Resident Faculty
Emma Loftus
(L.I.S.T.D. Cecc.,PdB 1, S.D.S.)
Emma trained at KS Dance Ltd, UK in a variety of disciplines then moved on to work for the Vienna Festival Ballet Company touring UK and Europe. After moving to Malta Emma has worked in numerous productions including The Dreamcatchers, and The Bard’s Farewell (The New Theatre Company), Spelling Bee (Salesian Theatre), Silhouette’s in the Moonlight (Zugraga), Dido and Eneas (Teatru Manoel Opera), My Fair Lady, Hairspray, High School Musical, Chicago, Cinderella, Ali Baba, Are Your Being Served and 'Allo 'Allo (FMT), Oliver! Honk, Beauty and the Beast, Hair, Legally Blonde, Jesus Christ Superstar, Dracula Spectacular, Dazzle, Scream for Halloween (Stagecoach Malta), Peter and the Wolf (Manoel Theatre), Carnival of Animals (St James Cavalier) Wizard of Oz (Panto) Midsummer Night’s Dream and Glorious (MADC), 100 (Teatru Anon), Sepja and Some Explicit Polaroids (Unifaun), Dance Fusion (Alegria), More Four Play and Four Play Four (DNA), Porn the Musical (Indeskarf). Various performances and festivals for Tanya Bayona Poutiatine Academy, Stagecoach Malta, Academy of Dance Arts, Creative Dance Studio and Incite Motion. Emma now works as a full-time drama teacher as well as a freelance dance teacher and
choreographer. She is also a resident teacher at Living Dance Malta.
choreographer. She is also a resident teacher at Living Dance Malta.
Sarah Vella
Sarah Vella is a dancer/choreographer and therapist from Malta, based in Berlin. Sarah has completed her Bsc. (Hons.) in Speech and Language Therapy from the University of Malta, her Diploma in Dance Studies at Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Dance and her Dance/movement therapy education at Tanztherapie Zentrum Berlin. Sarah has been based in Berlin since 2011, where she has worked on various dance, site-specific, film and opera projects as a dancer and choreographer.
Sarah has presented her work in Malta (Notte Bianca Festival, Spazju Kreattiv), England, Italy, Norway and Germany (100Grad Berlin Festival, Nah Dran series, Theaterforum Kreuzberg). As an artist, she is very interested in exploring authenticity on stage and genuinity in improvisation and throughout the creative process. As a dance/movement therapist, Sarah organises various community workshops,/projects for different age groups, namely individuals with autism and with dementia. Her upcoming project is a research residency for Maltese teens, as part of the Spazju Kreattiv AiR Programme, in collaboration with Agenzija Zghazagh. She is also currently working on a new project with M-R-S Collective, on a dance/film project with Peter Uhr and she continues to teach dance workshops and work as a freelance dance artist and therapist in Berlin, Malta and abroad.
More info: www.sarah-vella.com
Sarah has presented her work in Malta (Notte Bianca Festival, Spazju Kreattiv), England, Italy, Norway and Germany (100Grad Berlin Festival, Nah Dran series, Theaterforum Kreuzberg). As an artist, she is very interested in exploring authenticity on stage and genuinity in improvisation and throughout the creative process. As a dance/movement therapist, Sarah organises various community workshops,/projects for different age groups, namely individuals with autism and with dementia. Her upcoming project is a research residency for Maltese teens, as part of the Spazju Kreattiv AiR Programme, in collaboration with Agenzija Zghazagh. She is also currently working on a new project with M-R-S Collective, on a dance/film project with Peter Uhr and she continues to teach dance workshops and work as a freelance dance artist and therapist in Berlin, Malta and abroad.
More info: www.sarah-vella.com