PERFORMANCE AND VIDEO WORK includes:

  • 1984 Choreograph “Little Harlequin” solo dance/ music performance piece for musician Lesley Schatzberger, performed on two international tours
  • 1985 Choreograph solo touring programme for dancer Alys Daines with composers Howard Haigh and Ian Wilcox, including Solo Hits and “In Comes I “
  • 1986-1990 Artistic Director EATING PEACHES DANCE THEATRE
  • 1987 Choreograph: “Palio Dances”, “Hunting Herons”, “Eating Peaches Duets” with COLLECTIVE TITLE NEW MUSIC ENSEMBLE
  • 1988 Direct/ Choreograph “Cinder Girl” with actor Dave Pierce for EATING PEACHES DANCE THEATRE funded by Yorkshire Arts
  • 1988 Movement Direction “Big Mountain”, M6 THEATRE IN EDUCATION
  • 1991 Direct “Journey” for solo performance artist Cheryl Lee
  • 1992 Choreograph “On the Grid” for solo dancer Avis von Herder
  • 1992 Choreograph “Metamorphosis 1” for solo dancer Avis von Herder with composer Richard Leigh
  • 1992-1994 Artistic Director AVIS AND COMPANY
  • 1993-1994 Produce/ Direct/ Choreograph “Metamorphosis” for AVIS AND COMPANY with composer Richard Leigh and novelist Melvin Burgess, two national tours Funded by Yorkshire and Humberside Arts
  • 1996 Movement Director BLACKBURN OPERATIC The Play of Daniel
  • 1997 Choreograph “I’ll be dancing Auburn, Burning Sanguine” performances at May New Dance North, Yorkshire and Lancaster New Music Festival
  • 1998 Choreograph “Valley as a Map“ for Kate Mercer and Katherine Brent, dance workers with LUDUS Dance , music composed and performed by Howard Haigh
  • 1998 Choreograph “Infinite Heart” with dancer Amanda Williamson and live music improviser Steve Lewis
  • 1998-2002 Artistic Director FIGURE GROUND
  • 1999 Choreograph “Barbieography” FIGURE GROUND
  • 2000 Choreograph “An Experiment in Buried Material “FIGURE GROUND
  • 2001 Co-Choreograph/ Direct and Produce “Be/Longings” FIGURE GROUND funded by RALP/ Yorkshire Arts, two national tours
  • 2002 Performance Documentation for PERFORMATIVE ACTION LIVERPOOL
  • 1998-2004 Choreograph dances for dance students at YORK ST JOHN including “Intricate Triplicates, Duplicates Too”; “Grey; “Six Love Songs”; “Three Tangos”

VIDEO-LOG includes:

  • 2004 Direct, Edit and Choreograph “Chasing Angels” Dance for Video in collaboration with dancer Gerry Turvey and composer Howard Haigh funded Arts Council
  • 2005 Direct, Edit and Choreograph Dances for Digital Video : “Four Video Sketches: Enter Shekina and Chiaroscuro Studies”
  • 2005/06 Direct and Edit Short Dances for Video: “As is The Mother…” with Jenny McCabe and “Grey” funded Arts Council, England
  • 2006 Direct “Wig Wam Bam” funded Screen Yorkshire CSF Digital Shorts scheme 2006/07 Direct: “The Projectionist funded Screen Yorkshire and UK Film Council Digital Shorts Scheme
  • 2007 Co-Direct: “You’ve Got Style” music video for UR Penetrators with Yonder Films and Yeah uh Yeah Productions
    “Vanish” music video for Def Club Deluxe with Yonder Films
    “Start Again” music video for UR Penetrators with Yonder Films
    Direct: “Anubhava” video documentation of art exhibition, gallery dance performance and artists’ interviews, Mid Pennine Arts
    Assistant Director Commercial teaching Video, French Folk Dances TLP productions and teaching resources
    Video Documentation: Mazurka Dance and Music Festival/ Yorkshire Dance Workshops
    Video Documentation: live Music Performance: The Long Walk for More Music in Morecambe
    Direct: dance video projection for live performance, for Lisa Dowler, Merseyside Dance Initiative

VENUES include performances and screenings at the following (alphabetical listings):

