Claire Elizabeth Barratt / CillaVee

  I am a transformer – I transform I metamorphosize, I change, I transcend, I disappear, I become I perform I am raw material The Self: body and psyche. My Self: as medium for art Art as Life / Life as Art Living Art I am in relationship (It’s complicated) With space, time, light, sound, colour, texture, form, concept, entity With complexity (It’s simple) I alter the environment and the environment alters me I improvize, I compose, I plan, I build, I destroy, I re-build, I release, I let be I explore, I discover, I create I am created I am firmly rooted in the foundations of classical western tradition From which there is no escape But, given time, nature will re-wild any man-made structure Pushing tendrils through its windowpanes, weathering its pristine towers and Reclaiming the architecture for its own set of aesthetics My work is interdisciplinary, often collaborative, usually improvization-based. It utilizes any mediums that can be incor

    Claire Elizabeth Barratt (artist moniker CillaVee) is a British interdisciplinary performing artist based in the USA. She is the director of international arts organization Cilla Vee Life Arts, established Bronx NY 2002, and has run The Center for Connection + Collaboration from her home in Asheville, NC since 2020. She has received a number of awards, including project sponsorship from JP Morgan Chase, NYSCA and the NEA. She served an apprenticeship with the Isadora Duncan Dance Foundation and holds an MFA in Creative Practice from the Transart Institute for Creative Research with Plymouth University where she developed the Living Art performance pedagogy. She was a Co-Founder and Director for Circle Modern Dance and a Choreographer for the Knoxville Opera Company in Tennessee and performed as a dancer with Asheville Contemporary Dance Theater and for Unto These Hills outdoor drama on the Cherokee Indian reservation in North Carolina. Claire has presented work th

  Claire Elizabeth Barratt   Interdisciplinary Arts – Performance / Pedagogy – dance, music, theater, visual arts artist moniker – CillaVee     65 Coleman Avenue, Asheville, NC 28801 cillaveelifearts @ gmail.com (828) 505 0950     METHODOLOGIES   LIVING ART: Body Tuning, Creative Response, Motion Sculpture, The Sound of Movement     EXECUTIVE   Since 2002 Founder and Director of Cilla Vee Life Arts, Bronx NY / Asheville NC Since 2020 Founder and Director of the Center for Connection + Collaboration, Asheville NC 1991-1999 Co Founding Director of Circle Modern Dance, Knoxville TN     AWARDS   2020 National Endowment for the Arts / New York State Council on the Arts – Enliven NYC through Chashama 2006/2008 MetLife – Creative Connections through Meet The Composer 2004 JP Morgan Chase / Bronx Council on the Arts – Arts in Education through the Isadora Duncan Dance Foundation     EDUCATION