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4) You are now collaborating poetry, and her

with The Margot Fonteyn Ballet writing in general
Academy to create a particular every day and night

performance piece about Sylvia for a whole year and
Plath. Can you tell us more it struck me that

about this collaboration? there were so many
links that nobody
The collaboration with the had explored to the

Director of the Margot Fonteyn degree that these
Academy in the USA is a huge, important matters

major project in the early stages should have been
of collaboration to produce a explored. I read
choreographed ballet. This ballet everything there “The mind is either a

performance will be 30 - 45 mins was to read about disaster or a carefully
in length and based on my epic Sylvia Plath, her cultivated refined
master” C. Swan
poem/theory on the life and poetry and her
suicide of American poet, Sylvia husband Ted guiding me I felt
Plath! This epic is 18 stanzas in Hughes and his determined to find out

length with extensive substantial poetry and then set why so many people are in
notes. I am a qualified about writing about denial about the enormity

hypnotherapist and I utilise my my findings coupled of Ted Hughes’ behaviour
knowledge and experience with with Sylvia’s and unethical use of
my accomplished background and presence – it was hypnosis on Sylvia when

professional life to cultivate my what I found she was clearly in a very
poetry and writing in general. It’s reading in between fragile and disturbed

like I am collaborating with many the lines and the mental, emotional and
different parts of myself as well as questions and psychological state, she
others. My work is sometimes answers that should was also falling into what I

described as visceral, astute, have been more consider to be an
eloquent and erudite. closely explored and overwhelming psychosis

I often examine darker and taboo understood that and was suffering from
societal subject-matter in my took me on a very postnatal depression,
work that many shy away from long journey closely these factors were

and bring them to life on a guided by Sylvia undoubtedly a truly lethal
creative centre stage to enlighten herself. I visited cocktail and her husband

audiences. This epic is no Sylvia’s grave and was the bar tender who
exception. I am also spiritual that was a very shook and served her the
medium and clairvoyant. I intense experience! poison to destroy her soul

researched Sylvia Plath’s life, As Sylvia was based on the darker