Series 2, Episode 3: Ayse Tashkiran and Christina Fulcher

For episode three of the second series of the Discover Central Podcast, host Scott Bellamy sits down with Ayse Tashkiran, a Senior Lecturer and Central’s Co-Course Leader for the MA/ MFA Movement: Directing and Teaching course, to discuss movement direction and the array of work which is being undertaken to embed inclusive practice into Movement training. In particular, the implementation of multimodal approaches which support dyslexic, dyspraxic and neurodiverse students are discussed.  

They are joined by MFA Movement: Directing and Teaching alumna Christina Fulcher, whose work and research as a student on the course have carried over into her professional career as a movement director, choreographer, and teacher. Christina is also the co-founder of Inclusion Collective and was recently awarded the Ivor Guest Research Grant, together with fellow Central alumna Ruth Phillips, by the Society for Dance Research to continue drawing on her research of disability and neurodiversity.   

Central’s Students’ Union Disability and Dyslexia Officer Daniella Faircloth also features. 

More information on Ayse Tashkiran’s work can be found on her professional website, the website for the Movement Directors’ Association which Ayse leads with Diane Alison-Mitchell, and on the Central website. You can find out more about Christina Fulcher’s work on her professional website.

Visit the MA/ MFA Movement: Directing and Teaching course page for more information. You can also find out about Ayse’s colleagues and collaborators on the course, Co-Course Leader Vanessa Ewan and Senior Lecturer Debbie Green, both of whom were mentioned in this episode.Watch a special video about the MA/ MFA Movement: Directing and Teaching course on YouTube which features an interview with Ayse Tashkiran.  

**You can access a Dyslexia-friendly transcript of this episode**