After reading English at Cambridge University, Katie graduated from London Contemporary Dance School in 2006 and formed Made By Katie Green in the same year. Her work since then has been diverse, including touring work to theatres, creating large-scale commissions for particular communities and specific sites, and delivering participation projects for children and young people.

Since 2013, Katie has focused her practice on working with dance in museums, heritage sites and other extraordinary spaces. She has toured her 'dancing tour guides' piece to more than 80 museums across the UK through the Dancing in Museums project, her Dancing in Caves project to 6 caves and underground sites from 2017-18, and toured her promenade work for libraries, The Story Detectives to 19 libraries across the SE and SW of England from 2022-23. She received a Developing Your Creative Practice grant in 2023 to research her new project 'A Gathering Place', responding choreographically to archaeology and the archaeological process.

Katie often works in partnership with other organisations to deliver multi-faceted projects responding to particular sites, collections and historical stories. She has created new work with young people for the British Museum, Ipswich Museum, worked on the Surrey Arts commemoration of the 800th anniversary of the sealing of the Magna Carta, created a promenade work for the bicentenary of Dulwich Picture Gallery with curator Helen Hillyard in 2017 and a solo work for Bastian London in response to their exhibition of sculpture by Dan Flavin (2019-2020). Her Imagination Museum: Mayflower 400 project toured to heritage sites, schools and community centres in Lincolnshire, North Nottinghamshire, Hampshire, Dorset and Plymouth between 2018 and 2021, commemorating the 400th anniversary of the sailing of the Mayflower from Plymouth to America in 1620.

As well as directing Made By Katie Green, Katie manages the developing Imagination Museum dance/heritage network and works as a freelance choreographer and teacher/mentor, most recently working with the University of Winchester to create choreography for the third year dance students responding to Winchester City Museum (2022). From 2011-2022 she was a Trustee and then the Chair of the St Hugh's Foundation for the Arts for 8 years. She performed with Cie. Willi Dorner (Austria) from 2011-14 and with UK-based collective Casson & Friends from 2013-15 as part of the Selling Secrets project. 

Vicky Thornton is a Producer and Executive Director with 22 years’ experience specialising in supporting dance artists to realise their creative ambitions through creating and touring productions, events and festivals, producing short films, programming screen-based festivals and outdoor events, large-scale and small scale community projects and specialising in creative entrepreneurship and business development of cultural organisations.

Vicky is Co-Director of Clearcut which is an cultural consultancy providing Executive Producing, Project Management, Evaluation, Fundraising, Artist Development and Business Development support for companies including Made by Katie Green, We are UNIT, Company Wayne MacGregor, One Dance UK, DanceMama, Trinity Laban, Three Score Dance, DanceHub, Divya Kasturi, Stuart Waters, Marlborough Theatre and ThreeScoreDance

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Alongside Clearcut, Vicky is Executive Director of ZoieLogic Dance Theatre and was previously Programme Producer, Head of Screen Dance and Acting CEO at South East Dance and a Visiting Lecturer at University of Winchester teaching Creative Entrepreneurship and is a Founder/Trustee of The Ellie Thornton Foundation.

Charlotte Mackie is a freelance Arts Manager and Producer working predominantly in dance.

Alongside working with Made by Katie Green, she is currently also working with Stopgap Dance Company; Portsmouth Cultural Education Partnership; UK Dance Network and Ensonglopedia. She worked with Made by Katie Green as Local Producer for ‘The Imagination Museum’ in 2019-2021 and is thrilled to be working with the company again as a Project Manager.

Other recent freelance work includes Project Manager for Dance Hub Birmingham’s investment programme and Programme Coordinator for Photoworks and Aspex Portsmouth on an 18 month project called In Focus.

She was previously full-time Producer for Nuffield Southampton Theatres working on all of their in-house shows, including 'Billionaire Boy the Musical' which won 'Best Show for Children and Young People' at the UK Theatre Awards 2019.

Prior to that she was Stopgap Dance Company's Producer for Outdoor and Community Productions where she worked on national and international tours of outdoor works, including 'Bill & Bobby' and 'The Awakening', and productions that brought together community groups with professional dancers, including 'Moon Language' with the Lights, Andover and 'The Seafarers' with Norfolk & Norwich Festival.

Anna Selby is a poet and naturalist.

Her poetry often explores our connection with water and the natural world. She works collaboratively with dancers, choreographers and conservationists, writes poetic-studies of different species in the field, directly from life, often underwater, and aims for these poems to share a sense of compassion and attentiveness to the environment.

Field Notes, her new collection, is published by Hazel Press

She is currently doing a PhD at Manchester Metropolitan University on Empathy and Plein Air Poetry, and is inspired by Deep Ecology, Animism and Gaia Theory; Rachel Carson; the Transcendentalists, and painters such as Emily Carr and Casper David Friedrich.

Photograph by Katie Musgrave

Max Perryment is a multi-disciplinary neo-classical and popular music Composer and Sound Designer. He writes music and designs sound for TV, theatre, dance and commercials.

His music and sound for theatre has been heard at prestigious London theatres such as the Young Vic, The Globe, The Royal Court, Hampstead Theatre, Almeida Theatre and many other regional venues.

