Susan Kempster

Susan Kempster is an award-winning choreographer, teacher and performer.

From Australia, her career has taken her to Japan, the USA, and Spain where she spent two decades. Since living in the UK, she has completed an MA and become a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy while continuing her practice as an independent dance artist. Her teaching work includes contemporary dance and somatic practices for vocational training institutions and professional dance company classes, along with workshops in improvisation, composition and choreography. She is also a movement coach for actors and musicians. Her current research is centred around a practice of contemporary dance partnering called “threading” as a vehicle for creation and improvisation.

Susan leads the MA Choreography at Central and teaches improvisation in Year One of the Foundation Degree.