Emilyn Claid for Takween Collective

Emilyn Claid is a professor of choreography at the University College of Falmouth. In the 60s, Emilyn became a ballet dancer. She became a founding member of X6 Dance Space and New Dance magazine in the 70s. In the 80s she was the artistic director of Ex-temporary Dance Theatre. In the 90s, she sought work as an independent performer and choreographer creating the solo show Virginia Minx at Play and choreography for companies such as CandoCo Dance Company and Phoenix Dance Company.

Her book “Yes? No! Maybe … Seductive Ambiguity in Dance” (Routledge 2006), investigates performer/spectator relations in Western contemporary dance theatre from the 1950s onwards. She has written a chapter, “Still Curious”, in the new Routledge Dance Reader (2010).

Her current research projects include the role of documentary holder for ArtsCross – a choreographic cross cultural project between RESCEN, Taipei National University of the Arts and Beijing Dance Academy.

During 2010-11 Emilyn led workshops, facilitated choreographic research labs and examined post graduate/PhD students at Hongkong Academy of Performing Arts, Auckland University New Zealand, The Dance House in Limassol Cyprus, Maqamat Dancehouse Beirut and SODA in Berlin.

Alongside her work as a professor of choreography, Emilyn is qualifying as a body orientated Gestalt psychotherapist, bringing the two worlds of psychosomatics and performance together as a teacher, mentor, consultant and choreographer.

Emilyn works between dance and theatre, on the edge between real and surreal images and movement. Her choreographic practice develops from a curiosity in how performers relate to one another as people, from a place of individual difference. This evening’s showing will highlight moments in the process of making work together.

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