He has written music for feature length documentaries found on Amazon Prime, Apple TV and other platforms such as Vice, and hundreds of TV commercials and brand videos over an 11 year career.

Max is resident composer for the contemporary dance company Made By Katie Green and is a founding member of the physical theatre company Parrot {in the} Tank. He writes original scores for the comedy duo Goodbear. He has been working with Kestral Theatre Company for three years, making theatre with prisoners that has seen productions at the Royal Court Theatre.

He is a founding member of the band Escapists who have played Reading and Leeds Festival as well as supporting Manic Street Preachers and Imagine Dragons on their U.K. tours.

Katie is a performer, teacher and maker based in Birmingham. She has had the pleasure of performing with companies such as Springs Dance Company, Sonia Sabri, Highly Sprung, Autin Dance Theatre, and recently as a Featured Dancer in the Commonwealth Games Opening Ceremony choreographed by Corey Baker.

Katie also enjoys rehearsal directing and was Movement Associate for The Ballad of Maria Marten, a play by Beth Flintoff. Katie teaches and facilitates dance in a range of settings and is passionate about dance being for everyone. She is an Associate Artist for integrated dance company FRONTLINEdance and is an Artist in Residence at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital with Eek & Wild, a company she co-founded.

Katie is thrilled to be joining the Story Detectives team!

Aimee is a dance artist, choreographer and teacher based in Surrey. She has performed with Protein Dance and toured a 'A Change of Seasons' with choreographer/movement director Anna Morrissey and more recently performed in Rigoletto at the Royal Opera House where she had the joy of being Dance Captain and Assistant to the Movement Director. She also performed in Rigoletto and Turandot with The Royal Opera House on their Japan Tour 2024 and in 2025.

Aimee is also an accomplished teacher and practitioner leading Delight in Dance workshops for Made By Katie Green. She teaches many classes around Surrey and London, including contemporary technique for BTEC dancers. Aimee is passionate about growing self confidence in her students and making dance accessible to everyone.

Aimee is extremely blessed to be a part of the Made By Katie Green team!

Megan trained at London Contemporary Dance School and since graduating has worked as a performer, teacher and rehearsal director both nationally and internationally.

During her performance career she has worked for choreographers James Cousins, Amir Hosseinpour, Jonathan Lunn, Scarlett Mackmin, Moxie Brawl, Peut Etre, Ffin Dance, Kate Flatt and regularly works with the company Made by Katie Green.

Megan has worked as Dance Captain and Associate Choreographer For Welsh National Opera and worked in Geneva and Poland restaging the production of William Tell. She has also danced in operas staged at The Royal Opera House.

Megan teaches at The Place for their Saturday and evening school, for Essential Alston and is currently a guest lecturer at London Contemporary Dance School. She has also taught for the CAT programmes at The Place and Dance East, for James Cousins Company, London Studio Centre and Central Ballet Associates.

Becky (she/her) is a UK based dancer and multidisciplinary artist. She works as a performer, maker, researcher & facilitator and holds an MA in Dance Performance from Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music & Dance. 

She is invested in collaborative processes and specialises in improvisation, contact & site-specific performance, working regularly outside & in galleries.Becky has worked as a performer/practitioner for a wide range of artists and companies such as Dora Frankel Ensemble, Kinship Workshop, Marina Collard, Leap Then Look & Bicycle Ballet.Her own work is increasingly multimedia and influenced by her interests in sustainability, the sensory, materiality and play. She is interested in the embodied ways in which people engage with art. 

And as a facilitator, has delivered cross-discipline workshops at venues including The Royal Academy, Orleans House Gallery, Royal Museums Greenwich PPMCC, Towner Gallery & Brixton House.

Rachel is a freelance dance artist from Scotland and trained at Copenhagen Contemporary Dance School for her Postgraduate, Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance for her BA (HONS) degree and prior to this at The Scottish School of Contemporary Dance and National Youth Dance Company of Scotland.

Since being freelance Rachel has performed for Highly Sprung, English National Opera, Garsington Opera, Peut-Etre Theatre, Levantes Dance Theatre, Next Door Dance, Tess Letham, The Natashas Project and Page One theatre among others. Commercially she has been in music videos for Dua Lipa, Hilang Child, Private Agenda and Mary Middlefield. In 2024 she co-movement directed the play 'After Sex' at the Arcola Theatre and she frequently collaborates with artists Latifah A Stranack. In 2019 she co-founded Dance theatre company Sliding Doors Collective.

As a teacher Rachel has taught throughout Scotland, England, Copenhagen and China as a teacher independently as well as representing performance companies as a contemporary dance teacher and yoga/fitness instructor. Recently she underwent Associate Artist training for Highly Sprung and is a facilitator for Peut-Etre Theater.

Chloe Mead is a freelance dance artist based in London. She has worked with a number of companies and choreographers including The Royal Opera House, Richard Alston, Kate Flatt, Ceyda Tanc, Tim Casson, Katie Green and Second Hand Dance. She particularly enjoys physical theatre or site specific dance, bringing dance into spaces where you might not expect to see it. She believes art and dance should be for everyone to enjoy and have the opportunities to be involved.

