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Creative ID: 323

Art form(s): Theatre
Language(s): English
Based in: Wellington
Where I'm available:
Canterbury, Hawke’s Bay, Wellington
When I'm available: I currently have open availability.

My arts or creative practice (including details about my specific focus within that art form/practice and my strengths)

I am an experienced applied improvisation facilitator. I use adapted versions of traditional improv games and exercises to facilitate development and well-being. I provide experiential learning on co-creation, collaboration, active listening and relational communication all within an environment of deep joy and a lot of fun. I work with young people who are shy and yet to discover their voice and with those who are confident extroverts, everyone together in the same space, supporting the group to discover how to learn and grow together. Applied improvisation is also a fabulous foundation for devising original theatre and I can guide a group towards a wider school or public performance.

My track record of experience and success - or the track record of experience and success of the creative or artist that I will partner with

I am the Artistic Director of a charitable trust with a 15-year history of using play and performance for community development and well-being. I am a graduate and Associate of the New York-based East Side Institute and professionally connected with a global community of play and performance practitioners and development agencies/organisations.

Describe the experience you have had working with children or young people, teaching or facilitating creative processes

I have been facilitating groups of young people for over 15 years, in open and closed community settings. Recently with: an Intermediate (Youth leadership), Multi-cultural Youth Drama Club (devising theatre project), Prison's Youth Units, (Performance film project) High schools(refugee and new migrant students and devised theatre), and eight intermediate schools across New Zealand (part of a film-making project).

Why I want to be part of the Creatives in Schools programme and how my involvement will link to my creative practice

Creating opportunities for young people to playfully perform provides them the space to explore not only who they are but who they have the potential to become. It allows a child to perform, in the words of Leo Vygotsky, 'a head taller.' I love providing this playful space for children to practice their innate sociality and to develop alongside others.

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