About the Class
Monday 13th September – Sunday 13th December
Age:16+
Teacher: Tess Letham and Guest Teachers
At Dance Base our classes feature Cunningham, Release, Flying-Low, improvisation and more.
This Advanced/Professional Contemporary class is inspired by David Zambrano’s Flying Low and Passing Through methods. Class begins with playful group tasks that interconnect us to the space and to each other, travelling and spiralling in pathways through the room. We will then focus on specific movement sequences that explore gathering and sending the whole body, moving into and out of the floor with ease, efficiency and the joy of dancing together.
This class is suitable for those working at advanced and professional level of technique.
Please note: Classes are offered at Pro Drop In Rate of £5.50 for those who are in dance training, or who are actively working in the dance sector at a professional level in areas of performing, making, teaching and/or choreographing.
Meet the Teachers
Tess Letham
Tess is an award winning performer and prominent dance-theatre maker based in Edinburgh.
She is a highly accomplished teacher who has worked with organisations including Scottish Dance Theatre, The Place, the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, Northern School of Contemporary Dance, and Dance Base. Her teaching methodologies are strongly informed by her extensive training with internationally renowned teacher David Zambrano, encompassing Flying Low, Passing Through, Improvisation for Performance, and more recently, Couple Dancing. She shares this work across the UK and internationally. Tess also has extensive experience teaching in community and engagement settings, with a particular passion for youth dance.
Tess’s performance work spans theatre, film, outdoor work and large-scale spectacle. She has collaborated with Two Destination Language, Al Seed Productions, Shotput, Edinburgh International Festival 2024, Abby Warrilow, Simon Fildes/Cagoule, David Zambrano, PanicLab, and Mairead McClean/The Wapping Project, and has also performed in several of her own original works.
Her recent productions include SPECTRAL, commissioned for Hidden Door 2025, and What Ever Happened to Harmony Banks? which premiered at Dance Base Festival 2025, both receiving high praise from audiences and critics.
Upcoming projects include a choreographic commission with Scottish Dance Theatre, titled Off-Season, which will premier in March 2026, and choreographer for National Youth Dance Company Scotland.
tesslethamprojects.co.uk
@tessletham