This blog has been set up as a running commentary for my thoughts, responses and current choregraphic ideas related to contemporary dance practice. Making work in a studio is often a private, closed experience – where only the collaborators have the advantage of knowing the process, and the ideas that lie behind the outcomes. My aim through this blog is to provide a space for people outside of the studio walls to have a glimpse into my working process and the materials from which my interests stem. It is also to give me the challenge of trying to write about my work as it develops – always a struggle since dance for me is so inherently tricky to articulate through language.
My project, Notions of Journeying early in 2010 provided the start point for this blog. Through the rehearsal process I updated my experiences and thoughts and contributions from some of my collaborators – the insight of their response to the tasks I set was of huge interest to me and hopefully provided a more holistic sense of the project as a whole to people reading the blog.
The blog worked so well that I am continuing it indefinitely! I am now in the preliminary research phase of a new body of work – The Nature of Things which should be heading into creation and production in Spring/Summer 2011 – watch this space.
My mission: I aim to create sophisticated work that draws on an intricately woven combination of dance, music and visual art. Driven by interests in the environment and perceptions of time, I seek to enable all people to re-connect with the natural world around them. Through animating public and alternative spaces to present my work, I advocate the idea that Art is everywhere – it is just a particular way of seeing.
