As a dance movement pedagogue and psychotherapist she undertook extensive studies with Dr Janet Adler (Discipline of Authentic Movement) and has taught and supervised for many years. She is an Executive of the Association for Dance Movement Therapy (ADMT UK), and convened the 2005 E_motion in Motion international dance research conference together with the Gesellschaft für Tanzforschung and the University of Bern. As an eco-designer/entrepreneur Eila initiated the Dartington to Totnes Foot- and Cycle Path with Sustrans in 1996. She then founded the company Nutshell Natural Paints designing the range and pioneering its use in the UK (company sold in 2006). She collaborated in The Colour Directory (1999) and the ESPCR project Public Awareness of Pigments (2004). Her PhD research examines and conceptualises the ‘MoverWitness exchange’ (Goldhahn, 2007), a methodology derived from and re-conceptualising Authentic Movement. Eila promotes this practice as a transdisciplinary, embodied practice for the development of empathetic perception and consciousness. She has worked and developed her ideas with scientists at Schumacher College, Devon, UK, as well as with artists, psychotherapists and educators at Dartington College of Arts. Eila has taught and exhibited in Canada, Germany, Sweden and the UK. Images of her art work/projects can be seen on www.eilagoldhahn.de |
Eila Goldhahn is an interdisciplinary artist/researcher and trainer, using an embodied, improvisational and site specific method for the development of creativity and conscious reflection of self and other, observer and observed. She works artistically in different media including sculpture, eco design, film and performance.
