Chris Crickmay
Chris Crickmay originally trained as an architect, but moved early in his career into art and art education and subsequently into collaborative performance work linking art and dance. He is now an independent installation artist, performer, writer, and teacher with particular interests in creating interactive environments for performance and in improvised movement work. He has spent a large part of his career in art education, including 13 years as Head of Art and Design at Dartington College of Arts (1976-1991), developing the degree course in Art and Social Context. He was awarded an honorary fellowship by the College in 2001. Besides the years at Dartington, he taught at the Open University (1970-78) where he helped to create the course Art and Environment, a practical arts course for home study. He also taught at the University of the West of England (1992-2001). With Miranda Tufnell he has also run many workshops over the years combining art, movement, and writing. Along side his teaching career, he has continued to create his own work and to write books and articles. He is the co-author with Miranda Tufnell of two books entitled: Body Space Image, notes towards improvisation and performance, Dance Books, 1990; and A Widening Field, journeys in body and imagination, Dance Books, 2004.
	In both his teaching and writing he has been curious about the role of the imagination in everyday life – and how creative work in the arts can both draw upon and influence everyday experience. The interweaving of different art forms into a single practice and the role of the body and sensory experience in stimulating the imagination have all been part of this enquiry. The purpose has been to been to open up approaches to making things in the arts that are both deeply engaging and satisfying. In his performance work he has collaborated with various dancers, including early work with Mary Fulkerson in the 1980s. Over the last 12 years or so he has been involved in an ongoing series of improvised mixed media performances with Eva Karczag and Sylvia Hallett entitled ‘Promenade’. The early stages of this collaboration were written up in both Contact Quarterly (Summer/Fall 2003) and in the Australian Journal, Writings on Dance (2004). In recent years he has also collaborated in separate dance and installation performance works with Miranda Tufnell, Sarah Shorten, Alice Tatge and Ellen Kilsgaard.

Chris Crickmay

Chris Crickmay originally trained as an architect, but moved early in his career into art and art education and subsequently into collaborative performance work linking art and dance. He is now an independent installation artist, performer, writer, and teacher with particular interests in creating interactive environments for performance and in improvised movement work.

He has spent a large part of his career in art education, including 13 years as Head of Art and Design at Dartington College of Arts (1976-1991), developing the degree course in Art and Social Context. He was awarded an honorary fellowship by the College in 2001. Besides the years at Dartington, he taught at the Open University (1970-78) where he helped to create the course Art and Environment, a practical arts course for home study. He also taught at the University of the West of England (1992-2001).

With Miranda Tufnell he has also run many workshops over the years combining art, movement, and writing.
Along side his teaching career, he has continued to create his own work and to write books and articles.
He is the co-author with Miranda Tufnell of two books entitled: Body Space Image, notes towards improvisation and performance, Dance Books, 1990; and A Widening Field, journeys in body and imagination, Dance Books, 2004.

In both his teaching and writing he has been curious about the role of the imagination in everyday life – and how creative work in the arts can both draw upon and influence everyday experience. The interweaving of different art forms into a single practice and the role of the body and sensory experience in stimulating the imagination have all been part of this enquiry. The purpose has been to been to open up approaches to making things in the arts that are both deeply engaging and satisfying.

In his performance work he has collaborated with various dancers, including early work with Mary Fulkerson in the 1980s. Over the last 12 years or so he has been involved in an ongoing series of improvised mixed media performances with Eva Karczag and Sylvia Hallett entitled ‘Promenade’. The early stages of this collaboration were written up in both Contact Quarterly (Summer/Fall 2003) and in the Australian Journal, Writings on Dance (2004).
In recent years he has also collaborated in separate dance and installation performance works with Miranda Tufnell, Sarah Shorten, Alice Tatge and Ellen Kilsgaard.