Screen recording, experimenting with documenting research-creation in its layers.
My practice-based research intersects 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. My work is exploring how dance knowledges might impact other fields. I’m attracted to the complexities of participatory and interactive performance. 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
“Dancing de-growth: ‘fleshing-out’ a new economy” (Book chapter in Dialogues for Degrowth: Interdisciplinary Perspectives for Sustainable and Inclusive Futures, forthcoming 2025 Elgar Publishing)
Bread dough as material metaphor for the maternal, Studies in the Maternal (2024) Peer-reviewed journal article.
Talking to myself: Dialogues between Practice and Performance in Documenta Journal (2023) Peer-reviewed journal article.
Presentations
Body, Poetry, Economy: Dancing New Directions for Capital. Energy Philosophy of Practice conference, University of Dundee, October 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 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.
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.
