Blog Articles
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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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Informing the Institution: Reflections on working with human movement and shared public space
I was recently interviewed by Roddy Shrock, Director of Eyebeam, Art Curator and Strategic Collaborator for his podcast series Informer. The interview was conducted in November 2023 and was recently made public. The first question Roddy asked was, ‘what was your first experience with movement and dance?’. I described my experience of taking part in…
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Resiliency IN_Environments
Our final day of filming in the forests of northern Sweden as part of Moskosel Creative Lab. Working in these special landscapes with filmmaker and my partner Christian Kipp across these days has been a tremendous privilege. I am reminded of the resiliency of the body to adapt to different environments. I am also reminded…
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Empathy IN_Environments & W/Machines
After four days of filming in the north of Sweden, I am looking back at the lens of the camera with the theme of empathy asking, ‘how do I relate to this machine?’. The human’s relationship with technology is ever evolving and some would argue it is problematic while others make the case for its…
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Playing IN_Environments
When I was a child I danced in the backyard of my parent’s house. It was an open space. The space invited activity of movement and play. Play connects back to joy and is something I can find missing in my artistic practice when conceptualisation takes centre stage. Where might a sense of joyful playfulness…
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Courage In_Environments
Filming in a lit forest in Moskosel at 3pm in the afternoon (sun sets at 2.30pm here in the north) on our third day of residency focused on the concept of courage. The first records of the word ‘courage’ come from the 1200s, from the Old French corage, from cuer, meaning “heart”. In re-listening…
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Caring With(IN)_Environments
On day one of our residency we worked with the quality of care and how it might relate to physical spaces of body and landscape and proximities of space between them, of being both near and far. These ideas are also related to Bojana Kunst‘s Open Letter to Artists written during the start of the pandemic…
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