Miranda Tufnell

Miranda Tufnell is a dance artist, writer and teacher in movement and imagination. She is also an Alexander teacher and cranio-sacral therapist. "I fell into dance over fifty years ago in a seeking to find my way - to discover for myself what felt real. My work has followed a passion to listen ever more deeply to the nature and mystery of the body, and to find a language for what is beneath words. Working creatively both in groups and one to one, the body a portal where myriad streams of movement flow and make visible deeper currents of being ; what John O’ Donohue calls ‘the under-earth of our visible life’.
For me there is little difference between my creative work and teaching as a dance artist or as a body therapist - working both independently and for many years part time within the NHS. To heal, to find more wholeness, is rarely a simple mechanical event or fixing of a part. I sense it as a bringing back, bringing together what may be lost or fragmented within us. Whether my hands listen to read the silent braille of the body, or whether the gestures of a dancer give expression to hidden stories, each a messaging across time and space helping us connect, communicate and find a belonging. Whatever our circumstances through the body to feel more richly present and coherent in our lives."

“We are as bees and our body is a honeycomb we make the body cell by cell we make it“ Rumi