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This workshop will explore the ways in which our lived experiences and connections with nature, can inspire to tell important stories and collaborate through play. The practice will focus upon the paradox of restriction, working through rules, time and space constraints to produce collaborative story telling work for audiences.
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Claire Hind is Professor of Contemporary Theatre at York St John University, UK where she is the Postgraduate Research Lead for the School of the Arts. Her collaboration on the Ways to Wander projects with Dr Clare Qualmann have been instrumental in the international development of a culture of walking and experimental writing. Her methods of practice make connections between walking, creative writing and performance. Claire has taken international audiences through urban and natural landscapes, for sensory experiences of Quantum Listening (Oliveros) and she leads on dark sky walks and performances for the Dark Skies Festival through communal walking and dancing experiences with Dr Robert Wilsmore as The Long Dead Stars. Claire was a project associate on the Walking Publics / Walking Art research project co-curating The Walkbook: Recipes for Walking and Wellbeing. Claire also collaborates with Phil Smith and Helen Billinghurst on Walking Bodies (Triarchy Press) and is the co-author with Gary Winters on Embodying the Dead, Writing, Playing, Performing (Bloomsbury). She has toured her work internationally and has been a guest research practitioner at The Federal University of Rio, School of the Arts Institute, Chicago, Oslo Met University, New York University, and The Norwegian Theatre Academy
www.clairehind.com
