Paula Crutchlow

After graduating in dance from De Montfort University Paula has worked in Britain and internationally as a performer, director and tutor of movement and devised theatre. She spent 5 years in New Zealand where she directed new writing work and was the Artistic Director of award winning performance company All and Sundry. Whilst living in Wellington she was a core member of Pantheatre Poneke’s devising lab experimenting with choreographic and voice interaction with light, received project funding from Creative New Zealand to instigate and deliver Dance Platform a 3 year choreographic training programme for emerging choreographers, and toured New Zealand with Te Torino a bi-lingual (Maori/English) storytelling group. In 2000 Paula completed an MA in Devised Theatre at Dartington College of Arts where she was an Associate Lecturer in Theatre until their relocation to Falmouth in 2010. Paula works as collaborating director and artistic adviser for new performance work across theatre, dance and storytelling. She is a co-founder and director of Blind Ditch.

(Source: Blind Ditch).