Choreographer · Performer · Teacher
Dance made with sensual precision, theatricality, and emotional depth.
Independent dance artist based in London, with forty years of making work, performing, and teaching across Australia, Japan, the United States, Spain and the UK.
Mother, current workPhoto: Jack Thomson
Nominated, Critics’ Circle National Dance Awards 2024–25
Creator of ThreadWorks
Award-winning choreographer
Selected works
Current and recent
MotherCurrent
This Restless HouseCurrent
My Own Private MovieCurrent
Practice
Sharing forty years of knowledge, in the studio and one to one.
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Teaching
Improvisation, composition and choreography, from vocational training to company classes in Spain, Sweden and Germany.
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Mentoring
For choreographers and dance artists who want to develop their practice, strengthen their professional position and move their careers forward.
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ThreadWorks
A movement practice for connection and creativity, offered as team workshops for organisations and wellbeing sessions for communities.
“… atmospheric work which showed real depth of thinking, physicality and choreographic approach. The mood and images resonated with me for a long time after.”
Eckhard Thiemann, curator and programmer, on Mother
About
Susan Kempster is a choreographer, performer, teacher, theatre maker and movement coach/director. Originally from Sydney, Australia, her career has taken her to Tokyo, New York, Madrid and Barcelona, and she is now based in London.
Susan makes work with highly skilled dancers that is sensual, musical and alive with the ambiguous theatricality that only dance can offer.