SPACE
As a facilitator I seed and steer exploratory processes for artists to think through their practice. Focusing on ‘the how, the way, the why’ of making these have included: Space Time for Sanctuary Queer Arts with Magnetic North, Salves for Future Selves, Sit With Me and PUSH+ Home Lab with Imaginate; Being Enough with Arts Access Victoria and Unexpected Bodies in Unexpected Places and Skånes Dansteater for the European partnership project Beyond Access both with Caroline Bowditch; The Artist Support Weekender with PAL Labs, Claire Hicks and Roanne Dods.
Projects as a guest curator have included: Bodies of Knowledge | Choreographies of Care: On Crip Technique, knowledge and expertise as part of Claire Cunningham’s Crip | Choreo | Care programme and also The Choreography of Care at tanzhasu nrw; Phosphorescence with Lucy Cash at The Barn, The Talking Place for Fevered Sleep as part of Men & Girls Dance; What Next with Frank Bock for Independent Dance; A (Supper) Room Full of Words with Kat Bridge for Greenwich Dance and the In Dialogue series for Candoco Dance Company, where I was also formerly Head of Learning and Research.
I have also been a visiting lecturer /facilitator for under and postgraduate students, artists and professionals worldwide - including Central School of Speech and Drama, D.O.C.H Stockholm, HZT Berlin, Trinity Laban, London Contemporary Dance School, The Royal Academy of Dance - and an artist adviser to a range of choreographers, companies and institutions - including: AnnieVickySarah; Orrow Bell; Ania Nowak; Nigel Charnock; Shobana Jeyasingh Dance Company; Noemi Lakmaier; Catherine Long; Jardin D’Europe with Southbank Centre; Kate Marsh with Metal; Claricia Parinussa; Lucy Suggate; Athina Vahla and Wellcome Trust Arts Awards. From 2012-2016 I was Chair of the board for Chisenhale Dance Space, in 2018 a nominator for the Paul Hamlyn Breakthrough Awards, a Jerwood Artist Advisor and am currently a trustee of Siobhan Davies Dance Studios.
Often a companion in practice to other artists and arts organisations - as dramaturg/e, associate, host, facilitator, writer, researcher - I have worked at the intersections and in between places of where dance, choreography and contemporary performance might meet with other fields, forms, worlds for over twenty-years. With a particular focus upon ‘thinking through practice’ I accompany, and collaborate in, projects and processes that attend to alterity - with the hope of effecting embodied change in the ways people encounter, engage with and reconsider notions of death, dying and loss; crip and queer experience, identities and divergence; interdependence, community and care.
Primarily working with artists whose practices, values and lived experiences question dominant norms, I attempt to to cultivate the best conditions for myriad bodyminds to make the kinds of work they want to, on their own terms and rhythms. As dramaturg/e, I’ve worked alongside folks like Caroline Bowditch, Claire Cunningham, Guest House Projects, Jassy Earl & Chloë Smith, Mirjam Gurtner, Farah Saleh, Birds of Paradise Theatre Company and Jonathan Watkins and was Guest Dramaturg with South East Dance.