Laura Harvey 
Name Laura Harvey
Birthplace
Birmingham, U.K
Training
BA Honours Degree Dance and Arts and Cultural Management
MA European Dance Theatre Practice, Laban
Laura graduated from Chester University with a BA Honours in Dance and Arts and Cultural Management and the following year completed an MA in European Dance Theatre Practice at the Laban Centre.
Laura joined Rambert Dance Company in 2005 as the Education Administrator and was project manager for Rambert from April 2006 -September 2008. She has worked as an animateur for Rambert Dance Company since 2006 delivering educational workshops across the country and teaching on their community class programme for young dancers. She runs the Rambert Youth Company, Quicksilver and has choreographed work on them for the opening of the Eurostar from St Pancras International, Big Dance and Leap into Dance at the Royal Ballet School. She has worked as a performance director for a project engaging 170 young dancers and musicians at Ripon Cathedral and most recently produced a site specific performance at the British Film Institute working with 150 young performers from Lambeth.
Laura currently works as the Touring Dance Officer (National and International) for English National Ballet delivering repertoire based workshops around the country. Alongside this role, Laura is undertaking a project entitled Swanning Around, acting as Artistic Director working with schools in the U.K to produce a performance at The Royal Albert Hall and teaching in China to produce a performance for Shanghai Expo 2010.
Working on a freelance basis for the past eight years, Laura has taught for companies such as Birmingham Royal Ballet, English National Ballet, George Piper Dances, Richard Alston Dance Company and Sadlers Wells Theatre. Laura continues to work nationwide as a choreographer, teacher and performer (Iratik Dance Theatre) and is continually developing her own dance in education company, HarveyCo Dance.
Photo: David Watson