Who's who

PhD University of Surrey, MSc Metanoia Institute, MA Middlesex University

Keywords: choreography, performance

Academic interests/teaching themes

Choreography as a cross disciplinary practice exploring relationships between bodies and objects in time and space. Devising methods of making performance that engage performers and choreographers in a relational practice of shared ideas and processes. Engagement with choreography as a practice of research, related to the wider fields of arts, writing, philosophies, theoretical debate, psychology and architecture.

Research interests

Studio based relational choreographic processes. Interweaving movement and performance-making with existential & Gestalt psychology. Theoretical writing that emerges out of practice, engaging a subjective phenomenological relational attitude that rejects ownership, possession, or any fixed interpretation or truth about others.

Academic/industry background and industry links

National and international links with dance choreographers and performance makers, including Chisenhale Dance Space, Laban and Siobhan Davies Studios in London, Maquamat Dance Company in Beirut, Hong Kong Academy of Performing Arts, LaSalle College of Arts in Singapore, University of Auckland in New Zealand, The Dance House, Limassol in Cyprus. Background in Independent Dance profession, with well established contact base and expert knowledge of dance practitioners.

Recent outputs

• Choreography for Maqamat Dance Company in Beirut 2011
• 'Encountering Uncertainty' Artscross publication for RESCEN & Beijing Dance Academy
• 'What's in a name' Presentation for Performance Symposium At University of Auckland, New Zealand
• 'Still Curious', Chapter for Routledge Dance Reader (2010)

Selected earlier outputs

Writing

• 2006 - Yes? No! Maybe... Seductive Ambiguity in Dance (2006) London, New York: Routledge (major contribution to the field and new material)
• 2002 - A Play of Seduction Discourses in Dance Vol.1 No.1
• 2002 - ‘Standing Still... Looking At You' Research in Dance Education Vol. 3 No.1 (major contribution to teaching at MA level dance/theory)
• 2001 - ‘Odette' Dance Theatre Journal Issue 17 No. 3

Choreography

• 2005 - Pocketsize Dance in Devon commission, touring Devon
• 2004 - Embodying Ambiguities website, culmination of three year performance writing research project funded by AHRC
• 2003 - Remember to Forget - 3rd choreography for Embodying Ambiguities, funded by Arts & Humanities Research Council, touring university venues
• 2002 - No Bodies Baby - 2nd choreography for Embodying Ambiguities, funded by AHRC
• 1999 - Shiver Rococo 1st choreography for Embodying Ambiguities, funded by AHRC
• 1997 - Interface Ludus Dance Company Across Your Heart CandoCo Dance Company (national/international tour)
• 1995 - Never Say Die BBC Film collaboration with Nigel Charnock (director) Arts Council BBC2 Dance for Camera
• 1994 - Laid Out Lovely Arts Council funded production
• 1993 - Virginia Minx at Play Arts Council funded production
• 1993 - Sweet Side Show site specific performance for Riverside Gallery, Funded by Dance Umbrella
• 1993 - Back to Front with Side Shows CandoCo Dance Company (international tour)
• 1992 - Cream & Oranges Scottish Dance artists Parched Swallows site specific performance for Ballroom Blitz, South Bank
• 1991 - Red of the Sweet Northern School of Contemporary Dance, Empty Heart Middlesex University, Empty Heart 2nd version Northern School of Contemporary Dance
• 1989 - Thanks to the Small Hotel Hong Kong Contemporary Dance Company, Breakdown in Draylon Phoenix Dance Company

Current projects/forthcoming outputs

• Choreography for LaSalle College of Arts (2012)
• Co-editor for Performance Research 'On Falling'
• 'Rise & Decline', article for Theatre, Dance & Performance Training (Routledge journal)

Editorial boards

• Editor for Choreographic Practices

External examiner

• Hong Kong Academy of Performing Arts

Supervision of research degrees

• Director of Studies for four PhD students
• External examiner for three PHD students
• Three completions

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