Blog Articles
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Connecting Creatively Through the Performing Arts
This post was first published on the Minderoo Centre for Technology & Democracy’s blog site on April 25th, 2024 as part of the Centre for Research in the Arts Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH) at the University of Cambridge, where I have been an Affiliate Researcher. Below I exploresways in which movement and modes of…
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Dance Legacy at Work (Part 3)
As part of the inaugural Body of Work – Unfolding Fase festival, a celebration of ‘living dance heritage’ hosted by STUK – House for Dance, Image, and Sound in Leuven, Belgium, I’ve had the privilege of witnessing bodies at work – both young and older – preserving and persevering a dance legacy through performances, new events (such…
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Dance Legacy at Work (Part 2)
As part of the inaugural Body of Work – Unfolding Fase festival, a celebration of ‘living dance heritage’ hosted by STUK – House for Dance, Image, and Sound in Leuven, Belgium, I’ve had the privilege of witnessing bodies at work – both young and older – preserving and persevering a dance legacy through performances, new events (such…
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Dance Legacy at Work (Part 1)
As part of the inaugural Body of Work – Unfolding Fase festival, a celebration of ‘living dance heritage’ hosted by STUK – House for Dance, Image, and Sound in Leuven, Belgium, I’ve had the privilege of witnessing bodies at work – both young and older – preserving and persevering a dance legacy through performances, new…
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Dance is Hard to See – Transmitting Trio A (1966) and other Acts of Preservation
My practice and research look at ways dance lives in the museum as an artwork, a practice and a form of relation that informs the human ecology within the museum. In 2015, I conducted a series of interviews with curators and dance artists on what dance in the museum means to them. Those interviews are…
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The Interdependent Dance Artist
Recently I have been in conversation with colleagues and cohort in the dance community around the term ‘independent dance artist’. There is an emerging and mutual sense amongst us that the word ‘independent’ is outdated and proposes a false sense of reality in the way the ‘independent dance artist’ operates within the larger cultural sector.…
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Qualities for Being (together): Things Dance Artists Know and the World Needs
‘A New Role for Dance’ was a project that I conceived during lockdown (2021) and involved a number of artists and invited guests. I was interested in exploring together what kinds of knowing emerges from training in dance and choreography. I was curious to be beyond ‘transferable skills’ in dance to understand and make visible…
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Democratic Organisational Structures & the Multitude in the Choreography of Yvonne Rainer
The fourth in a series of blog posts featuring projects that I love and what makes them so important to me, focuses on my work with choreographer and filmmaker Yvonne Rainer. As a dancer, assistant to and a living archivist for Yvonne I have traveled extensively performing, teaching and lecturing about her work – primarily…
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Shifting Positions, Changing Perspectives: Human Movement and Design as Change Makers in the Museum
The third series of blog posts on past projects that have completed and the things I love about them. This week is Punt.Point a performance-based art work and interactive design piece by Sara Wookey in collaboration with designer Rennie Tang with design assistant Gabriela Baka. The work was installed at the Van Abbe Museum in…
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Engaging indoor / outdoor spaces of the Louvre Lens
This is the second in the series of blog posts highlighting selected projects I have led or collaborated on and what I love most about them. This forms part of my exploration towards the next phase of my career in supporting cultural institutional change through methods of expanded choreographic practice. Today I am re-visiting Moving…
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