A hands-on weekend for artists and healthcare professionals interested in developing the relationships between arts, health and wellbeing – and the opening of doors between artistic practice and both mainstream and alternative healthcare. 

These two days offer an environment for shared creative experiences. We will begin using movement in order to step away from intellectual processes into a deeper awareness of the present moment and our bodies, senses and feelings. 

How can we be more imaginatively awake to our 'selves' as well as the needs of others? Through an exploration of the connections between the body, mind and environment - through moving, writing and creating - the workshop will offer ways to replenish ourselves and to deepen our understanding of health as an 'embodied' process. 

'You could say that creativity is fundamental... and what we really have to explain are those processes that are not creative.' 
- David Bohm Noel prize winning physicist

Venue: Moving Arts Base
134 Liverpool Rd, Islington, London N1 1LA
 

For further information including how to apply 
Please download the project details from www.movingartsbase.co.uk 
or email admin@movingartsbase.co.uk  
Tel. 020 7609 6969 

Cost: £180 (£120 unwaged) 
There is no longer a deadline for applications but only a limited number of places left - you are therefore advised to book as soon as possible.

Suitable for:
Professional artists whose work contains a strong focus on the body (for example, dance / physical theatre / circus / mime / live art) who also have an active interest or existing practice in working in healthcare settings.

Health professionals, whether in the conventional or complementary health industries, who have an active interest or existing practice in engaging with the arts in healthcare settings.

Miranda Tufnell: After a degree in English, Miranda trained as a dancer, Alexander teacher & craniosacral therapist, initially at the London School of Contemporary Dance and the Cunningham Studio in New York, she then worked to develop a more personal movement language through skills developed from Contact Improvisation, Release work, Tai' Chi and bodywork. Since 1976 she has been showing her work in galleries and theatres throughout Britain and abroad, often creating site-specific events with light and sound environments. Her work explores movement as the 'language' of the body's sensory and inner experience. She has taught widely throughout the country including Dartington College of Arts andFellside Alexander School.  She has worked part-time for 14 years within the NHS for a GP surgery, and developed a four year arts and health project, a Breath of Fresh Air for people living with chronic illness.  

Gill Clarke: Gill is an independent dance artist, was a founder member of Siobhan Davies Dance Company, and has performed and collaborated with other choreographers including Rosemary Butcher, Rosemary Lee, Janet Smith. She regularly leads master classes and workshops internationally and was Head of Performance Studies at Laban. Recent collaborations include a multi-screen installation - Stones and Bones - with filmmaker Becky Edmunds, which focuses in on rhythmic movement through and between bodies. She is co-director of Independent Dance, an artist-led organization supporting professional dance artists and was a member of the 'choreographic lab' research project supported by Northampton University. 

Chris Crickmay: Chris is an independent installation artist, teacher and writer with a particular interest in improvisation and performance. For many years he has been concerned with the role of the imagination in everyday life and the creative possibilities open to all. He has worked extensively in Higher Education, and collaborates across the arts on various performance projects.
 
Chris Crickmay and Miranda Tufnell are the co-authors of two books
entitled: Body, Space, Image: Notes Towards Improvisation and Performance,
Dance Books, (1990) and A Widening Field: Journeys in Body and Imagination, Dance Books, (2004). 

Sylvia Hallett: Sylvia works as a composer, improviser, performer and teacher. She has toured internationally with theatre (RSC, Young Vic), with bands (LaXula), and has composed music for BBC radio plays and dance/theatre companies. She has worked with Miranda Tufnell for the last 20 years, their creative work together developing and researching into the connections between the imagination, movement and health. She has worked extensively with children with physical disabilities, and has recently been playing music in elderly day care centres, which leads into conversations on the memories of childhood.