About Flow & Radiate
We are a team of creatives with experience in Movement Direction & Choreography; Circus & Physical Theatre Direction; Meditation & Coaching. We treasured the learnings from our struggles and successes as performers, and we are here now to offer tailored support from the wisdom gathered through years of work in the performing and wellbeing industry. With our combined experience and specialised skill set, we can midwife your artistic creations into being as well as teaching you tools to navigate the changing waters of the creative flow.
Everything we teach comes from our lived experience and professional training. Our services are bespoke to your specific needs and rooted in Checkov, Laban, and Lecoq technique, Embodiment Coaching and Meditation, Contemporary Dance and Somatic practices.
Viola Bruni
Founder / Movement Coaching & Circus Director / Creation Coach
“Movement is our primary language, what we communicate with before speaking. We can easily forget this as adults, especially in cultures that elevate mind over body instead of viewing them as one whole. Becoming aware of what we communicate through movement is fundamental for any stage performer, and a great tool for anyone that yearns for a deeper understanding of the self and others.”
Trained in Movement Direction & Teaching (RCSSD, London), Directing Circus & Physical Theatre (Circomedia, Bristol), and Embodied Meditation, Viola loves helping performers and companies with movement and show creation, as well as coaching artists to support their creative expression. She leads 1:1 Creation Coaching sessions for artists as well as group workshops and classes.
Viola’s expertise and passion for movement spans across 20+ years of stage experience. Performing since 1997, she graduated from Accademia d’Arte Circense as an aerialist and dancer, working across Italy in many street circus festivals, touring with Circo Soluna, and later performing for Big Dance 2012 and Venice Biennale Eventi Collaterali. Her movement studies continued through the years attending regular classes and workshops of Contemporary Dance, Contact Improvisation, Dance Theatre, Physical Theatre, and Acting. She practiced for many years Yoga and Dao Yin Qi Gong and trained as an Embodied Meditation teacher with Embodiment Unlimited .
In 2012, she was injured while working as an acrobat for the London Olympic Festival/LIFT. Along with a severe physical exhaustion and chronic fatigue, this led to the impossibility of training and performing for many years. With the help of Equity Charitable Trust, Viola was able to move to a career as creative, offering her vast knowledge in service to the performing industry. Since 2016, she has worked as Movement Director and Choreographer in London and Bristol for theatre, film, circus, dance, music videos. She taught workshops and classes at Circomedia, Sadler’s Wells, Forgotten Circus School, UAL/Central St Martins, Scuola di Piccolo Circo, Courtyard Theatre Training Company, Stratford Circus and many others. She directed movement at Boomtown, Breakin Convention, Camden Fringe, Scoop Theatre, RCSSD, East 15. She created choreography for artist Megan Broadmeadow and music producer/dj Ehua (Nervous Horizon), as well as mentoring DYCP funded performers and working as outside eye and creation assistant for various circus productions.
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For more information on help available through Equity please visit:
https://www.bapam.org.uk https://www.equitycharitabletrust.org.uk
Valeria Chiara Puppo
Embodiment Coach / Circus & Physical Theatre Director / Choreographer
“It is the mind that belongs to the body, not the opposite. We can start from the body to obtain a transformation in our thoughts, our emotions, our relationships”
Valeria is a ICF accredited, trauma informed Embodiment Coach as well as a professional dancer and choreographer trained at Susanna Beltrami Professional dance program “DanceHaus”. With a BA in Educational Sciences, since 2011 she teaches dance, choreographic composition, and movement for theatre. She worked with Teatro Nazionale di Genova, Narramondo, Joujoux Folies, Ex-Otago band, art galleries and museums, creating different bespoke choreographies. She leads research seminars and workshops on movement, dance theatre, and character study across Italy. Years of training and a varied work experience, paired with a passion for movement science, make Valeria a formidable teacher and choreographer able to work with adults and children. Working as Embodiment Coach expanded Valeria’s knowledge of non performative movement and deepened her research interests. Valeria is also a Tarot researcher and reader, and created with Viola The Embodied Tarot, from where they offer workshops and retreats of movement and Tarot.
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Tessa Blackman & Think Emerald
Meditation Teacher and Clairvoyant
“The creative mind has so much to offer us and if we can learn to use it as a tool of exploration into the subconscious we can guide ourselves back to stillness, peace of mind and therefore gain a better relationship with our self.”
Tessa Blackman is an energy healer, meditation teacher and clairvoyant, previously an international circus performer. She describes herself as an empath and a sensitive being. Tessa has a BA(Hons) degree from the National Centre for Circus Arts and is the founder of Think Emerald, a female-run holistic company offering meditation courses, 1:1 sessions, events, talks and creative collaborations.
Alongside her work as performer, she has offered energy readings and healings for the past 10 years. With 5 certificates in Clairvoyance from InVision Psychic School, she uses her knowledge and practice to create the Think Emerald method of combining visualisation, freewriting, meditation and mantra setting. Tessa now incorporates the Think Emerald method into her creative collaborations with performing artists and companies.
Think Emerald and Flow & Radiate offer together a range of workshops and events where movement and meditation combine to support creativity and wellbeing.
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