Moving Words
A 3 hour online workshop
with
Writer Susan Richardson
and
Movement Director Sarah Perry
3 Hours
Saturday 31st May 2025
10-1pm
Online
Availability is limited to 12 attendees
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Writing
Are you a writer who’d like to find exciting new routes into your creative process, generate fresh ideas or develop a different perspective on an ongoing piece of work?
Are you a mover, someone who thinks with their body, expresses through movement, and wants to explore how physicality can inform and inspire your writing practice?
In this innovative workshop, you’ll explore how diverse ways of moving can inspire and shape your writing, by focusing on such aspects as rhythm, pace, stillness and sound. Thanks to the intimate group environment, with the session being open to a limited number of participants, you’ll have the opportunity to share whatever emerges and you’ll receive both nourishing feedback and helpful advice for developing it further.
Prose writers, poets and scriptwriters are all welcome as the techniques with which you’ll be experimenting can be applied to all genres.
Movement
This workshop offers a playful, embodied approach to writing. Through guided movement explorations and creative prompts, you'll discover how the body can unlock language, deepen storytelling and spark fresh ideas for movers and writers alike.
The workshop is appropriate for all writing and moving abilities as Sarah and Susan are both adept at tailoring their teaching to suit all levels, from absolute beginners to the very experienced. Bring your curiosity and a willingness to move and write.
Susan Richardson
Susan Richardson is a writer, performer and educator whose fourth collection of poetry, Words the Turtle Taught Me, emerged from her residency with the Marine Conservation Society and was shortlisted for the Ted Hughes Award.
Her most recent book, Where the Seals Sing (William Collins), is a work of creative nonfiction, blending natural history and travel, science and shamanism, memoir and myth. She has been writer-in-residence with the British Animal Studies Network, facilitated by the University of Strathclyde, and enjoyed a four-year stint as one of the poet-performers on Radio 4’s Saturday Live.
Susan is also an acclaimed and inspiring writing tutor, with over twenty years’ experience of devising and facilitating courses and workshops globally. She especially loves offering outdoor Writing the Wild workshops for such organsisations as WWF and the RSPB and has relished, too, the opportunity to work with writers with disabilities, asylum seekers and refugees.
As a lifelong hiker and a decades-long practitioner of both 5Rhythms and yoga, Susan loves exploring how different movement practices inspire and influence the process of writing.
Website: www.susanrichardsonwriter.co.uk
Instagram: @susan_richardson_writer
Bluesky: @susanrichardson.bsky.social
Sarah Perry
Sarah is a movement and performance director, working in Film, TV, Animation and Theatre and is also the founder and creative director of Shapes in Motion.
Recent credits include; Movement Coach on upcoming Film ‘The Salt Path’, released 2025. Movement Director and Performance Coach on ‘The Wizarding World of Harry Potter – Ministry of Magic’ for Universal Epic Universe, opening in May. Movement & Motion Capture Director for Award winning VR ‘In Pursuit of Repetitive Beats’ directed by Darren Emerson opening at The Barbican May-Aug 2025.
Other credits include: ‘The Burning Girls’ Paramount+/Buccaneer Media, ‘His Dark Materials’ season 3 for BBC/Bad Wolf. ‘A Discovery of Witches’ Season 2 & 3 for Bad Wolf/Sky One. ‘Dream’ a Live Motion Capture/Online Virtual Production for The Royal Shakespeare Company. ‘Jupiter Ascending’ directed by The Wachowskis, ‘Guardians of the Galaxy,’ directed by James Gunn and 'The chronicles of Narnia; Voyage of the Dawn Treader, directed by Michael Apted.
When not in rehearsals, on set or on location you’ll likely find Sarah on the Yoga mat. Her work as a yoga teacher since 2008 and a Yoga Therapist since 2013 brings her love and passion for Yoga and Movement to people from all walks of life and keeps her well-grounded amid a varied and busy professional life.
Website: sarahperrymovement.com
Yoga: Sarah Perry Yoga
Instagram:
@sarahperrymovement
@sarahperryyoga
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faq
What Do I need to bring to the session?
Writing materials, some space to move, water or a cuppa, an open mind and a smile.
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DO I NEED to have already attended a Shapes in motion event?
No, not at all. This event is open to all writers who are open to moving and movers who are open to writing. All levels welcome. We can't wait to meet and create with you all online.
CAN I ASK QUESTIONS THROUGHOUT THE SESSION?
There will be designated time and space for sharing, feedback and discussions.
WHICH PROGRAM WILL WE USE TO MEET VIRTUALLY?
Zoom. A zoom link and reminders will be sent out to you prior to the event
WILL I RECEIVE A RECORDING OF THE session? Can I get a refund if I cannot attend?
This session will not be recorded, so as to provide a safe space for attendees to move, write and play. Refunds are given, minus a £10 administration fee, if you withdraw your booking on or before the 21st of May 2025. No refunds after the 21st of May 2025.
HOW DO I BECOME A TROUPE MEMBER?
Details of who and how you can join as a Troupe member, to receive future discounts, can be read here.