Our Team

  • Alessandra Ruggeri

    Alessandra Ruggeri is invested in working with movement. She was a gymnast before moving to London to dance. In the UK she collaborated for several years with the theatre company Clod Ensemble and performed in works by choreographers Frauke Requardt and David Rosenberg, Jasmin Vardimon and Maresa Von Stockert. Ale collaborated with independent choreographers in Austria, Norway, Switzerland and Ireland before coming back to London and working with Lizzi Kew-Ross. Ale teaches movement and Pilates classes and has been a regular guest lecturer at East 15 Acting School since 2018.

  • Alice Sara

    Alice Sara is a dance artist with a portfolio that spans performance, choreography, rehearsal direction and teaching. She has performed extensively in site-specific, dance theatre and film projects with Seven Sisters Group, Deborah Tiso, Tom Dale & co, Deborah Hay, Maresa Von Stockert, and most recently with Lizzi Kew Ross & Co. Her choreographic collaborations include 'Betweens & Aparts' with Clare Baker for Tate Exchange (2019), 'Going, Going, Gone' with Mel Clarke for Trinity Laban graduating students (2023) and she is currently 'Scratching Beneath the Surface' with Emma Teixidor and Claire Burrell, and co-authoring a chapter published in a forthcoming Routledge title.

  • David Waring

    David Waring is a dance artist, choreographer, performer, dance educator, mindfulness teacher and workshop facilitator, and retail assistant. He created and performed in his own guerrilla solo series: hustler, hustler #2, and hustler #4.5 between 2008 and 2013, in pub toilets, urban environments, theatres and festivals. He led a post graduate dance company (2002-2021) and has performed with Ricochet, Kate Brown, Extemporary Dance Theatre, Motionhouse, Walker Dance, The Featherstonehaughs, and his own group fishpool (co-directed with Gaynor Coward). This is David’s 4th project with Lizzi Kew Ross & Co.


  • Henry Montes

    Henry Montes is a freelance dance maker, performer and teacher.

    He has performed for many independent choreographers and companies in New York and Europe including Susanne Linke, Reinhild Hoffmann, Keely Garfield, Kirstie Simson, KJ Holmes, Gaby Agis, Charles Linehan, Rosemary Butcher, Joan Davis, Liz Roche and Jonathan Burrows. Henry performed with Siobhan Davies Dance from 1998- 2009 and has worked with Lizzi Kew Ross on Stations and Reading With Bach.

  • Lizzi Kew Ross

    Lizzi Kew Ross is a dancer, choreographer, and teacher, and the artistic director of LKR & Co, specialising in site-specific dance performances. Trained at Roehampton and London Contemporary Dance School, she is funded by Arts Council England on a project basis. She works as a freelance movement director for theatre and creates new works in outdoor and unusual spaces like libraries and galleries. Notable commissions include projects for Dance United, Selfridges, the William Morris exhibition, and performances at the Old Vic Tunnels. She teaches at Trinity Laban Conservatoire, and her work spans community outreach, theatre, and dance festivals.

  • Sonia Rafferty

    Sonia Rafferty is a freelance teacher, performer, choreographer, director, researcher and author, and is the Programme Leader for the BSc Dance Science at TrinityLaban Conservatoire of Music and Dance. She has performed extensively in a range of work from La Bouche (electric voice dance) to V-TOL (physical theatre) and more recently with Athina Vahla and several projects with Lizzi Kew-Ross. An active researcher in dance science and safe dance practice, she is co-founder of Safe in Dance International and co-author of “Safe Dance Practice: An Applied Dance Science Perspective”.

  • Suzie Holmes

    Suzie Holmes' design credits include works for: Rosemary Butcher, Maresa Von Stockert, Protein Dance, CandoCo Dance Company, Phoenix Dance Theatre, Ludus Dance, and Transitions Dance Company. Her work has been seen at the Victoria and Albert Museum, in A Flash of Light: The Dance Photography of Chris Nash.

    Suzie is Head of Costume and Lecturer at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance, where she teaches design, performance and contextual studies.