As a dance artist/researcher – improviser, facilitator and choreographer – and lecturer at Northumbria University, I’m passionate about creating opportunities for people to experience the joy of moving together. I am currently leading Living Stone a practice research project investigating how durational improvised dance can help us make sense of the immensity and rhythms of geological time through developing an embodied sense that we carry deep time within us. The project has encompassed many improvised performances, participatory workshops, and Deep Time Walks. Since completing the Deep Time Walk training in 2024, I've led many of these amazing experiences with the public, artists, and university students. I’m part of a team offering Contact Improvisation dance workshops in Newcastle. I also work as a business coach for Northumbria University's Internal Coaching Network, and I am a Shiatsu (bodywork) practitioner.
Testimonials
It was informative, thought provoking and mind blowing. The calm way you led the walk made it easy for us all to contemplate and imagine the evolution of our planet and naturally led us to think about our responsibilities towards it.
I enjoyed the ability to reflect thoughtfully on deep time, with a sensitive guide offering just the right amount of information at key points. I realised at a deeper level the impact of humans, and of extraction in particular, on the planet.
I think it will stay with me as one of my most powerful art experiences.
I am a visual and kinaesthetic learner, and it was right up my street.