This webpage has some of my personal favourites from my artistic and curatorial portfolio. I include my reason for each one. These five projects capture a snapshot of my choreographic, curatorial and cinematic practice, always led by making sure everyone has a good time. There are live links to external pdfs on this webpage.
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Shower Thots (2023) is a career highlight encapsulating how audiences can participate during a performance. This work exemplifies my capacity to make large scale immersive experiences centring choreography. Two 4-star reviews, over 200 attendees, this work was called “a show that will leave you wet and wanting more.”
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 with the audience given when a ticket was purchased, the audience experienced episodes from the imagined point 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.
Δ Change from Aotearoa (2023) is a career highlight as it combines my advocacy, research and lived experience across Aotearoa and so-called Australia. Efren Pamilacan and I received funding and partnerships from Creative Australia, Dancehouse, Chunky Move, Basement Theatre and Carriageworks. The community rapport, sold-out audience and symposium research capture my passion for cultural accountability in social dances from Queer, Black and Brown communities and how it can be navigated from a holistic lens, putting community first. Read the comprehensive graphic report here.
Lunar New Year Disco (2020) showcases my passion for innovation for street dance events. A commission with the Melbourne Museum in partnership with Midsumma Festival and funds from City of Melbourne, I was able to bring with my community, Burn City Waack, bring our Queer dance form to the Nocturnal program to over 1250 people. The event included inclusive workshops in Punking, Lip-syncing and Waacking in tandem with an evening takeover of the Melbourne Museum.
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 Perofrmance’s Olivia Muscat.
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