ARTISTS
Anna Casey
Anna is a movement artist, educator and producer living and working in the South West of England. Anna regularly lectures in higher education, most recently on the Movement, Mind and Ecology MA at Schumacher College. Anna also works within community contexts where she developed her Movement for Learning programme which she is beginning to integrate into wider CPD, FE and HE fields.
Anna was a founder member of Blank Studio's in Brighton, creating a hub for interdisciplinary practice, research and performance.
Anna has a particular interest in dialogues between the human and non-human worlds and how these can be utilised to generate a greater understanding of health, true sustainability and poetic activism. In response to this she has developed her own somatic movement pedagogy ‘The Listening Body’ a process of developing conversation with the field of self (human) and the environment through the multi-dimensional listening with the human and more than human worlds.
Links: https:// www.annacasey.co.uk
Rachel Sweeney
Rachel’s movement practice is grounded in ecological thinking around transdisciplinary approaches to body-place relationships. She is currently Program Lead for the MA in Movement Mind and Ecology at Schumacher College, Devon and was Head of Dance at Liverpool Hope University (2009-2021).
Rachel has worked internationally as a Visiting Fellow for the Humanities Research Centre at the Australian National University (2012) and as part of Irish-based Creevagh Arts and Archaeology Collective. Rachel is also the founder member of The Floating Village, which she formed together with Maria Kerin.
Links> www.rachelsweeney.org
Minou Tsambika
Minou is a movement artist, choreographer and visual artist currently working as freelance dance artist, dance producer, project manager and educator in the South West of England.Since 2017 she has worked as co-director of art.earth an organization dedicated to the dialogue between art and the natural world whom she also supports as project manager during their annual symposium. Minou is a member of the Somatic Communication Research Group steered by Nita Little, currently based at Bath Spa University.
As interdisciplinary artist Minou's work sits amongst the fields of dance and movement practice, movement philosophy, socially engaged arts practice, arts activism and visual art.
Links: https://www.minoutsambika.com/
