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Open @ All Souls, Heritage Open Weekend (2018). Filmed by Ruta Puzaite
Working across a range of contexts, projects and collaborations, you might find me ranting, chanting + dancing in fields, galleries, studios, theatres, pubs, churches, shopping centres or community halls. From flash-mobs with 50 over 50s to delivering workshops on crafting rants of resistance; I was even front woman in a band for a while, and provided the disembodied wings for a video art installation at The Yorkshire Sculpture Park. My career is an anarchic, fun loving, consistently curious cut-and-paste experience from the sublime to the ridiculous. A never-ending artistic research project in the merging of art + life. Long may the adventure continue.
Leading The Big Give 'Pose-A-Thon', Dance On, Yorkshire Dance, 2021, photo by David Lindsay
Their Body is a Prophecy, a short film commission for Children's Day: Reimagined, curated by Fevered Sleep + produced by LEEDS2023, 2023, still image from film by Alice Carfrae
Leading a Dance for Parkinson's session with Ascendance Rep, Victoria Hall, Saltaire, 2019, photo by Rachel Wesson
Performing dance-poem 'Witch Club', Blur the Lines, Slung Low, 2020
Dance On session from the patio of a Health & Wellbeing Cente in Chapeltown during lockdown, 2020, photo by Coralie Datta
Performing with FT4 at the Square Scatch event during the re-opening of The Square Chapel, Halifax, 2017, Photo credit unknown
All Over + Everywhere by Scatterlings, Brook Dance Residency, Shawbrook Dance Centre, Ireland, 2016, photo by Catharina Louw
Performing with FT4, The Trades Club, Hebden Bridge, 2018, photo by Dave Croft
Publicity shot for yoga session hosted by Open Source Arts, Leeds, 2020, photo by Coralie Datta, design by Rachel Rea
Leading an Open Dance session, Leeds MOMM (Moments of Mass Mindfulness), 2019, photo by Dawn Kilner
Rehearsal image, Transitions Dance Company, Trinity Laban Theatre, 2015, photo by Daisy Harrison
Still image from R&D with Ascendance Rep, 2020, photo by Rachel Wesson
Performing in 'Beige', a fun flashmob performance with 50 over 50s, The White Rose Shopping Centre + Ageless Festival, 2019, photo by David Lindsay
Performing dance-poem 'Witch Club', Blur the Lines, Furnace Festival, Leeds Playhouse, 2019, photo by Ant Robling
Part I, Invocation, How to make a witch. Leeds Poetry Festival 2022, photo by Dawn Kilner
Dancing in Your Shoes, Company of People, Performing Gender, Leeds Playhouse, 2021, photo by David Lindsay
Burley Blossoms Opening Event, National Trust, 2023, photo by National Trust Images_Paul Harris
Dance (All Night), Melanie Manchot & Leeds Art Gallery, Company of People, 2024, photo by Drazen Priganica