Thought Space

I have so many ideas in my head. Or maybe it’s just that I have too much time on my hands.I am aware of my ideas more. Or have the time to observe their appearance.Or, this slow space-time I am living, carved out by cancer, is in fact a gift – genuinely feeding...

I lay there on the scanning bed, half naked, again.  I’m used to this by now. Once I lay there whilst two medical students felt my breast, after the oncologist had done his examination. They need to learn what to look for after all, so by the time I was asked if...

Today I want to write. That may seem a little strange. It does to me. Yet I need to share this sentiment, or motivation. It feels distinct and unusual for me right now, and therefore full of hope.  I have cancer. A few months ago, I wrote about starting...

‘Gonna throw that dog right into the sea’. The line came immediately we had finished our collaborative story building process, and the rest flowed from there. A little like automatic writing; a little more like a world had been peopled, filled, given textures,...

This is a contemplation on loss, encounters and what you carry with you. I feel slightly uncomfortable about this series of thoughts, as it appears to afford inanimate objects (specifically choreographic agents using AI) the same value as people in my life. They are...

It was only when I was driving to get my Click and Collect shopping with two dogs in the back of the car (also on our way for a walk) that I remembered it was my dad’s birthday. I’d like to wish him happy birthday, but I can’t. He would have been 79 today, 16th...

Sometimes I wonder if we live as if we are disconnected from the world, on it not in it. However, much we contemplate the impending doom of climate change (not enough) we carry on living as if our actions have no consequences – the travel industry is desperate to...

Hiding the technology and an experiment in co-creating remotely In February 2021, supported by Kneehigh’s Coastal Community tech strand, Jasmine Cox (BBC R&D) and I set about creating a magic tea set and table cloth to connect people. We wanted to fill it with the...

I’ve been experimenting with how to submit my practice as part of my thesis and made this video. It was a test to see how to get the particular knowledge embodied (and emergent) within the dancers who improvise with Tools that Propel.