My performing career has no beginning or end, I can’t remember when it started, and I doubt it will ever reach a satisfactory conclusion. I have enjoyed employment within several international companies, I have worked in television and film, I have freelanced my way around the world and I have continuously upskilled my toolset in order to stay current and abreast the evolving performance trends.

 

My CV points to the breadth of my experience and reflects my continued professional development. Here you will find very specific performance footage documenting a 5 period with Phoenix Dance Theatre. Whereas here is a gallery of photographic documentation showing a much longer and ongoing career.

 

As a performer I have committed to maintaining a high standard of technical ability in order to ensure versatility and range in my physical and creative abilities and therefore increase my employability. In my early training I specialised in the Graham technique, a modern dance technique that was pioneered in New York by Martha Graham and brought to UK in the 1960’s by a long time protégé of Graham; Robert Cohan. Following a brief introduction to the technique in 1992 I was fortunate to eventually receive tuition from Robert Cohan himself and performed several of his works. Here you will find links to my performance at his 90th  birthday celebration where I featured in Lingua Franca, a reworking of his early piece Agora. I feel privileged to be only one degree of separation away from Graham herself and I have written an article discussing this and my ongoing work within the Graham technique.

 

My training was not limited to the Graham technique, in fact the study of somatic disciplines began at a young age with a pursuit of martial arts, dance was introduced later at age twelve via the school curriculum. Through further and higher education, and then in professional level training I became adept in Ballet and several other modern and post-modern dance techniques such as Cunningham (again working only one degree of separation from Merce Cunningham the movement pioneer), Release and Horton among others. I often supplemented my dance training with interests in other disciplines, Yoga became a dominant feature of my personal practice as did Pilates and gyrotonics. Social dance (Tango) and Euphoric Dances (5 Rhythms) were areas of movement research that also informed my way of moving and my choreographic aesthetic, when I later started producing and making dance work.

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