About me
Chapter 1
1995–2015
As a graduate of Northern School of Contemporary Dance (BA) and London Contemporary Dance School (MA), I’ve had the privilege of building a rich and diverse 26-year career in the dance sector. During this time, I’ve performed and taught in a wide range of educational and community settings, both in the UK and internationally.
Over a 12-year period, my most significant contribution to teaching has been in the field of youth dance. This has included choreographic commissions, technique classes, mentoring, fitness and career guidance, as well as training workshops focused on wellbeing and emotional safety. I have delivered this work across a broad range of contexts, including independent youth dance settings, Youth Dance England, and the National Centres for Advanced Training (CAT schemes). I have worked with the majority of CAT programmes across the UK and held full-time teaching positions at both Laban and DanceEast.
My performance journey has been deep and broad taking me across different touring networks, collaborating with a variety of companies and choreographers on projects which span large-scale productions, site-specific works, and intergenerational community engagement.
Between 2005-2015, I played a key role in the development of several seminal works and outreach initiatives, contributing to, and advocating for, the visions of the companies and directors I worked with. This included touring, teaching, and co-creating with Barebones (DanceXchange), Panta Rei Dance Theatre (Oslo) and Motionhouse Dance Theatre, where I was involved in large-scale outdoor shows and community projects.
My work with Wired Aerial Theatre extended beyond performance to include roles as an aerial dance artist, stunt performer and Assistant Movement and Stunt Director, supporting artistic director Wendy Hesketh-Ogilvie. I also collaborated with Luca Silvestrini (Protein Dance) on the award-winning productions LOL and Border Tales which toured extensively across the UK, including through British Council initiatives, and internationally.
Touring and performance have taken me across the UK and Norway, as well as to Sweden, Europe, North Africa, Tanzania, Ethiopia, Bangkok, Bogotá, India, Moscow, Beirut, Palestine and Jordan.
Other performance and collaboration credits include: Rhiannon Faith Company, Elisabetta d’Aloia, Henri Oguike, Sharon Watson, Mike Ashcroft, Liam Steel, Corey Baker, Antonia Grove, Holly Thomas, Kate Flatt, Kenneth Tharp, Banksy, Anna Williams, Viv Gordon, Tom Roden, Ben Duke, Pippa Duke, David Massingham, Rui Horta, Andy Pink, Ash Mukherjee, Bakani Pickup, Melanie Pappenheim, Emilyn Claid, Joseph Mercier, Yael Flexer, Shivaangee Agrawal, Erin Sanchez (One Dance UK), Phoene Cave (TRANSIT), and Intimacy Co-ordinator - Rose Ryan.
Chapter 2
In 2015, my mental health and my career collided. Through recovery and reflection, this turning point opened a new chapter: I moved into becoming an independent artist. Since then, my practice has evolved into an ongoing enquiry into care, centred around access, lived experience and inclusion.
As a maker, curator, facilitator and EMCC-accredited Senior Coach, I work across performance, teaching, mentoring, coaching and sector development. My focus is on how mental health access, neurodiversity, queerness, chronic illness, mental health and hidden disabilities can inform not just content, but the structure and ethics of creative work.
Projects like Rockbottom (2016–2019) and A Queer Collision (2021–2024) have explored safeguarding, access and audio description through performance and public engagement. Alongside these, I developed Head:On:Conversations - a strand of work focused on sector mental health, wellbeing, inclusion and change, through films, symposiums and creative dialogue.
I recently collaborated with Dr Angela Pickard (Canterbury Christ Church University), founder of the Dance Pedagogy Network (2023-2025), along with Kathryn Stamp (Coventry University), Darren Carr (NSCD) and Wendy Timmons (Edinburgh University). Together, we supported the development of national and international teaching artists, facilitating reflective practice and contributing to UK-wide symposiums focused on inclusive, sustainable pedagogy practices.
My teaching has developed through a collaboration with Talent Accelerator, a programme for young people in East Sussex, offering career support. My involvement was the delivery of a creative mentoring programme to support young artists’ career and artistic development.
Beyond teaching, I contribute to artist development and sector dialogue through articles, podcasts and platforms such as EMBRACE (Protein Dance), The Place’s webinar series, One Dance UK conferences, and through presenting at IADMS (International Association for Dance Medicine & Science) between 2021–2024.
My leadership has been shaped by my experience as an alumnus of Unlimited and Clore Leadership’s Inclusive Cultures programme.
I continue to advocate for change through the following roles:
Trustee: STEPPS (mental health charity for dancers)
Trustee: Dance Network Association
Former Trustee and current contributor to Candoco’s Disability Advisory Group
Advisory Board Member: Roehampton University Centre for Research in Arts and Creative Exchange