Scott Thurston will be delivering his inaugural professorial lecture entitled ‘Kinepoetics: an embodied journey through dance, poetry and therapy’ on Tuesday 19 March at 5:30pm at the University of Salford’s MediaCityUK campus in the Digital Performance Lab.
The lecture is described as follows:
With the worldwide challenge of mental health at an all-time high, we urgently need to find new solutions. There has been considerable interest in the relationship between creativity and health for some time, but now there is a move to integrate artistic approaches into mainstream care systems. This lecture traces the journey of Scott’s development as a poet moving into the dance world, and how this provided the key to co-developing a new form of creative arts psychotherapy. Through reflecting on his encounters with poetry and dance in London, New York, Berlin and Salford, Scott will show how his practice revealed to him the continuities between art and therapy that now inform his work as a newly-qualified counsellor, and how this approach may help us to heal and grow.
Please use this link to register for in-person or online attendance — both modes are free and everyone is welcome!