Chantal Guevara (Mexican / German)
Chantal finally started dancing in 1995, immediately before and after starting her studies at UCL’s Institute of Archaeology, having responded badly to ballet as a child. She has since trained at The Place's Evening School and JWAAD (Egyptian Dance) as well as in a wide range of other styles (including in Marseille, Dublin and Guatemala), while she worked as a belly dancer and a dancer on London's acoustic music circuit. Being rather accident-prone, and a workaholic, there have been extended periods of time when she has been unable to attend class - and indeed rehearsals. She now focusses on running Cloud Dance, Cloud Dance Festival and London Dance Network - when there are lulls at work.

Wan-Chen Chang

Wan-Chen was a member of Cloud Dance in 2007. Her obituary can be read here .

Wan-Chen started to dance at age of seven. She was a member of Lyn-Yong Dance Company for 5 years. During her time in the company, she performed nationally and toured to Italy, Spain and Germany.

Trained and graduated from Chinese Culture University in Taiwan, where she received her Bachelor of Fine Arts in Dance, she then continued her dance education in the California Institute of the Arts. In those two years in CalArts she was involved in many concerts, faculty works and also received assistantship to work as a technical assistant in The Sharon Disney Lund Dance Theatre.

After earning her Master of Fine Arts in Dance from CalArts in 2003, she moved to New York and joined Jessica Gaynor Dance Company where she performed at Triskelion Arts, Dance Space, Jennifer Muller/The Works HATCH series and The Kitchen. She also worked with choreographer Sean Curran and participated in the opera ‘Nixon in China’ at St. Louis Opera Theatre in Missouri.

Wan-Chen moved to London in January 2007, and has since worked with Cloud Dance, ktdt, Sylvia Ferreira Dance Company and KorsnesKompani.

Edyth (Eddie) Cormack

Eddie started dancing at an early age and has trained in various forms of dance, including jazz, ballet, tap and contemporary.

In 2002/2003, she took a year out from her studies to work as a professional dancer. She performed as a dancer in the "WoW" show in Eilat, Israel and then did a summer season in Crete, Greece with Premiere Productions as a dancer and singer. Prior to that, she performed in and choreographed for various dance and musical productions at the Bloomsbury Theatre, London, including the 2001 production of Sweet Charity.

After her adventures abroad, Eddie returned to England to qualify as a solicitor, however, she still continues to take regular jazz and contemporary classes alongside being involved in Cloud Dance.

Holly Warren (2008)

Holly graduated from London Contemporary Dance School in 2005, and has since built a career in teaching dance to children.

She is working as a freelance community dance artist and choreographer at the moment and has been working with small companies on independant projects for Kush dance company and present state dance. She will be starting her PGCE in Brighton in September 2009.

Holly left Cloud Dance following Spoke due to scheduling problems; we wish her all the best and hope to see her again soon.

Laryssa Edwards

Laryssa recently moved to the UK from Southern California where she double majored in Modern Dance and Advertising at Chapman University. She has been involved in many concerts and modern dance companies the past four years ... and has been dancing all in all for the past 14 years!

Claudia Palazzo

Claudia joined Cloud Dance in Summer 2007, after completing the Diploma course at Laban; she then went on to study Circus Skills at Circomedia in Bristol, but returned to London in Spring 2008, whereupon she immediately rejoined Cloud Dance.

Becca Goor

Becca has recently graduated from Laban, and is extensively involved with the marketing and publicity for Cloud Dance and Cloud Dance Festival.

Becca has an extensive knowledge of many contemporary techniques including Release based, Graham, Horton, Cunningham, Physical theatre, contact and improvisation, as well as experience within classical and Cecchetti Ballet. She has also attented workshops given by Henri Oguike Dance Company, Bonachela Dance Company, Random Dance Company and Jasmin Vardimon Dance Company. Last summer, she was awarded a scholarship to attend the Martha Graham School of Contemporary Dance, New York. She is interested in working creatively within task based work but also feels that she thrives on being given specific direction when needed.

Lina Petterson

Lina began her dance training in Sweden and continued her studies at Laban, London. After she finished, she remained London-based & has taken part in various projects, ranging from baroque dance and short film to installations.

Most recently Lina performed with ‘The Rare Theatrical’, an ensemble mixing opera, music, acting and dance, which gave her a special interest in collaborations with different forms of expression.

Anna Lamonica

Anna Lamonica grew up in Seattle, and started dancing when she was 7. She graduated from Chapman University in 2008 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in dance performance and a minor in Communications.  Throughout her 4 years at Chapman she had a lot of experience of performance, teaching and choreographing.

Since graduating, she has worked with Holly Johnston's Company in Los Angeles, and she was part of an experimental dance/theatre project through a Seattle Theater.

Anna relocated to London at the start of 2009 and is eager to start exploring the dance opportunities here. 

Past Dancers

A number of dancers have passed through Cloud Dance since its formation, including:

Kathryn O'Neill, Nina Brunner, Dana Kolesarova, Amandine Vighi, Olivia Vella, Emily Jameson, Laura Newman, Margarita Maniani, Yshani Perinpanayagam, Ciba Barnik, Helka Kaaski, Claudia Selfe, Caroline Milne, Isabelle Dambricourt, Anna Kamau-Woodyard, Justine McLucas, Melissa Belcher, Lottie Lyle, Jui-Wei Hung, Kate Eves, Wan-Chen Chang, Lauren Fowkes, Tracy Dillon, Joanne Barry, Shae Morris, Deima Prismantaite.

Past Choreographers

The choreographers we have worked with include:

Christina Houghton, Dana Kolesarova, Amandine Vighi, John Healey, Katie Thies, Lorraine Smith, Melody Squire, Deima Prismantaite, Rachel Burn, Sorrel Campbell-Johnston, Madeleine Wynne-Jones.