ABOUT

I am a performer, lecturer and Feldenkrais practitioner living and working in London. I originally trained as an actor but these days I dance as well, so my performance practice has increasingly become interdisciplinary over the past decade or so. I work with the tool of instant composition, bringing voicing and moving together. In addition, I work with a small ‘stable’ of dance artists called anthologyofamess. I have worked at Middlesex University since 2010 where I am a Senior Lecturer in Theatre specialising in movement for actors, Programme Leader of the MA in Professional Arts Practice and co-chair of the LGBT+ network. In 2020 I completed my PhD thesis entitled Material Words for Voicing Dancers (Royal Holloway University of London). The practice-led research looked into the use of voice in some dance improvisatory performance practices. I graduated from the London II training as a practitioner of the Feldenkrais Method® in August 2015.

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Recent Posts

Call for Contributions to Choreographic Practices Journal – WORDS and DANCE, special edition
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Call for Contributions to Choreographic Practices Journal – WORDS and DANCE, special edition

Call for Contributions to WORDS and DANCE Guest Associate Editor: Robert Vesty (Middlesex University) Call for ContributionsDeadline for full essays: June 1st 2016 This special journal issue of Choreographic Practices – WORDS and DANCE – aims to draw together, contribute to and exemplify debates around the use of spoken word in current and future 21st…

Gwineverra, Tom and the Enemy of Man
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Gwineverra, Tom and the Enemy of Man

Gwineverra, Tom and the Enemy of Man is a graphic novel performance set at the very beginning of the 21st century. There is dream and death. The characters live in a crime-ridden city where the placement of action and words is offhand and seeks no forgiveness, yet is soft and ultimate, an instant memory, a mark. Something…