Her Background

Kerry’s formal training in dance includes a B.A. in Dance and a Postgraduate degree from The Laban Centre for which she attained a distinction in Movement Analysis.

She won the Lisa Ullman Travelling Scholarship in 1987 to research Latin movement and dance throughout Brazil and thus began her passion researching how the Latin body moves from the ‘Core’. After 12 months in Brazil she returned to the UK and taught dance at G.C.S.E foundation, BTEC levels at Brunel University. Kerry also opened the first Latin club in the UK, ‘Club Brazil’, introducing Cuban Salsa, Brazilian Capoeira and Lambada onto the London scene.

Training

Her fascination with movement led her to undertake an in-depth seven year study of Body-Mind Centering™ and Physical Integration with the renowned Patricia Bardi and Lenora Grubinger in Italy. This study included the systems of the body i.e. the organs, fluids, glands, nervous system, skeleton, muscles, and developmental movement which consolidated her deep understanding of the human body in movement. Noticing how Body Mind Centering techniques brought her clients more effectively into their full movement potential she decided to train as a Hellerwork practitioner.

Hellerwork is a powerful educational process that incorporates deep tissue bodywork, movement education and verbal dialogue to align and balance the body’s structure and posture. Her two year course in Structural Integration included a nine week full-time intensive programme in New Zealand, and an advanced training in ‘Trauma’. At the International Hellerwork conference in San Francisco, 2003, she was invited to teach alongside Joseph Heller and Dan Bienenfeld as a specialist in the movement of the pelvis.

Coaching

Her 121 coaching work includes teaching Movement, Dance, Hellerwork and Body Language to leaders of Corporations, professional performers and the public. Kerry’s unique expertise is superbly profiled in her video ‘Salsa from Within’ which details in a step by step process how to dance Salsa ‘Cuban Style’. Her private clients have included; Kylie Minogue, Rula Lenska, Frank Skinner and Bill Wrigley CEO of the Wrigley Company.

TV, Film and Publications

Her work has been featured in many publications: The Observer, The Evening Standard, The Times, The Telegraph, Time Out, Bella and ‘Animated’ publications. She has also danced alongside Madonna in ‘Evita’ and has taught Cuban Dance in a six-part documentary ‘The Confidence Lab’ for BBC2, screened in September 2000. Kerry has also featured as the Movement coach in a documentary on well being for ITV called ‘The 18- 30 Stone Club’.

In 2003 she won the title of the Top UK Salsa teacher, at the British Salsa congress.

Her Current Work

A unique brand of dance programmes held throughout the year at various locations across the UK, Europe, and Cuba.

Body-Mind leader for Breakthrough International, led by Doctor Bart Sayle, a leading corporate motivational training organisation in the UK and the USA. Clients include; Satchi and Satchi, P&G, Wrigleys, Yahoo, Ross Foods Interbrand, Allied Domecq and Masterfoods.

Motivational work with Corporations improving corporate health, well-being, body language, vocal and physical communication. Clients include Lever Brothers, Virgin, Gooseberry dating agency, Walls and Quest Int’l.

Hellerwork practitioner - private 1-2-1consultations; clinics in London and Hamburg.

Teaching Cuban dance at the U.K Pontins Salsa Festivals, The British and International Salsa congresses worldwide, including Norway and Paris.

Managing Director and Founder of Key2Cuba Ltd, a specialist Cuban Dance holiday company since 2002.

She recently raised $20,000 with the Key2Cuba team and Martha Gavron to renovate the dance theatre space in Havana for the internationally acclaimed Raices Profundo Dance Company.

What Inspires Her

For the past ten years Kerry has focussed on her primary loves; Cuban Dance, Hellerwork and facilitating corporate change. She has travelled to Cuba extensively analysing the body language and movement of the Cuban people - how they sit, stand, walk, embrace, gesture and communicate, and how they move fluidly from the core of their bodies when they dance; which is the essence of Hellerwork.

She has analysed the movement make up of Cuban Salsa, Son, Rumba, and Afro-Cuban Dance and has specialised in how to translate this through dance teaching to a non-Latin mover. She has also been deeply inspired by Cuban music through her close relationship with Los Van Van, Cuba’s leading Salsa orchestra and Clave Gua Guanco (the leading Rumba Ensemble).

In all Kerry has led more than 40 Dance programmes in Cuba, teaching and studying alongside Cuba’s top teachers; including Juan de Dios - Director of Raices Profundo, Ildoylidia Ramos - principle dancer, and Borja Jimenz - Director of CNEART. Having gained six certificates studying at the Academy in Havana, and combining her Hellerwork and Body Mind Centering techniques, she is now able to open the door of Cuban dance to others with unique inspiring training which brings her clients to their full movement and dance potential.