about

Kate Hilder

I bring a wealth of experience to my work, having taught and performed across Europe for the past twenty years. I love creating a space for learning, play, exploration and discovery. It’s in this environment of encouragement and non-judgement that we make profound connections with ourselves and others and reveal our innate capacity for joy and vitality.
I work with groups in public workshops and individuals in my private practice as well as students at universities, performance schools, festivals and online. For the past 7 years, since I moved to Ireland from the UK, I’ve been teaching dancers and musicians at the University of Limerick. I didn’t expect my career to unfold this way: I was a shy child who felt safest in her imaginative world: reading and making up stories and songs. But I also loved physical play and dance and had a deep longing to be visible. Back then my shyness was too big a hurdle to overcome and apart from the odd show for parents initiated by friends, I turned down opportunities to perform.

As a young woman living in San Francisco, I met Sten Rudstrøm who introduced me to Action Theater™, a form of movement-based theatre. This meeting changed the direction of my life. I learnt how to translate my inner world into imaginative physical and vocal expression – which was both creatively satisfying and personally transformative. In those early classes, it felt like the outer shell I’d created around myself had started to crack open and a more honest, vulnerable, expressive me was finally finding its way through. The classes I took with Sten and Ruth Zaporah, who pioneered this work, culminated in Ruth’s Action Theater teacher training. This work forms the foundation of my Expressive Body teaching and I’m deeply grateful for the opportunity to share it with others. My teaching is also influenced by my training in dance improvisation, Roy Hart Theatre voice work and my meditation and Focusing (Gendlin) practice. Listening to my ‘felt sense’ in a Focusing way has contributed another piece to the puzzle of my inner and outer experience and the interaction between the two.

Later still, when I discovered the Feldenkrais Method, I immediately fell in love with the combination of movement and attending to my sensory experience. My curiosity was ignited about many different disciplines including anatomy, biomechanics, neurology and psychology. I completed the practitioner training in 2012 and have had a private practice since then.

Today, as well as teaching Feldenkrais and the Expressive Body separately, I love to weave them together to offer a unique path to embodied listening and playful, creative self-expression.

about

Kate Hilder

I bring a wealth of experience to my work, having taught and performed across Europe for the past twenty years. I love creating a space for learning, play, exploration and discovery. It’s in this environment of encouragement and non-judgement that we make profound connections with ourselves and others and reveal our innate capacity for joy and vitality.
I work with groups in public workshops and individuals in my private practice as well as students at universities, performance schools, festivals and online. For the past 7 years, since I moved to Ireland from the UK, I’ve been teaching dancers and musicians at the University of Limerick. I didn’t expect my career to unfold this way: I was a shy child who felt safest in her imaginative world: reading and making up stories and songs. But I also loved physical play and dance and had a deep longing to be visible. Back then my shyness was too big a hurdle to overcome and apart from the odd show for parents initiated by friends, I turned down opportunities to perform.

As a young woman living in San Francisco, I met Sten Rudstrøm who introduced me to Action Theater™, a form of movement-based theatre. This meeting changed the direction of my life. I learnt how to translate my inner world into imaginative physical and vocal expression – which was both creatively satisfying and personally transformative. In those early classes, it felt like the outer shell I’d created around myself had started to crack open and a more honest, vulnerable, expressive me was finally finding its way through. The classes I took with Sten and Ruth Zaporah, who pioneered this work, culminated in Ruth’s Action Theater teacher training. This work forms the foundation of my Expressive Body teaching and I’m deeply grateful for the opportunity to share it with others. My teaching is also influenced by my training in dance improvisation, Roy Hart Theatre voice work and my meditation and Focusing (Gendlin) practice. Listening to my ‘felt sense’ in a Focusing way has contributed another piece to the puzzle of my inner and outer experience and the interaction between the two.

Later still, when I discovered the Feldenkrais Method, I immediately fell in love with the combination of movement and attending to my sensory experience. My curiosity was ignited about many different disciplines including anatomy, biomechanics, neurology and psychology. I completed the practitioner training in 2012 and have had a private practice since then.

Today, as well as teaching Feldenkrais and the Expressive Body separately, I love to weave them together to offer a unique path to embodied listening and playful, creative self-expression.