Alongside her performance work she teaches children, teenagers and adults for English National Ballet, The Royal Opera House and Made by Katie Green. She also designs and makes costumes for performances. She is very excited to be working with Katie Green on the Delight in Dance project.

Nicky graduated many moons ago from the University of Birmingham in Drama and Theatre Arts and has been lucky enough to use all that she learnt there on a daily basis in her world of work. She set her stall out early on to be a dance and drama teacher, and along the way has also had the pleasure of performing in theatres, community spaces, the great outdoors and most notably the 2012 Paralympics Opening Ceremony.

Nicky currently works predominantly with inclusive dance groups and is a fully trained IRIS dance teacher for Stopgap Dance Company, leading 4 of their youth companies, as well as delivering the bespoke training section of IRIS called Respond. She delivers elements of their teacher training course - SEEDBED - as well as other CPD and outreach projects. She is also the lead dance artist for Freewheelers Theatre Company and has been the choreographer for large scale site specific events such as 'Wonderdusk' and 'Carnival of Kindness'.

Her passion for community dance began to flourish under the inspiring mentorship of Rachel Deadman and The Dance Movement, a partnership that flourished and enabled her to practice her artform with freedom and joy. Nicky believes that nurturing a love of dance and the arts from a young age should be accessible and available to all. Hence she is immensely grateful to be able to work on the Delight in Dance project with Made By Katie Green.

Photo by Chris Parkes.

Alice is a dance artist, physical theatre performer, and clown. She has worked with companies and artists: Stopgap, Second Hand Dance, Casson & Friends, Spiltmilk, Highly Sprung, Barnaby Booth, Chhaya Collective, Dirtmarket, Hawk Dance Theatre and The Knotted Project.

In 2017, Alice won the Nottingham Young Creative Awards in dance. Alice thoroughly enjoys amalgamating theatre, dance and comedy, and constantly seeks new ways of exploring these forms.

Alice has been an associate lecturer in dance for the University of Chichester. She has also lectured and taught at De Montfort University, London South Bank University and Kingston University, London. Alice aims to always evolve her way of cultivating and celebrating individuality whilst teaching and creating.

Alice has collaborated with Made By Katie Green on The Imagination Museum, The Imagination Museum: Mayflower 400 and A Gathering Place.

Deepraj Singh first started dancing in after school capoeira sessions at the age of 8. From there his interest in movement and musicality began to grow. He joined Bristol based youth dance company Kinesis and continued his movement exploration at Cotham School where dance was taught as part of the curriculum. Deepraj continued training via the CAT (Centre of Advanced Training) programme run in Swindon, and was on both the urban strand and contemporary strand before successfully auditioning for London Contemporary Dance School. Deepraj was awarded a scholarship whilst training at London Contemporary Dance School and graduated with a first in July 2015. After graduating he has continued working as a freelance dancer and has toured professional pieces internationally, as well as worked within large scale community settings at the National Theatre. Deepraj draws upon his street dance techniques when creating pieces, which are rhythmically explorative and emotionally driven. The use of improvisation is prominent within his work, representing the authenticity of human experience. He makes pieces that are accessible emotionally and that are available to a wide variety of audiences.

Amarnah Ufuoma Cleopatra Osajivbe-Amuludun has many names, disciplines and expressions. London born with roots in Nigeria, the multi-disciplinary artist has been working with her body since the age of 5 and started her professional training as a Contemporary dancer at London Contemporary Dance School in 2010. Graduating with a first class degree, she then went onto the Post-graduate company at Northern School of Contemporary Dance, Verve. Amarnah has worked across Dance, Theatre forms and with Music Artists, on stages, for T.V, Short Films, Music Videos and Gallery spaces worldwide. Collaborators and appearances include Anton Lachky, Renaud Wiser, Barrowland Ballet, Sampa the Great, 2nd Hand Dance, Made by Katie Green, Anatomical, Breach Theatre Company, Dorothy Allen-Pickard, Marriott Hotels, Live on Jools Holland, Sainsbury’s and The Guardian.

Matthew is a professional dance artist, movement practitioner and Franklin Method educator. He has a passion for studying movement and the body, and this passion has driven him to continually deepen his practice over the course of 20 years working in the dance sector. His training began at Laban, where he completed his degree with first class honours. He then spent a year at London Contemporary Dance School as a member of EDge, the postgraduate performance company. 

After graduating, Matthew went on to work with Matthew Bourne’s New Adventures, Bare Bones dance company, and choreographer Ben Wright. He has also worked with Liam Steele and Robert Tannion's company Stan Won’t Dance, performed in operas at home and abroad, taught classes and workshops in China, and completed his MA at London Contemporary Dance School. He began working with Luca Silvistrini’s Protein dance in 2012, notably performing in (In)visible Dancing, May Contain Food and En Route. In recent years he has collaborated extensively with Casson & Friends, and this spring will be working on developing the company's latest production. 

His desire to further his knowledge of the body and improve his movement led him to the Franklin Method, and in 2024 he completed his training to become a certified level 2 Franklin Method educator.