Katya Bloom is a movement psychotherapist in private practice in London. She taught Dance Movement Therapy at the University of Surrey Roehampton from 1985 until 2002. She is a Certified Movement Analyst from the Laban/Bartenieff Institute of Movement Studies in New York, and is a qualified teacher of Suprapto Suryodarmo's Amerta Movement. She also teaches movement to actors at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and is the author of two stage plays. She is co-author with Rosa Shreeves of Moves: A Sourcebook of Ideas for Body Awareness and Creative Movement (1998). She has pursued her interest in the interrelationships between psychoanalysis and movement since coming to London from the USA in… 1983, culminating in her Ph.D., "Movement as a Psychophysical Process," under the auspices of the University of E. London and the Tavistock Clinic, in 2005.
Mel Churcher was an actor and broadcaster for many years. She is now best known as an international acting, dialogue, voice and presentation coach and has run workshops and given lectures all over the world. She is one of the top acting and dialogue coaches in movies (see her entry on imdb for full details). She runs screen acting workshops for professional actors and regularly teaches in Cologne and Berlin and at the Actors Centre in London.
David Carey Jr. is Professor of History and Women and Gender Studies at the University of Southern Maine and author of Engendering Mayan History: Kaqchikel Women as Agents and Conduits of the Past, 1875–1970, Ojer taq tzijob’�l kichin ri Kaqchikela’ Winaqi’ (A History of the Kaqchikel People), and Our Elders Teach Us: Maya-Kaqchikel Historical Perspectives.