Welcome — I’m Luke Crookes
I create workshops, sound baths, and online sessions that help people arrive, explore, and express through sound, movement, and sensory creative practice.
My work is co-created with participants — responding to the space, the group, and what emerges in the moment. Rather than following a fixed script, sessions offer a gentle structure where sound, movement, and ideas can unfold in different ways for each person.
This approach does not mean the sessions are unplanned — in fact, the opposite is true. Each workshop is carefully prepared as an embodied container, designed to explore a particular essence, material, or idea.
Within this structure, participants are supported to arrive, sense, and express, allowing sound, movement, and interaction to emerge in a way that feels natural and accessible to them. The responsiveness of the session comes from this preparation — not from making things up on the spot, but from holding a space that is both intentional and open.
I work with schools, SEND settings, galleries, museums, and community organisations — designing experiences that bring spaces, stories, and environments to life in an embodied and accessible way.
I also collaborate with theatre makers, artists, dancers, and movement specialists, developing cross-disciplinary approaches that connect sound, body, and space.
Alongside this, I run sound baths — immersive sessions to rest, reset, and reconnect — and create online and studio-based work from my home space, extending these experiences beyond the room.
What People Say
“I could feel my creativity being tapped into. I loved working with you on the track, I thought the way you were so inclusive and encouraging with everyone was great, a rare skill!”
— A participant
“Thanks for an amazing project. It was inspiring, creative, educational, and most importantly FUN for the staff and the pupils.”
— Kerri Ovel, Deputy Head, Beatrice Tate Special School
“Brilliant work with children working with @luke_crookes – inspiring music practitioner – truly talented and genuinely searching for the innate power of creativity in young people.”
— Carran Waterfield, Theatre and Performance Maker
Featured Projects & Videos
Adhoc Community Dance on Zoom
“This project brought joy and sparked creativity after such a reduced life in lockdown.”
Sail Away
Cross-arts sensory activity for SEND children and families in lockdown.
Powsowdie
Reminiscence project for older people using food and music during lockdown.
Dissolve – SIRF 2019
“Beautiful” — Stella Hall | “Stunning” — Rachel Swanwick