Developing Storytelling with Weaving, Sensors, and Puppetry

SEPT 2025

A new phase of development for Theatredu1k , supported by Arts Council England's Developing Your Creative Practice grant, expanding on the methods I developed during my PhD, Storytelling with Material Interferences. This work moves from research-based inquiry into embodied experimentation, where materials become collaborators in shaping presence, narrative, and response.

Over the coming months, I will work with natural and smart fibres that reversibly change colour or shape in response to their environment. I am interested in how these material behaviours can create conditions for puppetry that is not imposed or pre-scripted, but responsive to context, place, and proximity.

The first stage begins with a one-month residency at Freeweaver Saori Studio, where I will train in improvisational weaving using ecological fibres. These woven structures will be developed as performance elements that shift with weather, audience presence, and light.

This section will evolve alongside the project. I will share reflections, images, tests, and thoughts on how materials listen, remember, and move—and how puppetry can emerge from that conversation.