Helen Kindred is a dance artist-scholar and choreographer, co-Artistic Director of DancingStrong Movement Lab, senior dance faculty member at Middlesex University London. Helen has toured internationally as a performer, taught within and beyond formal education and presented choreographic work at venues, festivals and conferences over the past twenty five years. Most recently her work has been presented as part of the InsideOut Festival, London (2015), 4th International Festival of Theatre and Dance, Wałbryzch, Poland (2016), estancias coreograficas symposium, Oviedo, Spain (2017), Light Moves Festival of ScreenDance, Limerick, Ireland (2018), Inshadow Festival of ScreenDance, Lisbon, Portugal (2018), and Seya Festival of ScreenDance, Tehran, Iran (2019), The Place, London (2020) and Global Water Dances (2021). Publications include ‘In-the-Between-ness: Decolonising and re-inhabiting our dancing’, co-authored chapter with Dr Adesola Akinleye in Narratives in Black British Dance Embodied Perspectives (Akinleye, A. (ed. 2018), ‘KnowingUnknowing’ co-authored DVD and text with Benjamin Dwyer and Pete Gomes, published by Farpoint Recordings (2019), ‘Improvisation and Change’ article in Animated (Summer 2020). Helen has co-curated three somatic-focused international symposia and been Guest Editor of Journal of Dance and Somatic Practices special issue ‘Wright-ing the Somatic: Narrating the Bodily’ (Summer 2019) with Adesola Akinleye. DancingStrong Movement Lab hosted a Global Water Dances project in London in parternship with IRIE! dance theatre (June 2021). Helen is currenttly completing her doctoral studies looking at new approaches to working with the movement system of Bartenieff Fundamentals as an artistic practice and is in research phase of a new collaborative work with Adesola Akinleye, ‘Concrete-Water-Flesh’. http://www.concretewaterflesh.com / https://dancingstrong.com / http://www.helen-kindred.com