Originally from Canada, Ingrid Mackinnon is a dancer, movement director, choreographer and teacher.
Her movement direction credits include Regents Park, Royal Shakespeare Company, Arcola Theatre and Lyric. She teaches at dance and actor movement at schools such as Guildhall, Mountview and Royal Central School of Speech & Drama.
As a performer her credits include Dallas Black Dance Theater and Disney’s The Lion King in the west end. She has an MA in Movement: Direction & Teaching from Royal Central School of Speech and Drama. She lives in south London with her husband and son.
In this conversation, we talk about growing up in Canada combining her love of dance with her mother’s insistence that she maintain straight As.
She tells me about seeing a stage full of dancers of colour for the first time and how that spurred her on to become a professional dancer.
How her stints of dancing around the world, meeting her husband, moving to London, becoming a mum all shaped and moulded her into being the person she is today and how still often being the only of woman of colour in the room has influenced her growth as a person, a dancer and a movement director.
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