Eleanor Buchan

Eleanor Buchan is a storyteller who has created, performed and taught in over 29 countries. She works across festival, arts, education, academic and corporate settings, delivering projects that encourage us to interweave the mythic world with our own. With a healthy mix of the irreverent and the epic, she is dedicated to storytelling as a form of activism, and her work focuses on place, animism and rites of passage.

She is Co-Artistic Director of Eden’s Cave, an experimental arts company, as well as co-founder of The Shadow Travellers, exploring collective story dreaming. She has extensive experience as an ensemble site-specific performer, has worked with Dante or Die, 1927, The Curiosity Cabaret and Lucy Kirkwood. She is an Associate Artist for The Heroine Project Presents and worked for five years as a Lead Facilitator at The ASHA Centre, spearheading projects for Erasmus+ on rites of passage practice and intercultural storytelling. She has delivered workshops for the RCA, RCSSD, Theatre Royal Winchester, Theatre Royal Plymouth, Theatre Studio London, University of Santa Barbara, Festival of Hong Kong, Beijing Opera House among others, and for the British Council in China, Georgia, Israel, Jordan, Spain and Ukraine.
 
She is partnered to a fellow creative and is the mother to two young children, whose arrival has radically altered her perspective and her practice. She lives in the Forest of Dean.

What I want to achieve through mentoring:
 

I hope to achieve develop a radically adaptive practice for a new time in my life. After a rough transition into motherhood and a great deal of change, I need to work out how to be a storyteller from where I now find myself, rooted in the voices of motherhood, village,
forest and place - how to work alone, how to focus with a frayed attention span, how to be interruptible, how to create with very scarce resources. This feels like ground zero for my practice and my work. I’m hoping this incredible opportunity provided by Adverse Camber can ease me out of the chaos and into fertile new territory. I’m so delighted to be offered a helping hand.
Eleanor Buchan