I have done lots of things that don't have a place on this website because they're not a project. Here is an attempt at a comprehensive list of all the things I've ever done.
It's going to take me a long time to do this, so it will be incomplete for ages. If there's anything we've ever done together or that you remember me doing, please let me know and I'll add it. The things that I've managed to put on the list are not necessarily the most important; that's not how my memory works.
2026
Travelled to London to see Magdalena Hutter's film You Are Here, which follows my words and movements, at the Artist Archive Film Night at Siobhan Davies Studios
Presented an invite-only first performance with my fat performance troupe which grew out of the Fat Dance Sessions
Supported Patrick Ziza to develop their new project focused on medicine and decoloniality
Pretended to do The Artist's Way (I lasted a week)
Attended the Northumberland Dance Development Day at Alnwick Playhouse
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
Worked with KT Kusmaul/Body Home Fat Dance on their work Mass Movement in Portland, Oregon
Ran the DIT project 'Disciplined' with Live Art Development Agency, Take Me Somewhere and BUZZCUT
Visited Copenhagen to work on the MFA Dance and Participation for the fifth time, acting as the external examiner
2025
Was a lead artist on an exchange project with Jussara Belchior funded through a British Council Collaboration Grant, which included travelling to São Paulo and Nottingham
Received a Sadler's Wells Time and Space commission
Acted as a mentor for a group of artist and practitioners on a Dance City/Creative UK development programme
Presented ongoing research about community dance as fat activism at Dance City's research salon
Facilitated Live Art UK's gathering at Live Art Development Agency
2024
Received a Developing Your Creative Practice Grant to develop a fat dance practice
Visited Body Home Fat Dance in Portland, Oregon, leading workshops with non-professional fat dancers
Joined Petra Kuppers' research coven as a short-term guest
Contributed to the British Council CROWD programme, invited by Fabric
Gave the keynote at the Society of Dance Research annual meeting
Was a provocateur at Independent Dance's Dance HE roundtable
Found some words about unison that I'd written to Jonathan Burrows in the second edition of his Choreographer's Handbook (with permission!)
2023
Travelled with the Another Route group to Ghent and Brussels
Travelled as part of the independent work on Another Route to Japan, visiting Tokyo, Fukuoka, Kyoto and Nagoya, meeting with Kyoto Experiment, futome performance, British Council, Kyoto Arts Centre, Yokohama Performing Arts Market, contact Gonzo, Dance Base Yokohama, team chiipro and others
Went to a Sumo tournament!
Briefly became a Director of Newcastle Creates, the city's culture compact
2022
Got the Another Route Fellowship and travelled to D-CAF, Cairo
Became external examiner of the MFA Dance and Participation at the Danish National School of Performing Arts
Made You Are Here with Magdalena Hutter
2021
Was promoted to Head of Higher Education at Dance City
2020
Took part in Fuel's Freelance Taskforce supported by Jerwood Arts
Ran the Live Art Development Agency DIY project 'Fat Performance' with Colchester Arts Centre
Started working at Dance City as MA Programme Leader
Ran the LADA DIY project Fat Performance DIY
2019
Taught into the MA module Researching Theatre and Performance at Northumbria University
Finished a PhD in Dance Studies
Started working as a Lecturer in Dance at Leeds Beckett University
Joined the board of People Dancing
Ran a BALTIC-based pilot version of Siobhan Davies Dance's Next Choreography course in Gateshead
Gave a session on community and participatory dance at Nottdance
Gave a paper on Recreation and recreation at the Raymond Williams Conference
2018
Was a panel member in the discussion 'Dance and Women' at British Council France/France Danse conference at La Briqueterie, Paris
2017
Mentored Gracefool Collective as part of their project on weddings
