Sam has created drawing, notation and sculptural form to spport movement motifs that encourage stimming. For instance, working with Danni Spooner remotely they sent drawings and hand-held sculptural forms, or ‘choreographic objects’ that encouraged somatic attunement.
Collaboration with neurodivergent dancers have been wide ranging including drawing for notation, animation and sculptural or choreographic objects including;
Danni Spooner
Jamal Sterrett
Aby Watson
Scarlett Turner
Sam has collaborated with neurodivergent artists to consider Drawing as Stimming, including:
Gerald Curtis
Neuk Collective
Sam is currently collaborating to capture neurodivergent bodies drawing, looking particularly at how dyspraxic and hypermobile people support their bodies when drawing - again to depathologize approaches to drawing that are exclusionary for neurodivergent people, do get in touch if you would like to support this project
For this work Sam collaborated with Aby Watson and Gerald Curtis who created short videos of their postures and answered some interview questions.
Top left and right Aby Watson drawing for neurodivergent movements of drawing research
Bottom left Gerald Curtis drawing for neurodivergent movements of drawing research