Practice

Theo Clinkard is a Devon-based dance artist with a practice that centres a dialogue between choreography and design.

 

From installations in non-conventional spaces, work for end-on theatres, dance in galleries and museums to moving outdoors, his work responds to a wide range of contexts, spaces and conversations.

 

Oscillating between design led and movement led approaches, he is driven by close observations that invite us to consider the act of looking and the position from which we see the world.

 

Theo champions the live experience and the capacity for the moving body to communicate in ways that are unique and singular. Whilst the work itself takes many forms, he is perpetually interested in gathering people from all walks of life around movement in a way that honours the subjective experience in a collective environment.

 

By working from the senses, crafting the performer and audiences attention, developing how we perceive ourselves in action and actively transforming how we are read by others, Theo is drawn to create memorable work that enables us to see ourselves anew, deepen our sense of empathy and stay with us long after we have left the performance space.

 

Increasingly, Theo is working in rural queer contexts, platforming this experience though co-conceiving BENTWOOD a queer-led mini folk fest in Ashburton he runs with his boyfriend Fionn Cox-Davies, co-developing Rural Pride near Dartington and co-curating HARK, Totnes Pride’s main music night at St. Marks Church in Totnes.