Clare Luiten grew up running wild in the Far North of Aotearoa before training as a ballet and contemporary dancer. This mix of outdoors and focused awareness continues to weave their influences in Clare's current practices, centering on bodywork (Craniosacral therapy and Somatic Integration), and Contact Improvisation. She consciously embeds these practices into her parenting to enable her to remain resilient, and most of the time playful. Clare is influenced by her family, the outdoors, her therapeutic work, and movement practices, creating a spiraling and supportive rhythm of rest, activity, community and solo time.
She is a member of the Dirty Laundry Collective.
Dirty Laundry is a collective of artists and writers whose exhibition at Toi Pōneke explored invisible labour in the home. Here, they use images and words to stitch together a 'crazy quilt' about how they collaborate and carve space for creativity in their busy lives.