Helen Kindred is a Senior Lecturer in Dance at Middlesex University London, teaching release-based technique, choreography and community dance practice on the undergraduate programmes and leading the MA Professional Practice, Dance Technique Pedagogy degree. Helen holds a BA (Dance Studies) and MFA (Choreography) from Roehampton University, where she also taught as a visiting lecturer before becoming a full-time member of faculty at Middlesex.

As a graduate dancer Helen trained in the US at Goucher College, Baltimore under (Chrystelle Bond and Juliet Forrest) and worked with New York based choreographer Doug Varone. Helen has also performed with Modem Dance Company, London and Daghdha Dance Company, Republic of Ireland, beginning her teaching career at the Parnell School for the Performing Arts, Dublin. Helen was Director of Hertsdance, (now DanceDigital) from 2001-2004, and has been active as a writer (Dance Theatre Journal, Dance Today, Dance Europe) and choreographer presenting work at Kraushaar Auditorium, USA, Michaelis Theatre, London, St. Alban’s Arena and the George Wenham Theatre, Hertfordshire, Harlow Playhouse, Essex, The Bull Theatre, Barnet, Lakeview Theatre, London, SIFDANS, at Bedford University, The Pentland Theatre, Arts Depot, London, Grove Theatre, London and via on-line arts events at .

Helen’s current area of research explores an interest in people and the facilitation of creativity through movement developing a dialogue between her pedagogic and performance practice.