Claire is making a star shape with her right leg standing on the ground and the left at a perpendicular position off the ground. Her mouth is wide open and one of her harm carries dried cow parsley all other. She's standing in the middle of Hackney Marshes at the end of the summer when the grass has turned yellow and dry.
Movement exploration

This indoors class explores intuitive, playful movement in dialogue with the environment.

Open to all levels, the session fosters curiosity, awareness, and a deeper connection with yourself and your surroundings.

It's summer in Hackney Marshes. The grass is yellow and dry. Claire is curling up onto herself like a shell or a snail, her hands behind her back. She seems deep relaxed and embedded in the place. She has become fully part of the landscape.
Outdoor movement

Explore moving with the landscape as your partner rather than using it as a backdrop.

Open to all levels and bodies, this practice develops movement that becomes part of the landscape.

Claire has her eyes closed and is entangled with wild carrots. She's hugging them slightly with a deep sense of peacefulness and connection with them and Hackney Marshes.
Feral workshop

Reconnect with primal, instinctive ways of being and learn from the more-than-human.

Supported by practices of my book How to be feral, you’re taken on a journey to re-wild your body. 

Find out about my teaching style

Watch this video of me talking and moving about how to move your own way. 

Amerta movement

My movement practice and teaching is based in the tradition of Amerta movement.

Amerta movement was founded by Suprapto Suryodarmo, an Indonesian movement artist who I had the pleasure to work with a few years before his death. I discovered the practice with Sandra Reeve, who has studied with Suprapto for over 30 years and who is an amazing teacher in her own respect. 

When I was introduced with Amerta movement, it spoke to me immediately as it truly acknowledges that we are in dialogue with everything that surrounds us, not separate from it.

What I also really liked about it is that it didn’t ask me to follow a particular form. Instead it encouraged me to develop my own form in awareness that its expression is in dialogue with the environment.

Hackney Marshes

As soon as I was introduced to Amerta movement, I very quickly developed my own movement art practice in Hackney Marshes in London.

In 2018 I met Dominique Rivoal a filmmaker who started filming me move there. Without planning it this became a long-term project as we’ve been filming there for over 6 years now.

Out of our collaboration, we created a 4 screens installation with 3D soundscape called ‘We are plants, we are grass, we are Hackney Marshes.’ 

As a result of my regular practice in Hackney Marshes for many years I also produced a book called How to be feral: movement practices to re-wild your body. And I offer workshops which are specifically based on the practices I developed in the book.