Professional Training: Antonia Grove (she/her)

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My teaching practice is informed by my experience of working across various choreographic styles and methodologies, both through the development of my own work and as a performer for others. As a teacher I aim to place both the artistry and well-being of participants at the forefront of the class, supporting individuals to practice mindful risk-taking and boundaried freedom. My class will include opening the body through breathing and stretching, movement exercises that build strength and stability and dancing that covers space and invites expression, flow and expansiveness.

About Antonia 

I am a choreographer, writer, filmmaker, facilitator, lecturer and award-winning performer with over two decades experience leading Contemporary Dance and cross-artform collaborations. As Artistic Director of Probe (2004-2018), I reshaped the industry with ‘boundary-blurring’ (The Times) multidisciplinary & experimental productions, devising and performing work commissioned by internationally celebrated choreographers, directors, writers and cross artform collaborators. 

As a performer I have worked in prestigious companies including Rambert Dance Company, Company Wayne Mcgregor, Teac Damsa, Clod Ensemble and Vincent Dance Theatre. Performing physically & technically demanding contemporary dance repertoire (Merce Cunningham, Mats Ek, Christopher Bruce, Jiri Kylian etc), alongside cross artform dance and theatre work (Lea Anderson, Wendy Houstoun, New Art Club etc). 

I was a winner of the first Place Prize by Rafael Bonachela, have been nominated 3 times for the Critics Circle National Dance Awards- best female dancer (modern)- and a Time Out Live Award. Awards for Probe include Guglielmo Ebreo Award & London Theatre Award nomination. I now lead projects under my own name.

Emma was the inaugural recipient of the RAPPORT international artist residency through Dance Makers Collective and South East Dance in 2022, travelling to Brighton with sound designer Amy Flannery (Wiradjuri) to develop 'Wolverine'. She is a 2025 ATLAS scholar, supported with a five-week residency and workshop programme at Impulstanz Vienna, mentored by Christopher Matthews.

Testimonials 

“Toni gave me permission to arrive as I was and dive into the creative process as it emerged. This felt fresh and enlivening… there was a sense of a gentle disruption and an invitation, rather than a confrontation, which felt very generative and created surprising results.” Rachel

“The workshop gave me opportunity to play, discover and enter a quiet exploratory state, with opportunity to draw and work with the feelings and sensations that were discovered and uncovered. Toni's teaching was very generous, and I felt that she held the space in such a way that i felt a sense of liberation.” Mim 

“Toni is a stimulating and empathetic leader who gives confidence, effortlessly responding to what you bring. Her carefully structured and stimulating tasks, coupled with her empathetic approach and thoughtful reflections, made for one of the best set of classes I've been in. I feel I have grown in creative confidence and insight, and have left smiling, feeling warmed and inspired.” Lisa

“I thoroughly enjoyed Antonia’s creative dance workshops. Her experience and delight in sharing her coherently planned, well researched material generated wonderful creative responses and food for thought. Toni was mindful of different levels of experience and abilities, and was always positive, encouraging and totally inclusive.” Liz