I was born in Aotearoa, NZ and now live and work in Bern, Switzerland. I make performances, dances, texts. And help others to do the same. Since 2008 I’ve been working independently in the fields of choreography and performance, collaborating with artists across artistic disciplines and cultural divides. My choreography practice works with the materials of the present; continuously listening to and letting go as things fall apart and reform. Typically, my solo or group projects emerge from this practice of mixing up language and movement and have so far dealt with questions of apocalyptic fantasy, the coercive language of self-help, spectatorship and the archive, mothering slash monsters and the sensual, slippery systems of assemblage between thing-hood and people-hood when dancers and sculpture-beings meet. Between 2013–2015 I was a Pro Helvetia Young Associated Artist and Artist in Residence at Dampfzentrale Bern, where my work is still regularly co-produced. Since 2013, and in recognition of my emerging presence in both national and international settings, I’ve been a regular recipient of support from the City of Bern and Pro Helvetia Switzerland. I graduated in 2020 with an MA in Contemporary Art Practice from HKB and regularly facilitate the Das Arts Feedback Methods for emerging and established choreographers and dance institutions. In 2023 I was awarded the Pro Helvetia Swiss–UK Connect Residency in Manchester where I worked with local artists on shared interests of writing and moving. In 2024 I received an Off-Stage Stipendium to research Intimacy Direction in Dance Contexts and became a SAG-AFTRA-accredited Intimacy Choreographer for Live Performance.
// My Body is an Island (2008)
// You Should Have Seen Me (2009)
// naturalcauses (2012)
// MADE TO ORDER (2013)
// This is the Beginning (2014)
// the way you look tonight (2015)
// Participation (Footnote NZ Dance Co 2017)
// Mo*FU (2017)
// Monsterhood. The Making of (and Wiersch 2020)
// PUDDING CLUB (and Wiersch 2022)