The truth is in the detail.
Captivate’s work in movement direction and consultancy is unique and innovative. Our creatives utilise an incredible depth of skills from a swathe of movement disciplines to enrich a project, support performers and impact the audience.
Our movement work leans into physical story-telling, biomechanics, movement safety, imagination and transformation. We welcome the ‘unusual’ and thrive in creating compelling and affecting moments. When used most effectively, our movement directors can be in the room throughout the production process, to aid the director and coach performers as we go.
With 20 years of industry experience, our movement directors know how to work with cast and crew to reach creative aims in the most effective ways across a range of projects.
We understand how movement and physical detail communicates narrative, and how this can be used to augment performances and story.
We understand how to work with performers with a range of movement capabilities, so that directions are accessible and empowering for each artist.
And we understand how to integrate creative needs with technical requirements, and how this relates to key design elements of a piece.
“I have never seen such gorgeous movement in an opera, as directed by Lyndall Grant”
Safety support.
A key part of our work, which many production companies are now utilising, is consultancy for movement safety. For any moment of physical risk, we can help cast and crew with creative solutions that don’t just support the story, but elevate it.
In Australia, our movement directors are also all fight directors, so the one creative can handle all of the dynamic movement and action across the project.
Here to help.
Our process starts with a conversation – let us know what you need, and we’ll give you a frank description of how we could contribute to your project.
Just get in touch with any questions.
“there’s a sequence of destruction that is both stylised and visceral. Bodies flung to the ground violently. The sounds of explosions and the strafing of gunfire. People struggling to cross an open field, a sand drift, the steep stairs. Falling down dead. Over and over and over. It’s unsettling. It’s upsetting.”
Our Movement Directors
australia
Lyndall Grant (she/her)
Company movement director, fight director, performance capture specialist.
Lyndall is one of Australia’s leading movement practitioners. She comes from a background in dance, gymnastics, international-level sports and a prior career in veterinary medicine. Her work centres around physical story-telling, and how to use physical detail to support narrative, emotional truth and character choices. Lyndall’s particular speciality is physical transformation into bold physical characters, believable animals or non-human creatures.
As a fight director, Lyndall has vast experience in working with movement safety, and in innovating how this is achieved while flattering performance and the technical needs of a piece. She has a knack for understanding how to direct actors from a range of movement backgrounds and capabilities, empowering them to deliver their best work.
U.K. and ireland
Gabrielle Moleta (she/her)
Associate movement director
Gabrielle is a director, movement coach and theatre maker. She is the founder and director of Company Gabrielle Moleta. As a movement director Gabrielle’s work has been seen nationally and internationally on all scales of theatre. For more than two decades she has worked in Transformation and Imaginative Improvisation with its specific focus in animal work for character creation.
Gabrielle’s work is spell-binding in its ability to engage actors and audience, creating imaginative and textured works that encompass the whole performer. She has a gift for unlocking physical expression in performers, and enabling them to expand into detailed movement performance.