Claire is a movement and visual artist, teacher, herbalist and anthropologist. She works with improvisation, un-stylised movement and eco-somatics, that is to say spontaneous nonverbal dialogue with the environment, both natural and urban. She has trained extensively with Suprapto Suryodarmo, the founder of Amerta movement, Sandra Reeve and Ruth Zaporah, the creator of Action Theatre. Her movement art practice is strongly rooted in her relationship with non-human beings such as plants, fungi and the ecology of a landscape. She regularly moves in Hackney Marshes where she has an art project in collaboration with filmmaker Dominique Rivoal who has been filming her moving throughout the changing seasons of this natural landscape in the heart of the city for the last six years. As a result of this collaboration they have built a four screens installation with 3D soundscape called 'We are plants, we are grass, we are Hackney Marshes' (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rp_BOAk4Xos). She is the author of How to be feral: movement practices to re-wild your body, published with Triarchy Press (https://www.triarchypress.net/feral.html). The workshops she teaches, the book she wrote and the installation she made in collaboration are all the fruits of her regular commitment to the common land of Hackney Marshes.

Specialism: Action Theatre, Amerta Movement, Deep Listening, Eco-Somatics, Environment/Conservation/Eco-Embodied/Horticulture, Foraging, Insight Herbalism, Intuitive Bodywork, Mindfulness, Painting/Drawing, Social Anthropology, Somatic, Visual Arts

Other website: www.claireloussouarn.com