Hunter Heartbeat Method
The Hunter Heartbeat Method is a series of sensory drama games, which allow autistic individuals to share how it feels to be alive and celebrate their identity. Autistic individuals have created this award-winning methodology across the world, working with Artistic Director Kelly Hunter over the last twenty years.
To find out more about the Method and Kelly’s work: CLICK HERE.
Filmed during the first wave of the pandemic in 2020, Kelly describes the “Conversation of the Body “and the “Choreography of Emotion” that underpins the Hunter Heartbeat games. The second half of the film is from our 2019community project with autistic children from Queensmsill School and their families at the Bush Theatre, London.
Shakespeare and the brain
Shakespeare’s Heartbeat
Drama games for children with autism
For more information about the Hunter Heartbeat Method, read Shakespeare’s Heartbeat, drama games for autistic individuals written by Kelly Hunter. Published in 2014 by Routledge
“For me – working in a special school – there is so much material here that is of huge benefit to children who struggle with social interaction. This should be on the shelf of every SEN teacher as there are activities here that would work on many levels for children both verbal and non-verbal, ASD or not.”
Lucy Ellen Rix, Drama Teacher