Lea Floden
Acting Teacher/Coach, Los Angeles CA
"Lizzie Ballinger’s work is extraordinary. From the first session on, you will feel new depths of release, new freedom of expression, and a new sense of yourself. Her workshops will make you feel more connection, more ease, and more truth. I am sending all my students to her. Working with Lizzie just makes everything easier."
Jonathan Ajayi
Actor
'Working with Lizzie on a one-to-one basis is a must for anyone looking to take their work/practice further. Through the structure of her pure movement work, a common language develops, in which she is able to guide a profound, unpredictable and dynamic exploration in the character, the realities of who they are and what that means in the body. For both the actor and the character. She creates an environment of pure, creative play. She listens deftly and can tailor each session to both what you're looking to explore in a role, and where you are in your instrument, and she traverses the bridge between the two effortlessly. It really is remarkable to watch and take part in. To quote the end of our last session “Do less…. Discover more.”
Max Mindel
Actor
“I wanted to thank you and tell you how much your classes have changed my life…I can’t begin to describe to you how your classes and what I’ve learned from them, and still am, enabled me to become a better artist and also a better person…you’ve taught me how to use my body, how to connect to it, and that I had a body in the first place…You encouraged me to think with mind and body and through that, to create. Thank you. Thank you for teaching. Thank you for caring as much as you do.”
Published April 20, 2020 by Simon Jenner
“The quiet centripetal pull of the statue’s coming to life on the whole cast is both moving and ingeniously blocked – Elizabeth Ballinger’s movement through-out is outstanding.”
Sam Mitchell, Actor, London, UK
"Wow! The last 2 sessions have been some of the most liberating experience of my life! I have never before knew what it was to feel fully alive in my body except when maybe swimming on the beds of the ocean holding my breath. When I went outside I thought my feet might leave the ground! My entire being was just alive! It was great!
The fact that it just happened over a Zoom interaction highlights the complete dedication and detail and generosity you have in your work. I am so grateful... Just when I kept thinking I’ve ‘let go’, a wave of complete connection with my breath, movement and energy mustered up through the whole of me. It was absolutely immense! Liberating and freeing.
I have only been able to get to that place of complete release through not just the movements you offer but the encouragement with which you offer it. I’m not only understanding but experiencing the effects of movement with pure commitment, without effort.
I was going to hold off telling you the pleasure and benefits I get from your work but after that session some of the words could not wait and words only help describe the sensations. The beauty in the work I think is said with the body.”
Daniel Bowerbank
Actor/ Movement Practitioner, London, UK