Vanessa Grasse

Vanessa is a dance and multidisciplinary artist from Sicily, based in Leeds, UK. She is a choreographer, performer, teacher, mentor, coach and curator. She is a certified Life Coach and Somatic Stress Release™ practitioner, focusing on holistic well-being, body-mind integration, authenticity and creativity, to support people to develop greater self-awareness, emotional resilience, body-mid ease, confidence and creative thinking that aligns with their inner values and needs. She embeds these practices into her creative work as well as offering them as one to one sessions in addition to her teaching and mentoring work.
Her work is grounded in ecological and social questions, which she explores through somatic and improvisational movement approaches, site-responsiveness, social-engagement, ecology, and cross-disciplinarity.

Vanessa graduated from the MA Creative Practice-Dance Professional Pathway, at Trinity Laban in London. She regularly teaches release based contemporary dance, experiential anatomy, improvisation, Contact Improvisation, outdoors and site-based creative practices across Europe, for wider communities, professional dancers and universities including: Leeds Beckett University, Northern School of Contemporary Dance and Trinity Laban. Her teaching is grounded in inclusive practice and a curiosity about how the body transforms as a result of imagination, shifts of perception, attentional dynamics and relational engagement with others and the environment.