Diana Scrivener FCCM FGMS LRAD was trained at the Bush Davies Ballet School and the Royal Academy of Dancing in London, graduating from the Academy with a Licentiate Diploma. At college she studied extensively with the late Belinda Quirey MBE, a leading authority on dance history. She is now a specialist in the choreography and interpretation of early dance forms.

Her choreography has been performed widely in England and abroad, ranging from large-scale concerts to student productions. She was the Assistant Choreographer for the highly-acclaimed BAFTA and Oscar-winning film 'Elizabeth', a remake of 'The Four Feathers',  'Nicholas Nickleby', ' and 'Bertie & Elizabeth' for Channel Four.   She was featured in 'Time Tourists', a history programme made by Meridian Television and worked on the production of 'A Chaste Maid in Cheapside' for the Almeida Theatre Company Ltd.  She was interviewed for the BBC programme 'A Dance Through Time'.  She worked as Dance Historian and Consultant on a documentary for Channel 4/Discovery entitled 'The Tournament - The Making of a Knight' which was broadcast this Spring in the UK.  Her most recent film work was as Assistant Choreographer for the feature films 'Asylum',  'The Libertine' and ' Casanova'.

Earlier this year Diana worked as Movement Assistant with the Royal Shakespeare Company on their production of 'Women Beware Women'.

Performance venues as a dancer have included the magnificent palace at Versailles, the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, The Alhambra in Spain and London's Covent Garden and Shakespeare's Globe.

 She is internationally renowned for conducting workshops specializing in the history of western dancing and has taught regularly at many of the Higher Education colleges in London which offer training in either dance or drama. Currently she holds week-end workshops and classes in her home county of Dorset, for dancers and non-dancers alike, as well as on-going teaching commitments in London.   Diana was guest tutor at Villanella, a dance school in St Petersburg which organizes an annual festival of historical and ethnic dance and is called Anno-Domini (www.anno-domini.spb.ru).   She taught a diversity of periods to an enthusiastic and dedicated group of 100 students, who came from Russia, Belarus and Latvia.

This picture shows Diana giving a lecture to the students during a well-earned respite!  And the one below shows some of the participants dancing an Italian Renaissance Ballo.  They were taken by Daina and Juris Zalans from Riga, Latvia.

Following on from this visit, Diana was invited to return to St Petersburg in October 2005, where she  conducted another three days of master classes to a group of 30 students.  In December, she visited Moscow for the first time and taught a week-end of Baroque Dance master classes.  Please see the following link for an article written about the classes. http://context.themoscowtimes.com/story/158350/

Diana has also taught on the Nonsuch (History & Dance) Ltd Summer School.  

Publications include a two-part guide for acting students and the first book in a series of guides for teachers, in addition to articles in dance history journals and a paper on the role of Early Dance in Education given at the 1999 Early Dance Circle conference held at the Royal Society of Arts.    

Diana was awarded a Fellowship of Curwen College of Music in November 2001, having submitted a thesis on baroque choreography, and was invited to serve on the Council in 2002.  To find out more about  Curwen College of Music please follow this link http://mysite.wanadoo-members.co.uk/curwen

In September 2006 Diana was awarded a Fellowship of The Guild of Musicians and Singers.  To read more about this organisation please follow the link www.musiciansandsingers.org.uk

She is a member of the Dance Research Committee of the Imperial Society of Teachers of Dancing, the Early Dance Circle and Nonsuch (History & Dance).