NOW (Why 'now'?)

• working with Body Home Fat Dance on their new work Mass Movement in Portland, Oregon

• production and touring development for boulder, belly, radar, song

• organising socials for live artists/experimental performance makers in and around Newcastle upon Tyne through Wunderbar - next one in July tba!

• doing final editing work with Jussara Belchior Santos and Magdalena Hutter on our book, Fat Performance (forthcoming later this year, Intellect)

• meeting new people who would like to join the fat dance troupe that grew out of the Fat Dance Sessions

• preparing to lead workshops at ImPulsTanz this August

• writing a Substack

RECENTLY

• ran my Do It Together project Disciplined in April with BUZZCUT and Take Me Somewhere (such a good group of collaborators!)

• Worked as both a supervisor and an external examiner (different than in the UK!) on the extraordinary MFA Dance and Participation at the Danish National School of Performing Arts

• revelled in the potential for a community of practice around experimental performance in the northeast during Wunderbar's first Live Art Social, hosted by Patrick Ziza at D6: Culture in Transit, and the second, hosted by Jesse Salaman and Toi Guy at Lubber Kitchen/Lubber Fiend

Image still from You Are Here by Magdalena Hutter