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List of Contributors
Judit Biksz (Soharóza Nonprofit Association) is a Hungarian
psychologist and coach. She works with children and adults as well
focusing mainly on stress management and wellbeing. She has more
than 10 years experience working with children in different fields
as a ballet dance teacher, summer camp organiser and workshop
leader. As part of Soharóza she is both interested in performing and
spreading experimental choir singing and collective music creation.
Teresa Brayshaw (Leeds Beckett University) is a theatre artist,
researcher, creativity coach and Feldenkrais practitioner. She has
lectured extensively in the UK University and European Theatre
School sectors over the last 35 years. In addition to her ‘pure
practice’ as a Feldenkrais teacher, she applies her interests
in neuroplasticity and creativity to her teaching, writing and
professional theatre work. She co-edited Training Grounds in the
International Journal of Theatre Dance and Performance Training
(2010-2014) and two of Routledge’s best-selling Performance
Readers: The Twenty-First Century Performance Reader (2020) & The
Twentieth Century Performance Reader (2013). She is co-curator of
Cultural Conversations at the Sibiu International Festival of Theatre
Romania and has published three volumes of interviews. She is
currently collaborating on Project 10-11-12 with fellow Weaving
Voices artist Walli Höfinger, and a research project exploring Musical
Touch and Vicarious Perception with UK musician Catherine Laws.
Hannah Butterfield (Leeds Beckett University) is a facilitator,
theatre maker, performer and part-time Lecturer in Performing Arts
at Leeds School of Arts, Leeds Beckett University. Her PhD research
is rooted in Co-Creation to Cultivate a Culture of ‘Welcome’ for
People Seeking Sanctuary in the UK. She is currently a Speak Up
Artist for The National Theatre and Associate Director for Stand and
Be Counted Theatre: who became UK’s First Theatre Company of
Sanctuary in 2016. Their work campaigns for safer routes for people
seeking sanctuary and advocates for the rights of people who
have been displaced. She has recently been appointed Director of
Harmony Choir in Leeds, an integrated group of local people: many
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