through various stages and blunderings through feminism, anarchism, queer theory and lots of somatic body trainings (including the intensities of a vipassana meditation practice for 14 years), my practice has become focused on choreographic research where the body - as a site of political inference - is foregrounded and explored.
my current projects explore the synthesis of queer thinking and somatic processes in performance practice - currently my studio research is reflecting upon queer failure ('The Queer Art of Failure', Judith Halberstam, 2011) involving the awkwardness and confusion of the felt flow between performer and spectator, a potent relationship, ripe for a failing subversion.!
initiatives have included: Proud D.I.X.
(2011-present), UNCO Productions (2003-present), Slightly Synthetic Dance
Company (2000-2005), and Hum dance (2008-present) and Bare performance series (performance improvisation investigations and events - 2006). initially
i began performing in what might be called political street theatre and performance activism in 1992 with the McGillicuddy
Serious Party and with The Random Trollops (AK) and The Hags (Wtg) which were active Anarchist Feminist performance troupes in the early 90s. Since
graduating from Unitec’s Contemporary Dance programme (2000) i have performed and
collaborated with many independent artists and choreographers including de novo (Dunedin), Body Cartography
Project (US/NZ), Alys Longley (Auckland), Tony Yap (Melbourne), Moment Telepath (Dunedin), Meg Ransmeier (US), Stuart Phillips (everywhere and more), amongst others.
my personal favourite projects to date are Samiam and gang (gender subversion in performance), Not you nor I, but both and neither (relational dance research project), Community of Touch (contact improvisation creative community building project), and Somatics and Performance Study Group (research).
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my personal favourite projects to date are Samiam and gang (gender subversion in performance), Not you nor I, but both and neither (relational dance research project), Community of Touch (contact improvisation creative community building project), and Somatics and Performance Study Group (research).