Received a Developing Your Creative Practice grant to develop new ideas with Greg Wohead and Deborah Pearson
2016
Collaborated on Teachback! led by Jamila Johnson-Small and Adriano Jensen at ImPulsTanz
Ran the Live Art Development Agency DIY project 'Criticism is Community' in Leeds with Compass Live Art
Collaborated on a self-portrait with Jonathan Burrows, Matteo Fargion and Hugo Glendinning as part of the project 52 Portraits
Got a South East Dance/Jerwood Collaborate grant to support Roberta Jean's work on Recreation
Presented the third and final version of Yorkshire Dance's Juncture Festival, where I curated a programme of performances and events focused on the participation of non-professional collaborators
Spoke at Yorkshire Dance's 'Dance Risks' conference as an invited opening speaker
2015
Performed in Greg Wohead's Celebration, Florida at The Yard, London
Became an associate artist at Dance4 (now Fabric)
Worked collaboratively with Jonathan Burrows on the choreography for Bakkhai at the Almeida Theatre
Became an associate artist at Dance4
Was a respondent invited by Forest Fringe at Royal Holloway University of London's Finalists Festival
Brought Keith Hennessy to London with the help of Sadler's Wells and Greenwich Dance, offering a talk and a workshop
Was a panel member on the 'A Place to Dance' conference on performance and the public
2014
Supported Andy Field and Dan Canham in their JCRP project
Started a PhD project at Roehampton University
Did a turn at the glorious Tits and Tinsel
Taught at Royal Holloway University of London invited by Forest Fringe
2013
Started working with producer Beckie Darlington
Started working at Chisenhale Dance Space as Projects Producer
did danceWEB a second time (as a 'frog')
Got a second EU STEP beyond grant to visit Israel
Started doing bits of work at the Rambert School of Ballet and Contemporary Dance
Gave a talk and made the installation 'Third Chamber' with Hamish MacPherson at the 'Beyond Glorious' symposium at Birkbeck University
2012
Ran the Big Dance project 'Dancewatching' with Chisenhale Dance Space
Got an ArtsAdmin Artist's Bursary
Got a bursary to attend Arts Council England's State of the Arts conference
Worked with Ana Monteiro, Katalin Lengyel and Aine Stapleton on 'A New Romance'
Took part in an exchange between Dance4 and JoJo, Oulu, Finland, with Pete Shenton of New Art Club and artists from northern Finland (featuring lots of air guitar)
2011
Curated 'Scripts for Solos', in which northeast performers Tracey West and Anna Hall performed work by Lígia Soares (Portugal) and Milka Djordjevich (US) respectively as part of GIFT 2011
Completed an MA in Performance and Creative Research
Was part of the first cohort of Sadler's Wells University, lasting until 2014
Curated a night at Chisenhale Dance Space, inviting artists from France, Ireland and Romania
2010
Met Sara Lindström Lindhe at PAF's Summer University and started to talk about working together
Started to write for BELLYFLOP
Became an Artistic and Quality Assessor at Arts Council England
Met the live art world properly through participating at Fresh AiR at Queen Mary University of London, mentored by Stacy Makishi
2009
Started teaching a module on the BTEC in Dance at Gateshead College
Got an EU STEP Beyond grant to visit Serbia
Curated Study in Sharing, an evening of work by international artists Lígia Soares and Milka Djordjevich performed by regional artists Anna Hall and Tracey West as part of GIFT 2009
2008
Started leading Dance City's youth group for 14-18 year olds, then called Mania (!)
did danceWEB at ImPulsTanz
did the English copy-editing on deufert+plischke's book, Monstrum: A Book on Reportable Portraits
started working at Newcastle College as a part-time lecturer
2007
visited PAF (PerformingArtsForum, France) for the first time
2005
Started leading seated dance sessions in care homes in Guildford, Surrey, supported by Guildford Borough Council
2004
Started leading community dance sessions in various church halls and community spaces in Surrey
2002
Started 'teaching' dance at Kenton School, with mentoring from Janine Ogilvie and too much trust from the school management