Scottish Dance Theatre Young Company
I have tutored Scottish Dance Theatre’s young company since 2023, and choreographed ‘Internal Compass’ with them for BOOST festival in Summer 2024. This furthered my practice in instinctive choreography, and furthered my facilitation practice too.
Hold
My screen dance Hold was shown as part of GoDance 2022, its debut to a larger audience. It then was part of Insights Digital Platform in November 2022.
Along with the dancers, I choreographed this piece in response to the lack of physical touch we all received in response to safety measures put in place due to the pandemic. Previously, I hadn’t thought of myself as a particularly tactile person, and was surprised at the longing I felt for this need to be met.
The Energy You Receive
This piece was created in response to my own feeling that I was on a ‘lucky streak’, only to be met by comments from friends correcting me, pointing out that I work hard and the rewards I was receiving were because of that. My company Coven, performed this piece at YDance Destinations in May 2022.
Locked in Lament
Through my involvement with the Scottish Ballet Youth Exchange programme, I was lucky to collaborate with Anise Pearson, an artist working with the organisation Intercultural Youth Scotland. We created this film as part of Scottish Ballet’s Safe to Be Me initiative, and it was shown at the company’s Moving Minds conference in May 2022.