Welcome

This site shares what I am currently working on and gathers together 22 years of experiences and creative projects.

From an indepth and rigorous foundation in Choreography, Dance and Movement, my responsive practices and work expands to working in and with Theatre, Film, Digital Technologies, Writing, Visual Design & Arts and Music. 

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As a multi-faceted Artist and Creative I work as a:

Director, Choreographic Director, Movement Director, Performer, Collaborator, Curator and Producer, Facilitator and Teacher, Rehearsal Director and Coach and Mentor.

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As an international artist, and via my dual identity as both an Australian and British citizen, I aim to make meaningful contributions to both countries. I also aim to contribute wider internationally via partnership building and collaborations with artists, communities, change-makers, producers, curators, advocates and organisations.

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I acknowledge the Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the Traditional Custodians of country throughout Australia and their connections to land, sea and community. I pay my respect to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures; and to Elders past and present

Portfolio examples

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Creating and touring around the world, urgent and award-winning productions with Belarus Free Theatre and its Directors Natalia Kaliada and Nicolai Khalezin as Choreographic, Movement, and Rehearsal Director. This includes 'Burning Doors' (listed in the New York Times 'Best Theatre of 2017' and Winner 'Best Ensemble' Off West End Awards), 'Trash Cuisine' (Winner 2013 Impacto Total Award), 'Red Forest', 'Counting Sheep: Staging A Revolution' (Vault Festival London 2019 headline production), 'London Eyes' (a Young Vic parallel production) and 'Trustees' (Melbourne International Festival and Malthouse).

Creating works for festivals and galleries. This has included works for: national and international outdoor dance and street arts festivals, hundreds of community performers as part of a major sports stadium performances, The BBC Philharmonic Orchestra and The Queensland Orchestra, and projects such as 'Stellarium' a major youth performance project for Manchester European City of Science in collaboration with leading British Astrophysicists.

Co-Creating and Co-Producing the participatory radio play 'An Absurdist Archive of Isolation: a full body workout radio play' as part of 'They Gather'. The various works in the multi-modal project 'They Gather' have been presented by The Lowry (UK), The Place and Chisenhale Dance's festival 'How Do We Tune Into Sensation'(UK), Rewire (NL), Modern Body Laboratory (NL), and Supercell Festival of Contemporary Dance (AUS).

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Director and Movement Director on the research and development of UK writer Keisha Thompson’s new play ‘The Bell Curves' (September to November 2021). https://keishathompson.com/bio/

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Creating moving-image and interactive digital works for the screen, online, and public spaces (e.g. Illuminating York). Recent projects include working and collaborating with Ukrainian Film Artist and Director Roman Liubyi on the hybrid documentary 'Iron Butterflies' and the moving image project 'The Correspondents' (Produced by Babylon'13 and Project Auske. Supported by the European Union under the House of Europe).

Curating and producing choreographic laboratories such as Manchester Choreolab 2017.

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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 designing the facilitated performance  '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').

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Facilitating training, learning, and development through classes, workshops, masterclasses and coaching 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.

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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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Working in collaboration with Wahab Shah (Pakistan) as Co-Artistic Director of ‘On The Hour: Dance Kahanyan’ supported through The British Council’s ’New Perspectives’ project. ‘On The Hour: Dance Kahanyan’ interrogates the function of dance in contemporary urban and rural society. It explores culture, practice, and modes of co-creating new narratives with artists, young people, and women’s/girls/female-identifying community groups in Pakistan and the UK. This is done through live dance, films and documentaries shared in live-streamed performances and online.  The project is being delivered by Wahab Shah Dance Company in Pakistan and Inspirate in the UK. https://www.britishcouncil.pk/new-perspectives

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Please explore my Portfolio to find out more about my experiences and work.

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Click here to find out more about my Current and Recent Projects.

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Click here to find out more about my Independent Projects.