 

We are a movement based organisation that aims to foster and facilitate spaces that amplify “silenced” voices and give platforms for marginalised voices of the African Diaspora to be seen and heard.  Drawing from Lived experience in the UK and focusing on UK based artists, we aspire to bring a well rounded foundation to the company so that we can facilitate a safe and professional space for artists to thrive. Whilst there is an intentional focus to uplift and support artists of colour, here at JONA DANCE, our doors are open to dancers from all backgrounds and all walks of life. 

We started our artistic journey with a solo titled Toh-Kuhn, which explored the nuances of Black-British Life. This was later developed into a full length work for three dancers, which premiered at The Place Theatre in 2020. Since then we have gone on to create work for Ballet Black, Rambert School, National Youth Ballet, Reebok and London Fashion Week to name a few. We created our second full length work Siren Calls to an Illusive Journey in 2022, which premiered in Leicester at the Let’s Dance International Frontiers Festival.  

For us, it’s about delivering high quality dance services with the interests of people at our core. It’s about building connection, exploring humanity and daring to challenge the norm. 

Akeim Toussaint Buck is an award-winning interdisciplinary performer and maker, born in Jamaica and raised in England. Graduating from The Northern School of Contemporary Dance in 2014, Akeim began creating his own work in 2015, launching Toussaint To Move in 2016 with the creation of ‘Windows of Displacement’. TTM’S intention is to create moving, thought provoking, accessible and free-spirited projects.  

Exploring a variety of themes to challenge, enlighten and entertain audiences in a visceral way, calling on multiple art forms to weave a spectacle. Audiences are invited to not just observe, they are implicit in the experience. The work aims to reflect on reality, looking at ongoing socio-political issues, with a humanitarian intention. 

 The aesthetic of Toussaint’s work combines dance and other art forms such as; creative writing, film, poetry, beat-box, singing and acting to tell stories capable of bringing a variety of audiences together. Akeim’s movement is informed by methodologies of KickBoxing, Yoga, Capoeira, Caribbean Dance, Hip Hop and Contemporary Dance. Improvisation and acute listening are at the core of Toussaint’s practice of vocalisation and movement, called Beatmotion. The artist embraces the holistic potential of performance to translate the affective dimension of socio-political realities.
Achievements include: 

Irie Dance Theatre’s, Artist in Residence for 2019-2020, becoming the Artist for Northern School of Contemporary Dance, Yorkshire Dance and Spin Arts’ Catapult Programme 2019. Associate Artist 2020-2022 at Deda in Derby. Associate Artist at Geraldine Connor Foundation. Awarded Arts Foundation Futures Award for Dance Theatre in 2023. Continued support from Yorkshire Dance, Leeds Playhouse, Leeds Inspired, IRIE! Dance Theatre, Spin Arts, Serendipity, NSCD, Sadlers Wells and Arts Council England.

 Earthflow
I call my classes Earthflow, as my intention in my physical practice is to feel connected to the ground whilst seeking to find flow and expansion in my movement. Expect some set material and improvisation stimuli to investigate and interrogate. This approach of movement is inspired by Contemporary and Caribbean Dance Elements, Release Technique, Animal Flow, Yoga, Elements of Hip Hop and Capoeira.

Together we seek liberation and flow, strengthening our connection to the earth both physically and energetically, seeking to find elasticity in our movement. We’ll creatively explore cyclical movement patterns and rhythms, travelling through the space, inviting curiosity, accuracy, breath and clarity. In an energetic and playful environment, we’ll revitalise our senses, build strength, stamina and open our awareness as we move together as a community.

Class will be accompanied by live music (beatbox, vocal improv loop station). 

Hip-hop dance theatre company, Far From The Norm’s workshops are based on delving into the range of street dance styles from Popping to Hip-Hop, House to Krump. Through this, the company strives towards activating and energising participants through the exploration of freestyle and improvisation, using their methodology and movement vocabulary in providing an insight into their choreographic devices.