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So, I went one eyed to a fabulous party. I said to the face paint artist ‘no flowers please’. I didn’t mention the two eye surgeries. She took one look at me. She painted this. by @emilynclaid

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Eclipse
I’ve been quiet for a while. My summer has been a bit of a catastrophe. While I was collaborating with #frithajenkins at The Place, during our Choreodrome residency, , the retina in my left eye detached. It was the day of the eclipse.
As a retina peels away, blackness /blindness creeps up like a moon until it moves across the iris, at which point you lose your sight. Waiting hours in A&E I watched my private eclipse happening.
Apparently, a retina must be reattached within three days, or sight can be lost permanently. I was lucky and 36 hours later I had emergency surgery at St Thomas Hospital. Then, unfortunately, my retina detached again, and I underwent a repeat of the entire surgical procedure two weeks later.
After the second surgery I was ordered to ‘posture’, so that the gas bubble, inserted into my eye, could do its work of fusing the retina into place. This meant lying on my right side, and only my right side, 24 hours a day for a week. Ten-minute breaks on the hour to do necessary tasks. I set the alarm for one hour, then for ten minutes, repeatedly, for 7 days, and I was committed and dedicated to this project. A challenging experience and enlightening in terms of how my body adjusted time and energy, to get through.
At the end of the week a dear friend drove me to Winchelsea Sands, and here I am posturing sideways on the beach. The following few images were taken from my sideways position at home.
My retina is now holding, and in four weeks the gas bubble will dissolve and I will hopefully have sight again in my left eye. Until then, I have bought some colourful eye patches …
I will be back in the world soon, love to all

Thankyou NHS and all the staff at St. Thomas’s eye department.#nhs by @emilynclaid

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Moving Presence
Movement for therapists
Led by emilyn claid PhD (choreography), MSc. (Gestalt) UKCP, UKAGP.

Booking:
https://futureritual.co.uk/moving-presence-movement-for-psychotherapists-(2026)

Open to therapists of all modalities and trainees in the final 2 years of training.
@psychotherapiesuk @futureritual
Dates: September 26th, October 10th, October 24th, November 7th, November 21st
Times: 10am -12.30pm

£200 for 5 sessions.
£50 per session.
Participants are invited to sign up for all sessions to gain the most from the practices.

These movement sessions are grounded in a somatic approach to being alive in the world, sensing, thinking, feeling and moving.

Over five sessions we work with movement scores based in Fundamental Developmental Movements; Letting go of Things; Relational Play and Moving to Music. Through the practice we gain deeper understanding of how to support ourselves to be present with otherness and creativity.

While care is given to emerging concerns, this is not a therapy group, nor is this dance therapy. These are movement sessions for participants, with time provided to discuss how their experience might impact on work with clients.

With an extensive background in dance, emilyn has spent 15 years interweaving choreography, performance and Gestalt psychotherapy. The sessions draw from these three fields of practice.

Wear comfortable clothing for movement that includes lying on the floor. Bare feet or socks.

‘What distinguishes emilyn’s practice is its foundation in a disciplined and sophisticated embodied philosophy. This depth of inquiry allowed us, as practitioners, to explore the edges of our own work and to reconsider how we listen, perceive, and respond, both creatively and therapeutically. The workshop operated not only as a learning experience but as a site of research, where artistic process and experiential knowledge were meaningfully integrated’. (Billy Desmond, Gestalt Institute Ireland)

www.emilynclaid.com by @emilynclaid

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2 months ago

Plagiarise plagiarise … as a source of creativity… continues in comments by @emilynclaid

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Does anyone in south London have an VHS player. Im looking to digitise an old vhs tape. Please message me. @frithajenkins by @emilynclaid

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3 months ago

Help us give a warm welcome to @emilynclaid, who joins us as a Somerset House Studios artist.

Immersed in live art and choreographic practices, emilyn claid works within intergenerational queer contexts, performing, collaborating, making performance.

Alongside this, she facilitates workshops, encouraging the raw uncertainty of relational performative presence that underlies her current interests in artistic practice. by @emilynclaid

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So while I was cruising last week in the studio with a wildly wonderful group of performers, my allotment grew this…. by @emilynclaid

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4 months ago

Dyke Just Do It at SW3G Glasgow.

Photos: Brian Hartley

Such a pleasure to work with Sweatmother @sweatmother again on Dyke Just Do It, performing alongside him and Mirabelle Haddon, @mirabellehaddon and working with Eve Stainton, @evestainton Alex MIsik, @makesmisick Sara Sassanelli, @sara.sassanelli Laura Fisher @criphipsugartits and all collaborators at SW3G. @swg3glasgow Wild raw performances, cool audiences. I enjoyed the gig, even though it included walking up and down 5 flights of stairs, dancing on cold concrete floors, no café at the venue, and spending hours on national rail. All good, and a privilege to be doing this in my 8th decade, cranking up the androgynous masc. desire in performance - life force. Music Planningtorock by @emilynclaid

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4 months ago

✔️ D¥KE JUST DO IT VOL 2 ✔️

Announcing here first for my close ones before it’s publicly announced via @gifestival

