NOW (Why 'now'?)

• promotion for Jussara Belchior Santos, Magdalena Hutter and my book Fat Performance. Order it for your libraries!

• preparing to make a new one-to-one performance during Dance City's Creative Summer

• 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 October with Helen Collard!

• 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

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

• Spent an intense nine days leading workshops at ImPulsTanz in Vienna

Image still from You Are Here by Magdalena Hutter