Letting Go and Coming Home with Emilyn Claid
In this episode I talk to choreographer, performer, director and psychotherapist Emilyn Claid on the eve of one her final performances of her recent solo work 'Untitled' which she developed in collaboration with choreographers Heidi Rustgaard and Florence Peake around the theme of transformation. We talk about Emilyns role in UK dance history, about what letting go means in the context of dance and life, queerness from her perspective and how returning to performing after 22 years has felt like a homecoming. Emilyn's book 'falling through dance and life' is a point of reference during this discussion for the physical and emotional work around 'falling' - my dance geek dream - and we touch on how death being the only trajectory brings a new sense of fullness to what she is doing.