Sachi Kimura and Andrea Hazel Lewis talk about their research and where their creative disciplines intersect within actor training in a conservatoire setting.

Sachi Kimura is a movement director, teacher, intimacy director and theatre-maker, currently Senior Movement Tutor at Mountview Academy. She trained at The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, Shiki theatre company, Ecole de Phillipe Gaulier and Scola Commedia Dell’arte. She brings more than 25 years of performance experience in theatre, films and TV in the UK, Europe and Japan. She regularly collaborates with companies such as Fevered Sleep and The Clod Ensemble. Her recent movement direction credits include Missing People (Leeds Playhouse), Light Shining in Buckinghamshire, Widows (RCSSD), Out of Time, King Lear (Miracle Theatre).