NOW (Why 'now'?)

• promotion for Fat Performance

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

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

• organising socials for live artists/experimental performance makers in and around Newcastle upon Tyne through Wunderbar - next one in September with Helen Collard!

• preparing to lead workshops at ImPulsTanz this August

• writing a Substack

RECENTLY

• Joined Jonathan Burrows, Bojana Cvejić and Guido Orgs in their research project about choreography as an inherent property of all dancing at the Centre for Dance Research, Coventry University for the second time

• Spoke with Ben Wright and Rhiannon White as part of a Webinar Wednesday session with The Place

• Mentored Emma Lewis-Jones and Bishop May Down in their research towards Insistence: A Butch Ballet, thinking about community engagement and fatness and dance

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

• signed off the manuscript with Jussara Belchior Santos and Magdalena Hutter of our book, Fat Performance (forthcoming later this year, Intellect)

• Acted as an external industry advisor on the revalidation plans of the MA Dance: Participation, Communities, Activism at London Contemporary Dance School

Image still from You Are Here by Magdalena Hutter