Supporting and facilitating ways for people to develop voice, embodied awareness, and creativity, including through the Be SpecACTive! EU commissioned project ‘YES Move. NO Move. (Moved?)’ collaborating with activists, people seeking asylum, people ‘erased’ during Slovenia’s independence, migrant workers and Roma artists and youth across multiple EU countries, and Creating and Directing the interactive and facilitated performance and participation project  'The Body of Us' (presented to date at Dance: Sampled 2017 and 2018 at The Lowry, for The Movement a Sadlers Wells, Birmingham Hippodrome and The Lowry partnership, Supercell Festival of Contemporary Dance, UDance North West and University of Salford's 'Watch Us Dance').

Facilitating training, learning, and development through classes, workshops, masterclasses, and mentoring. This includes children and young people, tertiary education students (undergraduate and postgraduate), adults who move for recreation, health, connection, and expression, and emerging and established artists. Teaching and facilitation examples include; The Lowry Centre for Advanced Training, The Aboriginal Centre for Performing Arts, Bangarra Dance Theatre, Roehampton University, The Place Summer House, University of Salford, University of Central Lancashire, HWY Festival La Boite Theatre Company, Dancenorth Australia and more.

In addition to my independent work, I have a creative research and performance portfolio that includes working with/ for, Joseph Lau, imitating the dog, Buzz Dance Theatre (performing and touring works of Paige Gordon, Felicity Bott, and Carol Wellman Kelly), 'Accented Body' in Brisbane International Festival (Choreographers Cheryl Stock, Helen Sky, and Sarah Rubidge), Tarcisio Teatini-Climaco, Wendy Wallace, Louise Deleur and Rosetta Cook.

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Background & Training

I was born and grew up on farms and in small towns in rural Northern, Victoria, Australia. Places that are on the ancestral lands of the Dja Dja Wurrung People  and Yorta Yorta People.

After training with Jacqueline Kornmann and Susan Eacott, being given opportunities to take on creative and teaching leadership roles in my community and many trips to Melbourne (Naarm) to extend my skills, I boarded a Greyhound bus in early 1997 and traveled the 24 hours to Brisbane (Meeanjin). Here I completed a Bachelor of Arts (Dance) at Queensland University of Technology. 

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In 2001 I returned to full-time studies and completed a Bachelor of Arts (Honours). During this post-graduate year, I completed the practice-as-research project and thesis ‘Going Solo At The Disco: one woman’s reflections on being the solo performer in varied choreographic processes’. Through this process, I worked with Nik Hills on the solo ‘Holding The Baby’, Cath Childs on the solo ‘For Lease’, and created the solo ‘In Blood’.

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Across my career, I have also completed the following courses and qualifications: 'Core Skills in Coaching for Advisors Mentors, and Teachers' with Guildhall. Arts Awards (Explore, Bronze, and Silver Advisor), First Aid (one-day and three-day courses), Behaviour Management training, and Safeguarding training.