Imogen Knight on Movement, working on HBO's Chernobyl and The Crucible at the Old Vic

Imogen is a movement director and artist working with the body with choreography, connectivity and somatic movement. 

She works across a number of mediums from theatre, Film and TV, classical and electronic music, performance and visual art, photography and opera. 

Musically, she’s worked with some of the brightest minds in the industry such as the London Sinfonietta, Southbank Sinfonia, London Contemporary Orchestra, Matthew Herbert, Keeley Forsyth, Anna Phoebe and Isobel Waller-Bridge. As well as the English National Opera (ENO) and many others. 

As a movement director she’s been involved in:

• Look Back in Anger, Almeida most recently
• Under Milk Wood, National starring Michael Sheen
• Les Blancs, National, starring Elliot Cowan and Danny Sapani
• King Lear, Almeida, starring Danny Sapani and Faith Omole
• The Crucible, Old Vic, directed by Yaël Farber

For TV:

• Harlots, ITV
• Patrick Melrose, Sky Atlantic starring Benedict Cumberbatch
• Call the Midwife, Hollow Crown, BBC
• Chernobyl, HBO & Sky Atlantic - and much more!

Imogen discusses her process as movement director, how each performer has a unique way of moving and her time working on the smash-hit series Chernobyl. A superb drama documenting how reactor 4 at the Chernobyl power plant exploded in 1986 and the ways in which the Soviet Union tried its best to cover it up. Starring Jared Harris, Stellan Skarsgård, Jessie Buckley and Laura Elphinstone. 

In addition, her time working on The Crucible at the Old Vic, particularly through the intense Act 3 of the play where the girls conduct their “victory dance” in the court. 

A great conversation about how she works with actors across different mediums and the best way to communicate without any words at all. 

Oliver Gower

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