Claire is a Theatre, Dance and Circus Director, committed to achieving social justice. Claire founded Diverse City in 2005 and is the co-founder of Extraordinary Bodies, the UK’s leading professional integrated circus company.
Claire was a Clore Fellow in 2012 and writes for The Guardian online. She is the former head of Performing Arts at London Metropolitan University and was awarded an MBE in 2016 for services to inclusion in the Performing Arts. Together with Jamie Beddard, Claire won the Clore Duffield 50th Anniversary prize, which they used to tour Extraordinary Bodies across the UK and support 10 ‘Unexpected Leaders’ who have faced barriers to entering the industry.
(Alt text description of Claire's bio photo: A white woman, aged 49, with dyed blonde, bobbed hair, rosy complexion, and a pierced nose, smiling. Photo Credit: © Alexa Ledecky)
We set up Extraordinary Bodies in the flurry of optimism that followed the Olympics in the UK in 2012. We
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