Marla is a freelance dance artist, facilitator and climate justice advocate. She trained at Northern School of Contemporary Dance (2016-2018) and was then an apprentice dancer with National Dance Company Wales, rehearsing and performing work by choreographers including Alexandra Waierstall,Fearghus Ó Conchúir, Nikita Goile and Caroline Finn. She has since worked as a freelance dance artist with Rhiannon Faith Company, Rendez Vous Dance, Gwyn Emberton, Eleesha Drennan, Impelo, Elisabeth Schilling, Jack Philp and National Dance Company Wales. 

Marla's advocacy work for socio-ecological justice is interwoven in her creative projects and activism. She is a co-creator of the Glanio collective - a collaboration between 3 creatives who came together to explore a creative response to the climate and ecological emergency we face, sharing a strong belief in the transformative power of arts in relation to climate action, as a gateway for climate communication and facilitating space to lean into the care and compassion needed to take collective action centring climate justice, in partnership with Impelo. She's also an active member of the Equity for a Green New Deal network, advocating and campaigning for climate justice within the sector and beyond. She is a co-facilitator and board member of the Resilience Project, a youth-led organisation with a vision to empower young people who are experiencing climate anxiety and burnout from activism.

Marla also facilitates learning for arts organisations around embedding values of climate justice and ecological consciousness within their work. She has worked with artists and organisations including Glasshouse Dance, VOXED, The Motion Pack, Glasshouse Dance, CoDa Dance, YDance, and Sustainable Arts in Leeds.

Marla has worked with RCD as Supporting Acts commissioned artist in 2022, and as a climate specialist since 2023. This is her first season dancing with the company as an original cast member in Land Empathy, and a new dancer to Hot House. 

Juan Sanchez Plaza, is a Professional Dancer, choreographer and teacher from Spain, who has been based in London for  five years. He has worked with Agudo Dance Company, Tom Dale Company, Persona Collective, Flute Theatre alongside co-funding and creating his own work with Nomad Dance Collective, touring ''The Renegade Master'', ''D(US)T'', and ''Nomades'' in the UK, Spain, Germany and Ecuador. 2021-2022. 

Juan is as well a Certified Yoga Teacher by the Yoga Alliance and he is currently finishing his university studies of Environmental Sciences in the UNED. Juan graduated at SEAD - Salzburg Experimental Academy of Dance in 2018, after graduating in the Professional Conservatory of Dance in Valencia -Spain in 2014.

Juan's started collaborating with RCD in 2022 on the creation of Hot House and has since then performed in Infinite Ways Home (2023) and Vast Rocks Revisited (2023). He will be an original cast member of Land Empathy.