Dance // Move // Shout // Play // ACTION

I am a dance/theatre maker, Movement director, community organiser and facilitator.

For the past 15 years I have been working within the worlds of dance/theatre and community organising, facilitation and movement building, working with theatre and dance companies and with organisations and communities locally, national and internationally.

Weaving my roles as a creative with that of social justice movement building, wether that’s co-organising the mass movement of folks mobilising 1000+ cyclists riding for and advocating for Palestine, working with organisers exploring movement tools for resilience or directing 100+ dancers in town squares and plaza’s, by work seeks to push for decolonialised and equitable futures, that speak out against injustice; Work that empowers the use of body and voice for shaping new worlds.

I am a practitioner of embodied practices, utilising somatic tools for resilience, connection and empowerment drawing from somatic practices such as Body Mind Centering, experiential anatomy, yoga, co-regulation and rave . I co-facilitate a regenerative activism space for BIPOC+ organisers at Ulex, Spain, of which you can find out more about here.

I’m interested in the role art has in cultivating and creating space for resistance, resilience and joy. I have developed a practice that incorporates a variety of creative disciplines inclusive of using movement, play, sound, verbatim, creative writing, immersive & multi-sensory theatre making. Particularly seeking to make and participate in work for non-conventional performance spaces.

I am always keen to form new collaborative relationships and have a strong belief that dance, theatre & performance should reflect and represent a diverse range of voices, experiences and bodies, and that it be a mirror to current society . Currently my work extends into creating collaborative practices that explore structures of power and privilege, with a current focus on re-commoning and collectivism.

As a movement director and deviser I have collaborated on shows and worked for companies and venues nationally and internationally inclusive of National Theatre Connections, Frantic Assembly, Theatre Royal Stratford East, Bittersuite, California Rep’ LA, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Dulwich College South Korea, Norwich & Norfolk Festival, The Egg, Bath. I am a co-director of Gather Up dance, a platform for training and networking for professional dance practitioners in Bristol, based out of Bristol Old Vic. Find out more about that here.

I am a creative audio describer for dance and theatre, and have co-authored Racial Equity Guidelines for Audio Describers in association with Holly Thomas and The South West Site Loss Council, advocating for racial equity within accessible practice.

I am Chair of the Board for Rachael Clerke’s Art Business Ltd, (read more here) and I am a member of INTERVAL COLLECTIVE, an artist run collective space in Bristol based in a council building in the centre of town. This is a co-operatively run collective featuring some of my most favourite artists making politically informed, radical and action based theatre & art. Check them out here.

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