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Re-emerging: A choreography of parenting.

From September 2022 until June this year, I along with 7 other artist parent members of The Work Room have been part of Re-emerging. Re-emerging was a new peer support and working group created to discuss, dance, offload, question and share the complexities and (im)possibilities of balancing our caring responsibilities […]

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Returning to work post-baby, mid-pandemic.

With an 9-month old baby, I crept back into work in April, working as choreographer on Lyra Young Company’s new production. We are working with the young people to create their first film, devising through screens from our homes with the intention of discovering their experience of the pandemic and […]

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Lyra Connections Commission

Earlier this year, I, along with 4 other artists, gratefully received a commission from children’s theatre organisation Lyra, to create a new performance work with a group of their Young Artists. What’s extra special about this commission, is that the children and young people themselves played an integral part in […]

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Expansive Screendance

Expansive Screendance is a research and development project in collaboration with Owa Barua, supported by The Work Room residency programme and Creative Scotland. Owa and I have just finished up our 2-week residency at The Work Room and Platform and are reflecting on our time. The motivation behind this project […]