Niamh has over five years of experience as a dance teacher and facilitator, having helped people as young as two years old up to seventy two years old to connect with their bodies.

Niamh has taught on behalf of several established institutions to deliver high quality, enjoyable, and nurturing dance and movement experiences.

  • Part of the NYDC Schools Workshops team for several years, leading contemporary and creative dance workshops in secondary schools up and down the country. Sharing material and methodology of NYDC Guest Artistic Directors, such as Wayne McGregor, Alessandra Seutin, Oona Doherty and Boy Blue.

  • Freelance Artist working for Sadlers Wells Learning and Participation department. Leader and assistant on the Associate Schools, delivering after school street dance foundation sessions at secondary schools across London, as well as choreographing for internal showcase. Assistant on Family Freestyle programme: monthly dance classes for toddlers and their parents.

  • Leader on Dance East Centre for Advanced Training Outreach programme, teaching contemporary and creative sessions in secondary schools around Suffolk, both one-off and in 4 weekly blocks. Facilitator for ‘FaST’ classes in Cambridge, aimed at boosting the skills of young dancers in order to prepare them for the CAT programme. Taught contemporary, creative and hip hop technique.

She is also part of the wider freelancer team at The Place and Trinity Laban.

Niamh is also an experienced freelancer, able to adapt and deliver sessions across a range of movement disciplines, ages, abilities and settings.

  • Facilitator for over 60s contemporary dance class at DanceEast, Ipswich, as well as on behalf of Simona Scotto (Counterpoint)

  • Teaching assistant and support for Stacked Wonky Half Term Academy. Supporting the team in creative sessions for children aged 6-18 in Porlock, Somerset. In a variety of disciplines: photography, lighting design, costume for performance, and parkour

  • Guest lecturer for Stella Mann College, Bedford: contemporary technique for vocational training college 18+

  • After school dance sessions facilitator for primary school children with Trufitt Collective, Dance Focus LTD, and Wee Movers

  • Facilitator for Creative Access Kids: baby ballet for ages 4-6, creative and contemporary for ages 7-9, 10-11, and 12-15

Recently, she has been expanding into guiding movement sessions in club environments. Pulling from her years of teaching experience, her practice of contemporary dance, improvisation, house, and hiphop, and her love for sound system music, she leads with attentiveness and care. In offering up accessible information, knowledge and skills in relation to our bodies and the music, she aims to contribute to a regenerative dance floor culture - all whilst having a lot of fun, and getting sweaty. She imagines regeneration as the possibility that people can go to their next dance floor with an idea to explore, something they’ve learnt, or just extra confidence to move their body to music more freely and authentically - as independent explorers of what dance can mean to them. She has previously taught at Ormside Projects for dance:music sessions, and Last Arch for Club Soft.

The next Club Soft event she will be teaching at is an all-ages party at Gaffe, on 5th July. Tickets are available on Resident Advisor.