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Polly Hudson
Dr Polly Hudson is a teacher, artist, gardener, writer and dancer. Her practice engages with process within artistic making, ethical embodied approaches to teaching and leadership and EcoSomatics. She is a reader in dance at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, Birmingham City University. As a certified teacher of Skinner Releasing Technique (SRT), the principles of this underpin her approach to teaching, making art and daily activities. She has created performance and screendance works that have been shown internationally across four continents and to critical acclaim. As an artist-scholar, the unifying focus of her work is embodiment: how do we inhabit our psycho-physical selves in ways that serve optimally in any given situation, whether that be as teachers, leaders, artist-makers, gardeners or performers? She has made work and has published widely on creativity, on SRT and on EcoSomatics, which she defines as being of the body-mind-ecology. She is curious about at what point a practice or an activity becomes art, as well as being interested in what is beyond and underneath the current discourses on ‘well-being’. Her work is characterized by the concept and practice of inhabiting our inner and outer landscapes simultaneously.
Contact: Birmingham City University, 15 Bartholomew Row, B5 5JU, UK.
