Miranda Tufnell is a dancer, Alexander teacher and craniosacral therapist.
She has been showing performance work in galleries and theatres since 1976, often making site-specific events and collaborating with visual artists.
She has taught widely, including at Dartington College of Arts and at Fellside Alexander School. Her work both as a dancer/choreographer and body therapist has been to make visible the invisible world of the sensing body.
Miranda writes: "For many years I have been pursuing a profound interest in the body, environment and the language of movement. My work has followed a passion to listen more deeply to the body's subtleties of movement, and to explore the human need to find a language for what is beneath our words. For me there has never been one way, I have needed to explore between moving, writing, making, sound and visual imagery; between working with others in bodywork or movement and working as a performer - shifting between the poetry of metaphor and language, the sensuousness of making and materials and the feeling world of the body, to make visible the elusive multi-layered nature of our experience. My work has evolved through ongoing collaborations and research in performance and teaching alongside working as a body therapist/ movement educator (both independently and within the NHS)."
Shaun McNiff writes: "For over 50 years I have done my best to keep the arts in therapy domain focused on how art heals, now and throughout world history, and how we need to lead in making art medicine accessible to people everywhere. Professional practice with credentialed therapists is an important part of the whole but we must also support what artists can do in expanding art and public health, and especially when they make this a primary life purpose as modeled so completely by Miranda Tufnell who inspires the most inclusive participation in an integral community of art healing." Shaun McNiff, author of Art as Medicine: Creating a Therapy of the Imagination; Art Heals: How Creativity Cures the Soul; Imagination in Action: Secrets for Unleashing Creative Expression; and many other books."