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Photo: Dorinda Hulton with Sarah-Jane Harker
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Dorinda has contributed for thirty-seven years to the teaching of undergraduates at Exeter. She also taught and co-convened the MA in Theatre Practice programme at Exeter, for nine years. Her research and her practice are closely aligned and the following three areas have contributed directly to her teaching over these periods:
- The first is an inquiry into the methodology appropriate to a University Drama Department for facilitating connections between theories and practices within different of areas of study. She explored this inquiry for over twenty years in a course entitled Actors’ Resources that ran alongside projects investigating different areas of study.
- The second is an inquiry into the theory and practice of movement and voice training for the actor. In relation to this area, Dorinda has studied Yoga in India (BKS Iyengar Institute, Poona); Shinto training exercises in Japan (Ishikira-Jinja, Osaka); voice training in France (in the Roy Hart method); and a study of Indonesian movement with Suprapto Suryodarmo.
- Her third research area has been an inquiry into the creative processes that facilitate innovative theatre making, and it is this aspect of her work that informs her current teaching of Creative Actor, a Level Three Module, also open to students at MFA Level.
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