Associate Tutor (Movement Awareness)

A world-class drama school and educational charity, LAMDA – the London Academy of Music & Dramatic Art – delivers exceptional vocational training in the performing arts. LAMDA’s core aim is to train and develop the best artists regardless of social or financial background. The Academy is at an exciting time in its evolution, paving the way for drama school training in the 21st century and developing multi-skilled creative artists and technicians. In order to ensure that its work is accessible to all, LAMDA is passionately committed to widening participation and operates a robust scholarship scheme, awarding significant support to one in five full-time students each year.

The Role

A newly created role has arisen within the Drama school, where we are seeking an Associate Tutor (Movement Awareness).

You will be teaching awareness through movement using slow, mindful movements to achieve powerful effects in terms of strength, flexibility, and holistic integration of body and mind whilst providing a safe and inclusive environment that supports all of our students in their learning and development. The Movement Awareness Associate Tutor will tie directly into functional movements for actors inspired by daily life, such as walking efficiently, safely lifting objects, and improving one’s posture in sitting or standing. Movement Awareness classes always have a goal to be accessible to all and develop into applied movement awareness, facilitating and making clear the relationship between awareness, expression and creative risk-taking for actors.

It is essential that you have certification and experience in one or several experiential anatomy somatic practices, along with experience in working with professional actors and actors in training.

LAMDA offers a curriculum working with the Feldenkrais Method® for actors, and we give preference to Feldenkrais practitioners with experience in working with actors. We are also open to meeting practitioners whose practice includes other somatic methods that can achieve the above-mentioned goals. In addition, your awareness practice, experience in other somatic practices like expressive movement for actors (Lecoq, Grotowski, pure movement), dramatic acrobatics, dance, fight, and intimacy is very welcome as complementary to the Movement Awareness teaching in specific and the Movement department in general.

The ideal candidate will have the ability to stimulate and encourage a commitment to learning in others, as well as expertise in the part of the curriculum to be taught and the scholarship associated with it. Furthermore, you will have some experience of delivering teaching and/or training to actors, be a collaborative team player and contribute to innovation in the field of actor movement training.

LAMDA’s Movement department is constantly looking for working beyond best practice, encouraging its team to contribute to our collective research in pedagogy of movement for actors, ensemble, inclusive practice, anti-racist practice, ecology, intimacy, fight and future technologies. We are interested in employing practitioners whose research aims and values align with ours.

In this fractional 0.8 FTE role, you will work 29.5 hours per week, Monday to Saturday (9.15 am – 5.30 pm), plus evening and weekend work as and when necessary.

Application Process

For a full job description, please visit: https://www.lamda.ac.uk/about-us/work-us.

We want you to have the opportunity to really tell us about yourself and explain to us why this opportunity is right for you. All applications will be judged on content, not on format.

To apply, please provide:

• A covering letter to tell us a little about yourself and why this position interests you
• Tell us what experience, knowledge and skills you have that meet the person specification outlined in the job description; include any practical examples that you may have
• A CV
• A completed equality and diversity monitoring form

To be considered for this role, please send the above information by e-mail to the HR Department at recruitment@lamda.ac.uk.

Closing date: 5.00 pm on Sunday 9 June 2024

Interview date: w/c 17 June 2024

Equality, diversity and inclusion are essential values at LAMDA, and we are committed to promoting equality of opportunity for all staff and job applicants. We aim to have a diverse and inclusive workforce and value the benefits that a diverse workforce can bring to the Academy. We welcome applications from the Global majority, those with disabilities and from other under-represented groups. We are happy to provide recruitment information in accessible formats and a provision to accept applications in alternative formats.

As a Disability Confident Committed Employer, we are committed to ensuring that disabled people and those with long-term health conditions have the opportunities to fulfil their potential and realise their aspirations.

LAMDA is committed to safeguarding and protecting the children and adults who use our services and expects all employees and contractors to share this commitment. All LAMDA posts are subject to a safer recruitment process, including background checks and the disclosure of criminal records where applicable. We ensure that we have a range of policies and procedures in place which promote safeguarding and safer working practices across all of our activities and services.

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