Scarlett's movementworkshops provide participants with embodied knowledge of a key type of creativity based on exploration conducted through the body rather than the brain. The sessions enable participants to connect to their body as a tool for knowledge, authenticity, creation, and problem-solving, using a physical and improvisational framework influenced by various somatic practices. Participants acquire research and devising strategies that can be further applied to their work - with materials, lighting, sound or video, for example.
This approach is relevant and beneficial to all creative and somatic practitioners, artists and musicians. Scarlett's unique methodology was developed over 10 years, and can be adapted to various groups and formats, from an intensive few days or week, to a short course.
Examples include Speculative Materials research for MA Scenography at Royal Central School of Speech & Drama, and Embodied movement workshops for Leo Cosendai's sound healing teacher training.
Scarlett works closely every year with the MA Scenography programme atRoyal Central School of Speech and Drama since 2014. Her intensive embodied practice & movement research workshops help the designers acquire practical skills in real scale creative development that they can subsequently utilize when working with performers.
"Scarlett Perdereau has been a formidable collaborator in her continuous willingness to keep developing these workshops over the years based on changing material conditions as well as feedback from students and staff. These movementworkshops are central to the course's ethos and learning experience as they remain a profound influence on the students' practice throughout the rest of the course and in their professional career thereafter." - Dr Simon Donger, Lecturer and Course Leader MA/MFA Scenography, Royal Central School of Speech & Drama