MEDIA
Making Moves is Claire Schrader’s 21st century tool to unleash our trapped and suppressed power. Using voice, movement, drama, music, and expressing through ritual theatre and quiet time, her pioneering work is now in its fifteenth year with hundreds of success stories.
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She invented the term “gifted introvert”, to describe an unrecognised talent force, helping introverts to flourish in an extraverted world.
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RITUAL THEATRE BOOK
The Rebirth of Ritual Theatre as a Potent Healing Force
‘Claire Schrader’s new book on the healing aspects of ritual theatre fulfills Joseph Campbell’s vision of a remythologized world, one in which we would be, as he loved to quote Cezanne, more “in accord with nature.” This book is alternately informative, exhilarating, scholarly, and soulful. If widely read, its insights into the psychodynamics of drama will help illuminate the sacred in our personal and collective lives.’
- Phil Cousineau, author of The Hero’s Journey: Joseph Campbell on his Life and Work, Wordcatcher, and The Art of Pilgrimage
Ritual Theatre: The Power of Dramatic Ritual in Personal Development Groups and Clinical Practice Link to the book and Google Preview.
An Interview with Claire Schrader on the JKP blog on what ritual theatre has meant to her personally, and why modern society may need this ancient practice now more than ever.
MAGAZINE ARTICLES (include)
Freeing the Firebird – freeing the creative spirit through drama
(Kindred Spirit March 2006)
Marrying Theatre through Personal Transformation
The healing power of drama and the beneficial effect of drama on emotional and physical health and well-being.
(Positive Health Magazine March 2005)
PRESS
Camden Times 1999
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LIFE STORY PROJECT 2000
Transformational theatre project for unemployed young people supported by Arts for Everyone Lottery Scheme.
Life Story was a unique theatre project which enabled unwaged people to transform an aspect of their “life story” into a piece of theatre. The project was an oportunity for unemployed people to use the power of theatre to inspire, uplift and transform the mundanity of life experiences into artistic expression.
Employment agencies may wonder what making theatre has to do with getting people back to work. If being employed isn’t bad enough, what if something difficult happened to you that has blocked you from moving forward in your life, what if you know you’ve got talent but can’t see a way of developing it.
Life Story enabled a group of young people overcome such hurdles – one was a comic rendition of a near suicide experience, another a young woman’s triumph over being bullied that lead to mental health issues.
The project was an opportunity for these young people to expose their vulnerabilities and initiate a pathway for change.
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PLAYWRIGHT
CORRYVRECKAN, produced at Old Red Lion Theatre 1990 directed by Janine Wunsche
Shortlisted for BEST PLAY (Claire Schrader) at Charrington Fringe Theatre Awards 1991, Julia Tarnoky won BEST ACTRESS, also nominated for BEST DIRECTOR (Janine Wunsche) and BEST SOUND DESIGN (Evelyn Ficarra and Francesca Hanley).
Awarded Royalty Supplement Grant by Arts Council in 1991
The Gathering Of Birds produced by Wise Part Productions, Edinburgh Fringe Theatre 2000
ALTERNATIVE CABARET
“La Dame de Flamme, the fire-eating ballerina” 1984-87
SHE MAGAZINE (2 pages spread)
Feature by Tim Rostron, Photographs by David Gamble
Woman’s World Magazine
Feature by Ruby Millington
Claire Schrader is director of Making Moves, a personal development company offering workshops and programmes since 1997.
She is editor of Ritual Theatre: the power of dramatic ritual in personal development groups and clinical practice (Jessica Kingsley) published in November 2011 and has contributed to Emotions: Experiences in Existential Psychotherapy and Life by Freddie Strasser (Duckworth).
More detail about her training, qualifications and background.
