An imaginative, expressive, bold dance maker; I create, perform, and teach internationally, collaborating with a wide range of artists. My work spans dance, opera, theatre, and music theatre. Long-term collaborators include composer Jack James and performer Khyle Eccles.
Trained at London Contemporary Dance School, I continued my studies as one of twelve selected choreographers on European Choreographic Programme Dance Beyond Borders (Germany, Belgium, Netherlands, Portugal, UK).
I have created more than twenty works for professional artists and community organisations, described as “visceral”, “evocative”, and “strikingly original” - “radical physical style” (Die Welt). My work has been performed in the UK, Germany, Switzerland, Sweden, Spain, Belgium, Portugal, Norway, Ireland, France, and South Africa, to critical acclaim.
I have taught extensively, including at University of the Witwatersrand (South Africa), London Metropolitan University, Leipziger Tanztheater (Germany), and YMT, the national youth music theatre company for young people.
Partners and supporters for my work include:
Arts Council England,
South East Dance,
Kent County Council
The Bridge organisations Artswork and Royal Opera House Bridge
British Council, South Africa
Ramsgate Arts,
Newington Community Association,
Children's Writers and Illustrators in South London
Theatre Royal Margate
Lambeth Arts: Small Arts Award 2010, 2012
Culture Programme of the European Union
Children's Writers and Illustrators in South London
Lisa Ullman Travelling Scholarship Fund - 2009 Scholarship
DanceKiosk-Hamburg
Hoxton Hall
London Metropolitan University
Space @ Clarence Mews
Guildhall School of Music and Drama
I am Artistic Director of Tall Tales Big Moves, a dance theatre company based in Thanet, East Kent. We create work for younger audiences and deliver innovative community outreach and engagement programmes. Currently Lead Arts Organisation, Thanet, for INSPIRE "Leading through Culture" - part of the Kent Olympic Legacy Schools Programme.
My passion is movement, its power to communicate meaning. Connecting performer and audience by inviting them to become co-creators of a shared experience: inspired by work that speaks individually to them: relevant, meaningful, readable work, with simplicity and immediacy – real life, real people, real emotions.
