Philip Beaven MA (website) studied eurythmy with the late Marguerite Lundgren in London. He co-founded Ashdown Eurythmy in 1980 which became the world's first paid, full-time touring eurythmy company. In 1991 he co-founded and directed English Eurythmy Theatre (which later became Moving Word Theatre) to explore, in performance, how eurythmy can co-create with theatre and dance. Their productions toured all over Europe and the US. This opened up his interest for other performance forms which he has explored through workshops, as well as studying Directing in Collaborative Theatre at the Central School of Speech and Drama, London. He has most recently directed two outdoor site specific events on a farm in Sussex as well as student productions at Emerson College and at the Academy of Living Movement, Vienna. As well as performing and directing (devising, eurythmy, theatre, storytelling, puppetry) he teaches movement improvisation, neutral mask, theatre/performance skills, devising, eurythmy and living movement. (Comments by students!)
Sarah Kane graduated in Creative Speech at the London School of Speech and then studied Michael Chekhov's approach to acting over a number of years with many of his students, including Deirdre Hurst du Prey, Mala Powers, Jack Colvin and Joanna Merlin. She has taught one-year training programmes in Michael Chekhov's technique in London and in Washington D.C., and directed and coached actors for several years at the Stanislavsky Theater Studio, an American repertory theatre. She now works freelance, directing and teaching this approach to both professional and student actors in the USA and Europe, including Michael Tschechow Studio, Berlin, and Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts, London, out of an awareness that this acting technique, in tandem with Rudolf Steiner's speech techniques for the stage, has the potential to free the actor's creative spirit, and inspire any performance. Sarah is co-founder of the Michael Chekhov Centre UK , a board member of MICHA, the Michael Chekhov Association, Inc., New York, and of the International Stanislavsky Theater Studio, Washington D.C..