Andrea Maciel is a Brazilian performer, teacher, academic and director. Her academic/artistic work investigates the physical resonance of space in urban landscapes through dance, performance and installations. She is Associate Lecturer for the BA (Hons) in Contemporary Theatre at the University of Arts of London – UAL and has taught movement techniques for BA and Master Course actors at Universities in Brazil, New York – US and UK. She has an extensive experience in Laban Bartenieff technique and has been teaching somatic approaches within CPD as well as utilizing those techniques in her clinic therapy practice. She holds a PhD in Performing Arts at Federal University – Brazil with a Visiting Scholarship at New York University and has 20 years of practice of physicaltheatre training and somatic-healing approaches for dancers, actors and bodywork practitioners.Andrea is a core member of Cross-Pollination Platform of Theatre where she is a co-creator in collaborative embodied research practice and is the Artistic Director for Intercultural Roots. Her passion to connect art, healing and public space performance has perfectly coalesced through initiatives like the ‘Intercultural Roots Arts for Health and Social Change’ program and the  Health & WELLth Festival.

Specialism: Breath/Energy Work, Contemporary Dance, Creative Labs, Dance, Forum Theatre, Laban/Bartenieff, Nia, Practitioner Lab, Theatre