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 or by visiting the website for Inclusion Collective. 

Visit the Central website to find out more about Central, including the details of the MA/ MFA Movement: Directing and Teaching Course.  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.

Follow this link to watch a special video about the MA/ MFA Movement: Directing and Teaching course which features an interview with Ayse Tashkiran.  

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

Discover Central is hosted by Scott Bellamy and produced and edited by Megan Hunter.  Main podcast image by Patrick Baldwin.  Ayse Tashkiran's photo is by Peter Simpkin.  Theme music "Emotive Technology" is by High Street Music and has been used with permission thanks to Premium Beats.  With thanks to colleagues and students at The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama.  

Discover Central's host, Scott Bellamy

Ayse Tashkiran

Christina Fulcher