Clare West
Clare West has had an extensive international career spanning the performing arts, well being and business: professional dancer, choreographer, opera director, managing director, practitioner, author and public speaker. Managing Director EMEA for cutting edge well being company Six Senses Spas – creator and Holistic Advisor to Six Senses rue de Castiglione, Paris.
She is former resident choreographer and director English National Opera and freelance choreographer and opera director: Lyric Opera of Chicago, Los Angeles Opera, Seattle and San Francisco Operas, Netherlands Opera, Wiesbaden, Kiel Operas, Royal Opera Covent Garden, BBC Proms, Paris Opera Bastille.
As a published writer Clare's book “The Energy Source” (Prion Books, London) provides simple daily exercise for mind & body vitality, and her own remedial techniques created in response to long-term injuries sustained through the rigours of professional dance and developed in productions and rehearsals at English National Opera, Royal Opera Covent Garden and Paris Opera Bastille.
Teaching specialty based on the principals of Chi Kung (‘Energy Work’) and on own movement theory published in “The Energy Source” - energy, breath, visualizations and intention and how they work in the body to greatest effect in performance and in the healing process.