GLASGOW join me, emilyn claid and Mirabelle Haddon — for a live, expanded cinema performance reclaiming advertising’s linguistic codes through eroticism and embodied performance in a bespoke version of D¥KE JUST DO IT

Fri 5 Jun, 6pm
Sat 6 Jun, 1.30pm and 9pm
FREE TICKETS - LINK IN BIO

D¥kes encouraged but everyone is welcome to attend ❤️

Lead performer: Sweatmother
Co-performer: @emilynclaid
Co-performer (BSL): @mirabellehaddon

Movement director: @evestainton
Costume design: @hausofgugu
Sound artist: @jenniferwalton.co.uk

Producers: @makesmisick , Annie Hazelwood
Access coordinator: @criphipsugartits
Audience connector: Bea Webster
Technical direction and AV: Dav Bernard
Creative writing response: Nat Raha
Access support (Sweatmother): @sara.sassanelli

With thanks to @swg3glasgow

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D¥KE Just Do It (2023) was originally developed with: Amani, An(dre)a Spisto, Cris Volpe, Dylan McDonnell, emilyn claid, Eve Stainton, Eve Veglio-Hüner, Frank Belcourt, Guia Bertorello, Jennifer Walton, Jetsün Shenkyong-ma, Josie Long, Kamila Serkebaeva, KVL, Lola Trifunovic, Natasha Chubbuck, Phoebe Patey-Ferguson, Sey, Adelekun, Spirit Doll, starlows, Sweatmother

Film Producer: Kamila Serkebaeva

Photo: Dyke Just Do It, 2023, ICA with KVL and emilyn claid, Documentation by Anne Tetzlaff taken in SWG3 Studio Warehouse by @emilynclaid

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5 months ago

Photo 1 : Arne Hauge
Photo 2 : Fenia Kotsopoulou @feniakotsopoulou (hanging out in Venice)

I have been waiting, hibernating, while my body adjusts its relationship with my new ankle. They are still sussing each other out, and not entirely happy. However, life speeds on and I’ve gotta get back to work, out here in the world. I am so grateful to everybody who collaborates with me to make these events happen.

April 20-May 22nd : leading a 5 week module ‘Investigative Practice’, MA/MFA in Creative Practice, at Siobhan Davies Studios. With Kathy Krick
I teach two open classes as part of this module: May 20th & 21st, 10am-12 midday. All welcome. @_independentdance

June 4th – June 7th : performing with Sweatmother in ‘Dyke Just Do It’, at Glasgow International Festival, and leading a workshop at the Tramway. @sweatmother @gifestival

June 11th : I head north again to facilitate ‘Letting Go of Things’ a workshop at Northern School of Contemporary Dance. @northern_school

June15th-June 19th : leading a week-long ‘Cruising and Performance’ workshop, at Studio in Peckham, managed by Future Ritual and assisted by Zak Mennell @futureritual @studio.futureritual

July 8th-July 12th : leading another week-long ‘Cruising and Performance’ workshop at Studio in Peckham, managed by Future Ritual, assisted by Zack Mennell. @zackmennell
There may still be some places left on this one. Check on Future Ritual site.

July 20th – July 24th : Choreodrome residency, a week of research with transdisciplinary artist Fritha Jenkins. @frithajenkins A starting point for a year-long artistic project that’s about wrinkling time, and includes re-inventing archive materials in film, stories and movement, a series of salon-style performances, a reworking of The Trembling Forest and a load of workshops (ACE funding pending).
@theplacelondon
I have a chapter published called ‘HOMECOMING’ in Contemporary Choreography (2026), eds. Jo Buttterworth & Vicky Hunter London Routledge @jo.butterworth.75 @vickyhunter6 by @emilynclaid

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This was posted on someone’s Instagram and someone else sent it to me on WhatsApp. This is a snippet of me in 1997 or so playing with gender qualities across the androgynous arc in a piece called Did I Speak. Music Sylvia Hallet. Not sure what it’s got to do with punk or how it found itself on insta gram… thanks whoever found it …. by @emilynclaid

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8 months ago

Dates added! ROUND 2 - 8-12 July. Link in bio!

cruising and performance: power, pleasure, gender 🔥

Facilitated by emilyn claid, this 5 day intensive workshop looks at the physicalities of power, pleasure, seduction, ambiguity, cool, desire, femininity, masculinity and androgyny.

Rooted in @emilynclaid's extensive experience of choreography and performance, we'll explore cruising as relational presence and the performance of seduction.

This is for those who want to move and perform, who want to play with gender and experiment with embodied expressions of power and pleasure, and who embrace queerness as a practice.

Peckham (London), £300/£250. Tickets available now (link in bio) - registration deadline 1 May (but probably it will fill up before then!). Payment plans available.

Original images: emilyn claid and Heidi Rustgaard, SKINNED, Future Ritual x Venice International Performance Art Week 2024. Photos by (1) Lorenza Cini & (2) Fenia Kotsopoulou taken in Copeland Park & Bussey Building by @emilynclaid

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