PROFILE
I am an interdisciplinary movement artist, facilitator, performer, PhD researcher and mother working at the intersection of dance, theatre, community and micro-politics. My creative practice draws from physical theatre, contemporary dance and embodied practices, and an in-depth study of the Viewpoints Technique. I’m particularly interested in disrupting established notions of hierarchy and colonial legacy as well as to explore embodiment of micro-politics, practices of care, arts-activism and embodied ways of knowing.
MOVEMENT FACILITATOR HISTORY
BIMM University - Performers College - 2023 -Present
Dance BA dissertation supervisor
Guest Teacher at The Place - LCDS
Samba and Carnival Studies for Dace BA students
Soma Space - 2023 - 2024
Creative Movement for kids and adults
Body Polyphonies - 2020/2022
MFA Practice as Research Study investigating micro-politics of support and integration with a group and as a group.
Meet Me At the Albany/ Ambient Jam - 2020/2021
Weekly somatic movement sessions with elderly and adults with profound disabilities.
Body IQ Festival Berlin - Nov 2021
BODY IQ 2021 celebrates Bodies of Cultures, Communities & Places. I will facilitate a workshop called Collective Dialogues where I will explore embodiment of micro-politics through the Viewpoints Technique approach.
Viewpoints Workshop Facilitator - 2016 - Current
I facilitate Viewpoints Technique workshops for theatre companies, dancers, actors in person or via zoom.
SEMINARS CONFERENCES
Intersections 2025 - Royal School of Speech and Drama
Jan 2025 - Presenter
Health & WELLth symposium Intercultural Roots - London Oct 2022
Facilitator and Part of the Plenary
3 day practice-as-research symposium looking at the art of "To Be With" through a prismatic lens of artistic and somatic language and discourse.
PERFORMANCE/CHOREOGRAPHY HISTORY
Upcoming: Andang! - London
Dance Performer | Feb 2025
BRED just dough it- Barnstaple - Devon
Dance Performer | May 2024
Objects of Attention - Pushkin House - London Dance Performance |
Performer | Jun 23
BRED just dough it- Stour Gallery - London
Dance Performance | Dancer/Collaborator | Sept 22
Body Polyphonies - Trinity Laban - London
Dance Performance Installation| Facilitator | Jun 22
The Sky 5 Minutes Before a Storm - Southwark Playhouse - London
Theatre| Actor | Sept 21
Begin in the Middle (Neither Me nor the Bucket) Seventeen Gallery - London
Dancer | Aug 21
Dance Performance
'one in a trillion is all is everything is one' - Greenwich Park - London
Mover | Aug 21
Somatic Dance Investigation
The Grand Expedition China - Shanghai
Choreographer | Jun 21 - Present
Immersive Dance Experience.
For Fact's Sake - Solo work - Siobhan Davies Studios - London
Dance Performer | May 21 Interdisciplinary dance performance.
Desumanização by PLATO Theatre - UK-BR
Dance Performer | Feb 21 - Present
Live cinema, puppetry, dance theatre performance.
SKIN HUNGER - Siobhan Davies Studios - UK-BR
Director/Performer | Aug 20
Conceived during the first lockdown, selected in the funding Arts as a Breather by @itaucultural - Brazil. Performed online.
Chambers by Gingerline - London
Performer | Aug - Dec 19
Immersive Theatre Experience
Metamorphosis by Collide Theatre - London/Manchester
Actor/Dance| Feb - June 19
Physical Theatre performance performed at Tristan Bates and New Diorama in London and Home Theatre in Manchester
PROFANA - Solo work - Peckham Springs London
Director/Performer | May 19
Interdisciplinary dance performance
GOING - The Theatre of Mistakes - Raven Row Gallery - London
Performer | Jun-Jul 17
Contemporary performance directed by Fiona Templeton.
Undressing the prejudice - Falos&Stercus Company - BR
Performer | May 16
Urban performance performed for 1.200 people outdoors
That's My Appetite - Solo work - BR
Director/Performer | Jan 15
Azorean Opera - Falos&Stercus Company - Portugal
Performer | June 2014
EDUCATION
Kingston University
PhD Candidate in Dance | 2024 - present
Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance
MFA Dance Creative Practice | Sept 20-Sept 22
2 years practical-theoretical MFA delivered in conjunction with Siobhan Davies Dance and Independent Dance.
Contemporary Dance Techniques
Ongoing Practice | 2010 - Present
I regularly undertake contemporary dance and somatic techniques dance classes such as Axis Syllabus, Flying Low, Gaga, Skinner Release Technique, etc.
ArtCraft Circus - London
Foundation course in Circus Art | Sept-Dec 17
16 weeks full-time professional training in multiple aerial/acrobatic disciplines.
SITI Company - New York City
Viewpoints and Suzuki | Sept 14- Jul 16
Multiple Viewpoints and Suzuki Training workshop undertook with Anne Bogart and the members of SITI Company between 2014 and 2016.
Estudis de Teatre Berty Tovías - Barcelona
Neutral Mask | Jul 16
Based on Jacques Lecoq pedagogy the Neutral Mask course is to help refining and amplifying the gestures and actor’s presence on the stage.
Martha Graham Institute - New York City
Modern Dance | Jan- Jun 16
Full-time intensive program study in the Martha Graham Dance Technique.
TEPA - School of Drama - POA - BR
Physical Theatre | Mar 11- Jan 12
Professional Physical Theatre Training based on the techniques of Jerzy Grotowski, Biomechanics of Meyerhold, Eugenio Barba, Rudolf Laban, Anne Bogart, Jacques Lecoq, among others.
SKILLS
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Ability to work in groups and within a collaborative creative process environment as well as autonomously.
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Experience in facilitating movement sessions and workshops for young adults and the elderly.
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Experience in using a variety of different mediums (writing, drawing, speaking, movement).
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Experience in acting, dancing, directing, and choreographing.
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Approachable with high level of empathy and commitment.
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Committed to having an environmental and ethical stewardship approach.
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Attention to detail.
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High verbal and written skills.
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DBS checked.