RESEARCH
My research journey started with my Practice-as-Research Master’s at Middlesex University (London). Through my research studio sessions, I began exploring the inner voice as a tool for movement and text improvisation and devising.
Working with a few interdisciplinary participants - actors, dancers, and musicians - I researched creative processes that foregrounded inner speech, intuition, and sensation, resonating with themes of higher consciousness and awareness. In these sessions, using both mind and body, participants tuned into their inner speech and intuitive instincts, testing the relationship between these inner intuitive dimensions and the outer space. This practice opens up pathways for performers to connect more truthfully with themselves, the material they were generating, and their audiences.
This research marks the beginning of a longer creative inquiry that I intend to continue developing. I am deeply interested in further investigating how the inner voice can be accessed and activated through embodied practices, and how it informs artistic expression, felt-experience, and connection.
If you would like to read my full research thesis, feel free to get in touch.
As part of continuing this research journey, I often facilitate Inner Voice workshops for the MA Dance at Bath Spa University, bringing the enquiry around the inner voice into a new collaborative space. The sessions invited students to tune into their internal landscapes as a starting point for generating movement and text.
Through Bath’s Creative Playground, I continue to develop and share my research into the Inner Voice as a creative practice. Participants step into the Inner Voice as a tool for generating movement and text, tuning into their inner landscape as a starting point for improvisation and devising.
Bringing this research into new spaces remains an important part of the work, creating opportunities to connect with and expand the voices within the wider artistic community.