All Saints Arts Centre, London; Bentham Town Hall, N. Yorkshire; Blackpool and the Fylde College; Blackburn Cathedral, Lancs; Burnley Youth Theatre Lancs.; Cannes Film Festival,France; Chisenhale Dance Space, London; Dance City, Newcastle; Danebeck Theatre, Crewe; Dukes Playhouse, Lancaster ; Edgar Wood Centre, Manchester; Fieldon Theatre, Blackburn; Ferrers School, N. Hampton; Firehouse Arts Centre, Oxford; Guildhall, Preston, Gregson Arts Centre, Lancaster; Helsinki Music Festival, Finland ; Huddersfield Music Festival; Jackson’s Lane Theatre, London; JOhn Moores University, Liverpool; Lancaster New Music Festival; Liverpool Arts Centre; Liverpool Festival of Improvised Dance; Lunesdale Studio Trail; Monitor Arts Festival, Leeds; Northampton Arts Centre; Nuffield Theatre, University of Lancaster; Old Bull Arts Centre, London; Perambulator Festival, Wakefield; Picture House, Heldon Bridge; Priestly College, Warrington , University College of Ripon and York, Ripon; Robert Powell Theatre, University of Salford ; Roseville Community Centre, Leeds,; Sight Sonic Festival, York; Sir John Dean College, Northwich; Stationhouse Community Centre, London, Sheffield New Music Centre, Theatre in the Mill, University of Bradford; Theatro Technis, London; Trades Hall, Hebden Bridge; Video Dance Festival, Athens and Thessolonika; Wenning Studios, North Yorkshire, Wilmorton College, Derby; World Dance Day Festival, Preston; St John College; York, Yorkshire Dance Centre, Leeds, York University, Schools, Festivals and Community venues in Greater Manchester, Lancashire, N. Yorkshire and Music Centres and College in Finland and the USA

LECTURING AND TEACHING includes:

  • 1985 Visiting Lecturer: St Martins College of Art, London, BA Arts and Design : teaching Dance History on Art History Modules
  • 1985 Visiting Lecturer: Trinity and All Saints College of HE, Leeds Dance B.A. s: teaching Dance History; dissertation supervision
  • 1985-1990 Director: Wenning Dance Centre, Bentham, North Yorks. Community teaching & facilitating, generating community dance resources
  • 1990 Lecturer: St Helens College of F.E. Teaching GCSE and A level: Dance and Expressive Arts
  • 1991-1996 Lecturer: Blackburn College Teaching AS and A level: Dance, Theatre Studies and Performing Arts
  • 1997-2004 Lecturer: York St John, College of the University of Leeds Performance Degree, Communication Arts Degree, Sports Studies Degree: Lecturing and Writing Modules on Dance Composition; Collaborative Practices; Current Dance Practices; Dance on Digital Video: Dance Techniques; Improvisation Techniques; Contemporary Techniques: Dance Performance; Dance History; Dance Analysis; and Co-lecturing on Theory modules in Modernism, Post Modernism, Interdisciplinary Performance and Communication theory. Research Committee, research submissions to REA, MA committee, module and course development
  • 2001-2003 Head of Dance, University of York St John

EDUCATION / TRAINING includes

  • Middlesex Polytechnic (now University): BA (HONS) Performance Arts 2.1(1980-83) Dance Performance and Choreography
  • University of Surrey: MA Dance Studies (1984) Dance Compostion, Dance Analysis, Dance History

Further DanceTraining:

  • Murray Lewis and Alwin Nicholais Choreography and Dance Technique Summer Schools
  • New York City; on going classes in Astanga Vinyasa Yoga; Ballet; Contemporary Dance workshops including: contact improvisation with Karen Nelson, anatomical techniques with Gill Clark, Site Specific Performance with Body Cartography Project

Video Training:

  • 2004/5 workshops on entry level equipment with Duncan Holt and with Body Cartography Project, Basic editing training with Jenny McCabe
  • 2005: Intensive Dance 4 Camera Workshop, South East Dance;
  • 2006: Caught Short Focus, Screen Yorkshire
  • 2006 National School for Film and Television: short training courses for directors