Active Body Beats Beginner Level DVD

Ollie Tunmer has been delivering workshops since 2001 for the education, corporate and community music sectors. He gained a BMus (Hons) from Kingston University and later a PGCE in Secondary Music from Canterbury Christ Church University. He is a qualified music teacher and now delivers percussion workshops on a full time basis as the Artistic Director of 'Beat Goes On'.

Ollie regularly works at the Teach First Summer Institute at Leeds University. He delivers workshops for British & International schools across the globe and for the COBIS Schools Council.

Ollie’s workshops include STOMP-style Body Percussion (former cast member of the hit show STOMP), and Brazilian Samba Drumming (Ollie performed in the 2002 Rio de Janeiro carnival). As well as leading Professional Development sessions for music specialists, Ollie also promotes the use of music as a means of encouraging wellbeing, for both individuals and teaching communities. Participants to all sessions gain a great deal, regardless of prior musical experience.

Ollie aims to pass on his passion for music to all that he works with.

Anna Llombart is a tap dance and body percussion dancer, teacher and choreography assistant born in Barcelona. In Spain she co-founded the tap company Tapeplas (2002-2010, directed by Sharon Lavi) and joined as a member of the tap company Tap Olé  (2008, directed by Guillem Alonso). As a freelance tap dancer she has also collaborated in contemporary dance shows (Pell de Taronja by Natalia Viñas), contemporary dance video clips (Andante by Susana Rodriguez), street shows (Minstrel Show by Sedajazz) and most recently the Christmas comercial spot for Freixenet. In London she has joined the tap companies Old Kent Road (directed by Avalon Rathgeb) and Sole Rebel Tap (directed by Hannah Ballard). As a body percussion teacher she has delivered many workshops all over Spain and also in remarkable places in London such as the National Center for Circus Arts, The Place, Wak Arts, Jacksons Lane Youth Program and Stockholm Tap Festival. Alongside Oliver Tunmer she filmed the body percussion tutorials DVD Active Body Beats for the company Kids Into Action. Also she collaborates and performs as a body percussion soloist alongisde with the choir The Voice Energy Project. As a choreographer and choreography assistant she has worked with contemporary theatre companies such as La Jarra Azul and La Invenció in Spain and Mimbre Acrobats, and The Dragon Café Choir in London. She also gives choreography advise to many artists from several artistic origins willing to deepen their approach to rhythm. For more information about her work please visit www.annallombart.com.