Video documentation of current work: layered screen recording.
My interdisciplinary research is practice-based, sitting at the intersection of dance and political economy. It feels, moves, and thinks through concepts like value, productivity, degrowth and the commons. I am also interested in play as a research ontology and methodology, and how practice and performance intertwine. I am particularly interested in how dance knowledge might impact other fields, and in participatory performance’s potentials for change. With full funding from TECHNE, I am working on a practice-based PhD at Kingston University and am a core member of the AHRC funded Dancing Otherwise network (UK) as well as a member of the Race/Gender Matters research group at Kingston University.
Friendship and collaboration form the seed of many of my projects.
Publications and presentations
Talking to myself: Dialogues between Practice and Performance in Documenta Journal (Belgium)
“Dancing de-growth: interdisciplinary strategies for fleshing out new economies” (Book chapter in Dialogues for Degrowth: Interdisciplinary Perspectives for Sustainable and Inclusive Futures, forthcoming 2024 Elgar Publishing)
Bread dough as material metaphor for the maternal, Studies in the Maternal (Journal article forthcoming 2024)
Let what is hidden lead: practicing control, care and in/visibility with bread dough and the body. Performative presentation at Visceral Bodies Symposium, Kingston University April 2023.
MFA dissertation and final project BRED: dough-ing embodied research into value and productivity received an outstanding distinction from Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Dance and Music. (September 2021)
A New Survivalism. With Emma Lindsay, Scores for ‘sensorial stockpiling’ – an alternative survival technique imprinting our vanishing world through deep sensory investigation. TaPRA conference presentation Sept 2022, Essex University and Borrowed Time Symposium Nov 2021, Dartington College of Arts.
I co-presented a discussion on Conversation as a research tool at Parallax 15, Trinity Laban’s research symposium, with my podcast collaborators, demonstrating how the voice and conversation became an embodied research tool for us. (Spring 2021)
Co-organiser and presenter at the Isadora Duncan International Symposium in 2013, 2015, 2017 and 2019.
Invited presenter (Somaticising Duncan, Improvising Duncan) at the Isadora Duncan Dance Festival at People’s Friendship University of Moscow (2019, 2020, 2021)
More about the podcast and walking and outdoor research practices.
