Hattie Worboys is a versatile artist skilled in multimedia, education, and Laban-trained dance, with over 20 years of experience leading movement training/workshops for people of all ages.
Working with art institutions, galleries (e.g. Hauser & Wirth), museums (e.g. Holburne Museum, V&A), public street parties, film/festivals (e.g. Picture House Cinemas) and site-specific video/dance installations in venues all around Europe (e.g. Venice Biennale).
Hattie fosters inspiration and curiosity in safe learning environments, creating site-specific choreography pieces, dance films, and immersive audio/video installations. Successful and ongoing working relationships with NGOs, scientists, education specialists, charities, arts organisations and schools.
Since 2015, Hattie has been dedicated to developing dance workshops and facilitating connections among children, delivering and connecting children in: Greece, London, Rio de Janeiro, Mumbai, New Orleans, Egypt and Zimbabwe.
Throughout her journey, she has formed collaborative teams that intertwine dance, film, sound, installations, teaching, and somatic psychological research. Her practice involves conducting professional site-based dance-film shoots, exploring the profound connections and emotional qualities of dance through multimedia technologies.
Hattie works closely with the BTM academics specialising in improvised movement, psychotherapy (including trauma sensitivity), and neurodiversity. Together, they are developing a curriculum for future educators, aiming to incorporate meaningful connections and embodied experiences into teaching practices.
Dr Terry Sweeting, 2023 NDS Dance Scholar Award Recipient, is a complete advocate for dance education and has advanced dance education for children through her three books, five journal articles and twenty-four national and regional presentations, including nine funded grants.
She has taught dance-related subjects in educational institutions at California State University, Northridge (CSUN), in Canada and Singapore. Dr Sweeting was recognised by CSUN for her quality work on research and for her sponsorship of projects with the CSUN SHINE President’s Award twice.
Her research grants promoted children’s dance and physical education with Title 1 schools in the Los Angeles School District.
Dr Sweeting is currently working with a team of educators and technicians in London, England, to develop video programmes for children and families, connecting disenfranchised communities through the healing energy of creative dance.
Her integrity as a teacher and her passion for dance are always evident.
Oliver Schofield is a London-based Director of Photography (DoP) who works in Commercials, Branded Content & Documentaries worldwide. He has been DoP and filmed numerous documentaries for the BBC and other channels for global broadcast. He has extensive experience in filming informative and emotive documentaries and is therefore used to the discretion and sensitivity required.
He is the cinematographer for the programme and will develop the visual film element of the workshops, video installation and documentaries with Hattie and expand his repertoire by working in a 3 art installation format.
Dr Tom Slater is the owner and creative director of Call & Response Studios Ltd, a spatial sound production studio that houses a dome of 35 loudspeakers that can immerse listeners by enabling artists and musicians to move sound through 360° space. It is from this unique creative production space that Tom works closely with artists, musicians, producers, architects and designers to develop spatial sound and music projects for; live performance, immersive audiovisual installations, XR and web-based spatial audio experiences.
Tom holds a PhD in spatial embodiment through audiovisual technology and he continues to apply this research to the creation of highly compelling and immersive sonic environments and musical experiences.
Insight Lighting was founded in 1989 initially emerging from art-school culture and the early rave scene. We create thought provoking and elegant visual experiences. We hold extensive knowledge across analogue and digital technologies, with over twenty years of applied experience. Our interests, expertise and inventory continue to evolve with developing technologies.
Insight Lighting is a sponsor of The Body’s Voice
Miranda Tufnell is a dance artist, writer and teacher in movement and imagination. She is also an Alexander teacher and cranio-sacral therapist. She has been showing her performance work in galleries and theatres across the UK and abroad since 1976, as well as developing pioneering arts and health work both within the NHS for a GP surgery in Cumbria and independently within the UK.
Her latest book When I Open My Eyes: Dance Health Imagination (2017) documents this work. With Chris Crickmay she co-authored two handbooks on sourcing creative work entitled Body Space Image (1990) and A Widening Field (2004). Now based in Northumberland she continues to teach independently, mentor and make performance.
Des is a former journalist for The Times of London and a producer/director for the BBC, ITV and Ch4. He is a composer and musician and founded the Young Directors Film School. He has just published his first novel, Dead & Talking.
He will advise on how to most effectively include the educational filmmaking element into the programme as the Body Talks participants will be shown a variety of ways to experiment and film themselves dancing in the workshops and present these films to each other as a way of communicating with remote participants.
Nicolette Wilson-Clarke is the founder of The Creative Genius - a psychotherapy, coaching, facilitation and consultancy agency specialising in supporting the emotional and mental well-being of creatives.
As a Fellow member of the Accredited Counsellors, Coaches, Psychotherapists & Hypnotherapists (FACCPH), Nicolette is an accredited psychotherapist & coach, mental health advocate, well-being lecturer & facilitator, local radio broadcaster/producer, narrator/voice over artist/producer, blogger, podcaster, trained dancer, Senior Yoga Teacher (SYT) and experienced Pilates teacher. She is also an Advisory Board Member for Freedom Foundation who cultivate and enhance the emotional well-being of children and young people together with supporting creative producers on East London Dance’s pioneering Producer’s House programme (2022/23).
Nicolette is a London-based workshop facilitator for Dancer’s Career Development (DCD) who supports the career transitions of dancers and is passionate about positively shifting negative cultures surrounding mental health within the creative industry. She intends to be a disrupter and a conduit for change, promoting inclusivity and acceptance for all.
Louise has an MA from the Royal College of Art and brings her production and business acumen to the programme.
She is an award-winning short-form video and film producer distributed by LUX, former founder and Creative Director of The Service Communications Cooperative Ltd, and LUMEN nominated artist. Louise is working with Hattie to develop all aspects of the programme, build resilient partnerships and produce new and exciting nonverbal movement opportunities.
