I am a dance artist, choreographer and performance-maker based in Dundee. My work sits between dance, text and performance, and takes place across a range of contexts including outdoor spaces and community settings, film, work for young audiences and adult audiences. My practice always begins from listening: to the body, to memory, to story, and to what feels present and urgent in the room. I use movement, voice and embodied storytelling, often drawing on myth, folklore and lived experience to explore themes that feel urgent.

I am drawn to work that is honest, tender, messy and a little strange. Improvisation is central to my process, and I care deeply about creating spaces where performers feel able to bring their full selves into the work, including instinct, humour, vulnerability and strength. I see the body as a storyteller, and performance as a place where difficult or unspeakable experiences can be felt, witnessed and held rather than explained. 

My work currently explores themes of queerness, the feminine, silence and voice, the ocean, and mythic figures such as selkies, witches, changelings and water beings. These figures become ways of speaking about otherness, resilience, desire and belonging in the present. I am interested in how old stories can hold contemporary experiences, and how myth can offer a language for things that resist direct articulation. 

I trained at the Scottish School of Contemporary Dance and graduated in 2018. I am an Associate Artist with Dundee Rep and Scottish Dance Theatre and a the current recipient of the Lucy Bowen Award for Inclusive Choreography. My work has been presented in Ireland, the UK and Denmark. Alongside making performance, I also work in dance for health, teach dance to all ages, perform with other artists, and create opportunities for community, including running a regular improvisation night.