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This webpage has some of my past work and research for this new work. There are live links to external pdfs on this webpage.

This is a live webpage and any private Vimeo links cannot be distributed.

Past work informing methodology:

I Am Series: I Am Maggie, and I Am Carisma –This film work in 2020 and live work in 2022, respectively, celebrated the gamification of dance. Through a word game given to audience members upon ticket purchase, they experienced episodes from the imagined points of view of Maggie and Carisma, respectively. This series solidified my love for creating multiple options for the viewer and performer.

I Am Maggie got the 2021 Green Room Award for Best Dance Production; the production also brought critical acclaim from Dance Informa magazine, with the featured press in The Age.

“I Am Maggie employs a palette of Western nightclub moves, East Asian gestural formality and documentary theatre to create its shifting (un)reality.” – Paul Ransom

I Am Carisma was acknowledged in Artshub as “a thought-provoking, stirring performance with so much to say about what it is to be human, yet also so much to invite and encourage.” This work captures the method of using multiple audio sources via earpieces with the dancers and the audience, creating new audio with live captioning in real time.

The excerpt above demonstrates pairing sensation with devised street dance. In the above, the dancers are working with the impetus of shucking and peeling while doing the dance technique waacking. This devised movement is then paired with asmr of a corn being shucked.

Caca-Capitalismo (2020) is my multilingual audio-described film. It has been presented in Romania, USA, Australia and Aotearoa and was funded by Creative Australia. The work received critical acclaim from Witness Performance’s Olivia Muscat. This work demonstrates how I can use aesthetic access, using a creative audio description as the script for dance. I am an accidental scriptwriter, and this is one of those successes of my methods. (watch the first 3 minutes)

“I delight in things with an unbridled sense of fun, especially those with a satirical element. Despite not wanting to engage with anything related to the pandemic that isn’t absolutely necessary, I completely enjoyed Caca-Capitalismo. The fact that it’s a shining example of accessible, audio-described online performance plays a huge role in achieving that.” – Olivia Muscat for Witness Performance