lucy tyler

lucy has a background in new writing, having worked as a playwright and reader in a number of theatre literary departments. Her performance practice expanded until she was co-creating with diverse companies in the UK, Europe, the USA, and Brazil. Originally working as a playwright, dramaturg and deviser, lucy’s movement dramaturgy has evolved around her retraining as a Somatic Movement Educator (with the School of Body-Mind Centering). As theatre-maker, Lucy has an experimental practice that involves somatic movement enquiry, text based writing, video and and installation. She uses improvisational processes to explore how the present and futures of landscapes, spaces and places are intertwined with the material practices and ephemera of us. She devises and writes mobile and sited performances, exploring the relationality of ecologies. In her recent work, Lucy is interested in how commodities, capitalist excess, surveillance, and pollution interact with bodies and places. Her practice explores alternative futures to historical material logics. She works in poetry, scores, scripts, prose, photography and body-based/somatic experimentation. A key theme in Lucy’s practice now is the possibility of a ‘maternal ecosomatics’ that operates against economic imperatives. She collaborates with other artists in devising performance methods, improvising scores, and writing texts, and audio-visual material.