My work is informed and influenced by my experience, skills, and beliefs from my professional career as a dance artist working internationally and as a choreographer directing my own pick up dance company in the Netherlands (1996-2006).
It is also enriched by the unique opportunity I have, currently, as being one of only seven dancers globally who is certified to teach and perform the seminal and extraordinarily progressive repertoire of Yvonne Rainer, an iconic American dancer, choreographer, and filmmaker.
I believe there is an opportunity to demystify dance and explore how the skills, knowledge, expertise and intelligence learned through creative training such as dance can be applied in a range of other contexts.
This is why I don’t fit into a neat category. I am a creative, a researcher and advisor. The enriching intersections between these roles result in the unique multidisciplinary and multidimensional methodology and thinking that I use within my business, Wookey Works. My work includes performing, teaching, writing, public speaking, supporting, deep listening, reflective, evaluating, and collaborating.
My five values aligning all of my work are:
- Health
- Play
- Growth
- Pleasure
- Influence
Whether it’s a research project, a talk or lecture, a workshop, an artistic commission, a mentoring session or a performance – it will be with these values in mind and implementation. It will bring together people in space and time in a practice that is designed to be safe, enjoyable, expansive, positive and motivating.
The outcomes and impact can be instrumental for stimulating creativity & innovation, for solving problems & generating new ideas, for creating engagement & commitment, or for embracing & managing change.
I sum this up as rePotential – revitalising & rewilding