My movement journey...
I have loved moving from a young age, unable to sit still I was always seeing a route to explore. Up a tree or over the sofa, playing football, rugby, hockey, lacrosse or flying over a skate ramp. Whatever the activity was I was always curious as to what movement possibilities existed in my body. Movement was and is ultimately the thing that kept my attention. How all the sports supported and enhanced each other, it was one big puzzle.
Eventually I found myself in a dance studio, where I discovered a whole new world of options, pushing my body to always find that extra space, strength, stability or range. Over a decade of touring the world provided me with the privilege of working alongside many incredible movement artists that gave me access to processes, making me question and refine my practice.
The most precious thing I learnt was the power in failure. The value being in the attempt rather than the outcome.
“The master has failed more times than the beginner has even tried.”
Stephen McCranie
“The master has failed more times than the beginner has even tried.”
Stephen McCranie
The most precious thing I learnt was the power in failure. The value being in the attempt rather than the outcome.
My experiences of working with people from diverse training backgrounds, inspired me to play with movement and find a way of training that focused around the individual. By breaking down and learning to articulate my own personal processes of discovery has enabled me to become a more conscious practitioner. The opportunities afforded to me as a dancer gave me the access to teach all over, helping me realise I thrived on the process of creating and learning, rather than presenting a performance to an audience.
So this is me, and how I arrived where I am today, a time to research and play utilising those wonderings I had as a child. Linking the skills I built in all the different lectures, sports and dance classes I experienced. My constant curiosity to always look for ways to improve and push by exploring something else. Evolving the environment we move in, the challenge, the pattern, the pathway, the focus. Always evolving old ways to help assist and collect new ones.
A baby doesn’t try walking, fall over and think I failed therefore walking is not for me. They see, they try, they challenge and find a way to learn. Exercising that ‘failure’ I didn’t see as a child, as it was just part of playing and discovering the world. I only saw the bruises or grazes I gained from falling, which taught me to get up and try again, by looking for another way to approach it.
So let’s play more with movement and training as adults and experience how that can help us to continue discovering.
