CURRICULUM VITAE
SELECTED PROJECTS
Arts For Health Cornwall and Isles of Scilly
Moving Forward Looking Back
Lead Artist. A year long project offering creative opportunities for older people throughout Cornwall which culminated in an exhibition, dance performances and a symposium at the Exchange Penzance and won The Arts and Health Southwest Award for Health 2013.
Quality of Life Project
Supporting care staff to use creative interventions with residents to improve the quality of life in the care setting.
Creativity In Care Settings
Co-devising and delivering a training course for care staff to deliver creative activities in the workplace.
Stroke Rehab Project
Dance sessions for stroke patients and creative participation training for the rehab support workers. Camborne Redruth Hospital.
University of Exeter Medical School
The Art of Aging
Medical Humanities Special Study Unit. Working with 4th year medical students to consider the ageing process from a non medical perspective and create an art work in response to this subject.
Singing For Wellbeing
Providing singing and movement sessions for older people, specialising in working with people with dementia and their carers in memory cafes, day care and residential settings.
The Works Dance & Theatre Cornwall
The Cultural Olympiad Big Dance 2012
Commission to create a performance with Marazion residents which was performed during the Olympic Torch Relay event on Marazion beach.
KEAP – The Story Republic.
Dance workshops in primary and secondary schools collaborating with writers to celebrate the work of Charles Causley.
MADE & KEAP
Small Steps Giant Leaps
Dance and Music sessions for pre-school children.
Shallal Dance Theatre Company
Movement for adults with profound multiple disabilities. Trevaylor Manor. Set design and design and making of costumes for the show ‘On The Line’.
PERFORMANCE
‘The Days’
Concept and Choreography Theo Clinkard, performed by Maria Nurmela and Ville Oinonen. Guest duet Caroline Schanche and George Peer. AMATA Falmouth Uni, November 2023.
https://www.marianurmela.com/the-days-project
‘Passage for Par’
Choreographed by Rosemary Lee. Commissioned by CAST (Cornubian Arts & Science Trust) and Dance Republic 2 for Groundwork, a season of international art in Cornwall. June 2018.
https://groundwork.art/
‘5 Songs’
Performance on the rooftops of Truro
‘Duets For Unusual Souls’
An intergenerational dance performance at The Corn Exchange nightclub in Camborne and at Hall for Cornwall.
Choreographed by Angela Praed.
Tipofyourtongue Spoken Word Festival
‘Wearable Words’
Poetry interactions with the unsuspecting public.
EDUCATION
Dartington College of Arts 1981-1985 Theatre BA (Hons)
Hertfordshire College of Art & Design 1989-1991 Postgraduate Diploma Dance Movement Therapy
Mandorla Therapy Institute 1998-2001 Diploma Counselling Skills with Transpersonal Perspectives
Truro College December 2009 CEIH Professional Trainer Professional
Professional Member of People Dancing, The Foundation for Community Dance.