About Frances

 
 

Frances Collier…

  • Creative Injury Mentor and Founder of the online platform Bodylistics® 

  • Head of Physical Consultancy and Injury Mentor for WestEnd productions (including Chariots of Fire On Stage, Once, A Little Life, Sunny Afternoon, Cock, Strangers On A Train, Two Ladies, The Lion the Witch and The Wardrobe, etc)

  • Personal therapist to well-known lead actors and cast and crew on big film productions since 2011 (including 007 Skyfall, 007 Spectre, Starwars, Mary Poppins Returns, Beauty & The Beast, Matilda The Movie, Jurassic Park, Indiana Jones, Avengers, The Favourite etc)  

  • Trained at London’s Rambert School in 1992 and has had a full-time professional dance  career for over 20 years in repertory companies abroad and freelancing in London 

  • In parallel to dancing professionally, Frances has trained extensively as a bodyworker, movement coach, yoga teacher and NLP master practitioner and is now in her 14th year working as a physical consultant in the performing industry

Frances has established herself as a sought-after industry-insider Injury Mentor who specialises in working with professional performers, artists and sports people as well as helping active people from all walks of life. She has over three decades of experience in providing in-person as well as on-line injury management and prevention, movement coaching, training and physical consultancy for individual dancers and performers as well as famous Movie and West End theatre productions. She is the founder of Bodylistics® - your Online Movement Pharmacy® (www.bodylistics.com), a platform created specifically for helping injured dancers and performers not only to get back to full recovery but to maintain full health throughout their movement life, both during and post career. 

Having graduated as a professional dancer at Rambert School in London in 1994, Frances spent two decades dancing with full time repertory companies in Europe and as a freelance artist in London. Her professional experience covers performing a wide range of ballet, contemporary and musical repertory as well as being rehearsal director and choreographer on various projects whilst having studied and built a thorough on-and-off-stage-understanding when it comes to injury management and prevention. 

She has developed a very personal and bespoke approach that uniquely integrates all aspects of life and individual circumstances, with her focal point lying on breaking pa\erns and habits, leading to efficient and long-lasting improvement, and most importantly igniting spark and movement-health-passion again. Amalgamating a unique wealth of experience in respected movement practices, somatic fascia therapy, functional anatomy, hands-on dissection courses, abdominal-visceral therapy, dynamic yoga and neurolinguistic programming NLP which are deeply complemented by her knowledge as a professional dancer, performer, trainer, coach, life-lover, mentor and therapist to high-profile actors and sports people.