About

I am a multi-disciplinary artist whose primary practice is in dance and movement. My work spans across creative health, live performance, theatre writing and movement direction.

At the heart of my practice is facilitating pockets of joy, as well as bringing about a sense of empowerment and curiosity. I am really interested in work that has social impact, can build community or has an edge of activism.

My approach is inclusive and person-centred, collaborating with all kinds of people and adapting needs to each context and project. I believe being creative is learning what it means to be together, as humans - sometimes silly, sometimes serious and often curious.

Over the past 15 years I have facilitated workshops, co-devised projects and choreographed live work for schools, universities, charities, festivals, DIY venues and arts organisations. My practice is varied and whilst my main discipline is dance, I have also created theatre performances, worked alongside installation artists and assistant-directed a 3 day live art festival.

My work has led to collaborations with a variety of artists, working in diverse disciplines and settings including visual art, sculpture, puppeteering, acrobatics, health care, academia and comedy. One of my favourite ways of working is finding ways to co-create live events or choreography in unusual places.

Alongside devising and collaboration, I am committed to expanding my practice in new ways. This has included mentoring, training programmes and CPD, including:

Diverse City, Extraordinary Bodies - Unexpected Leaders cohort (2024)

People Dancing - Power Up Your Practice (2024)

People Dancing - Live Well and Dance with Parkinson's (2024)

Edge Hill University - Arts for Blues training (2023)

Luminelle - Artist Exchange Programme (2019)

Third Angel - Third Angel Mentoring Scheme (2017)

Projects

Projects 2024/25:

I Am Festival - Lead choreographer for parade at Tate Modern, London. Working with A New Direction (2025).
Out-Raged - Independent LGBTQ+ inclusive dance sessions for activists and shakers at U-Mix Centre, Sheffield.
Clams in their Eyes - Choreography and movement direction support alongside Delicious Clam (2024).
Moments of Joy - South Yorkshire Housing Association, multi-disciplinary artist for co-creation of performance (2024).

Moments of Joy:

Video credits: Wayne Sables/South Yorkshire Housing Association/Artistic Producer Cara McAleese.

Past Projects:

Dance OnWards (2021-23) - Facilitating dance and movement sessions on acute mental health wards with Sheffield Health and Social Care arts festival.
Sightlines Festival (2021) - Panellist Speaker discussing wellbeing and performance making from a lived experience perspective.
Glimmer (2020) - Ats Council England funded R&D, using theatre and dance to develop a new performance about social media and confidence, in collaboration with Genevieve Carver and Sheffield Futures.
Unshut Festival (2019) - Co-creating Sheffield's first live art festival over 3 days at DINA venue, inclusive of all forms of live art performance.
Work In Progress (2018) - Arts Council funded R&D with following touring show, exploring mental health labels and diagnosis through stories, learning to dance and being comfortable with feeling uncomfortable. Audio-visual collaboration with Zaron Mismeres and producing support from Joe Willis.
Cocoon Collective (2017/18) - collaboration with SheFest, headlining for International Women's Day events in Sheffield with a rendition of Eve Ensler's Vagina Monologues in 2017 and an original performance of showcase titled 'Wild Woman' from women of Sheffield and Together Women Project.
My One True Glove (2016) - Choreography collaboration with Travelling Shadow Theatre Company. Showcasing a surreal tale depicting lost love and loneliness using object theatre, dance and puppetry.
Hazard/Word of Warning Festival - performer in duet alongside Ali Wilson for incidental intervention and sited performance, hazard is cheeky, thought-provoking with sprees of eccentricity.
Summer. Autumn. Winter. Spring. (2014/16) - Performer with Quarantine, Manchester based performance company for showcases 22 & 26 March and 2 & 3 April 2016 | Old Granada Studios, Manchester, UK.