Peaky Blinders 2

25th March 2014

I just returned from Liverpool where I was working on the second season of the BBC’s ‘Peaky Blinders‘.  Cillian Murphy and Sam Neill starred in the first season and Tom Hardy has been added to the cast for the second season.  I choreographed a brilliantly wild and ferocious club scene.  The show is set in […]

MPAA 2012 Statistics

10th March 2014

The Motion Picture Association of America has published its movie going stats for 2012.  There are some interesting figures to pull out.  Firstly, and this continues the conversation about Women in Film, female attendance is up from 2011 by 1%.  So 52% of women attend cinema versus 48% of men.  This is in relation to […]

Best Oscar Dress

7th March 2014

I wasn’t particularly wowed by the dresses at the Oscars this year.  I think they have a tendency to look so ‘samy’ and don’t really say much about the person wearing them.  This was my favourite.  At least it had something interesting going on with the pleated ruffles at the shoulder.

Changing the World: One Pad at a Time

5th March 2014

No, not the IPAD.  This is an unbelievable article from the BBC about one man’s fight to bring affordable sanitary pads to women in poor communities around the world.  Once you get past the ‘ick’ factor (and if you’re a guy, I know you’re feeling it…as for us women, well, we deal with this all […]

Cuban Fury Reviews

14th February 2014

The dance-fight I choreographed for Cuban Fury has been getting rave reviews.  Check out this excerpt from View London: “…there is one stand-out sequence involving a brilliantly choreographed dance-off in a car park that is worth the price of admission. Similarly, Griffiths gets the tone of the film exactly right, pulling off an enjoyable feel-good […]

Women in Film

When I walked onto my first feature film set in 1998, I was one of a handful of females.  I was also young and the assumption was that I was either an actress, or part of make-up and hair.  Then, as now, the majority of film crews and HODs (heads of department) are men.  Although […]

Why the 40 Hour Work Week Wasn’t Such a Bad Idea

11th February 2014

Anyone who reads my blog on a regular basis knows that I often bang on about how people do not value their time enough. Film crews for instance, have been asked to work longer and longer hours for the same rate of pay. And in many cases, for an even lower rate of pay since […]

Muscles, Memory and Movement

When the body performs a movement, the muscles and the brain send messages to each other, forming a neural feedback loop that will be reactivated the next time this movement occurs. Sometimes, this loop can be interrupted or malformed through injury or bad habits, resulting in injury or muscular atrophy.  Lately, I’ve also been wondering […]