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 guided by ensuring 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 that encapsulates how audiences can participate in a performance. This work exemplifies my capacity to make large-scale immersive experiences centred on choreography. Two 4-star reviews, over 200 attendees, this work was called “a show that will leave you wet and wanting more.”
Solarpunk (2026) is my entry and new passion for text. I worked with my mentor and Skinner Releasing Technique teacher, Wendy Smith, to create a performance at sunset, creating images to help people cultivate a spongy state, a quiet state of alertness, and a shift in their nervous system. The archival shot by Cobie Orger, captures this public activation, honouring The Great Petition Sculpture. Watch the excerpt from 9-15 minutes, which captures my love of improvisation and how images created from text can empower the body; “your body has mastered what most goverment’s haven’t.”
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, provided when a ticket was purchased, the audience 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.
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 through a holistic lens, putting community first. Read the comprehensive graphic report here.
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.
Jonathan Homsey 
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