Timeline:

Performances:

2004: 'Testimonial' Performance at Chelsea Theatre, London.
2004: 'Long Term Happiness' Solo Performance at The Waygood Gallery, Newcastle.
2004: 'Reading One million Years' Performer in weeklong event in Trafalgar Sq, London.
2003: 'Long Term Happiness' Solo Performance at Camden Peoples Theatre, London.
2002: 'Bodies in Hell' Solo performance at East End Collaborations platform, London.
2002: 'Hello, I'm Happy and I Hope You are Too' Solo Performance at the 291 Gallery, London.
2002: Writer for Sue Broadhurst's performance project 'Dead East', ICA, London.
2002: 'How to Kill an Audience' Selected for the National Review of Live Art in Glasgow and subsequently toured to the Old Museum Arts Centre, Belfast.
2001: 'How to Kill an Audience' Solo performance at East End Collaborations platform, London.
2001: Writer for Sue Broadhurst's 'Blue Bloodshot Flowers', Performed at Brunel University 1st and 2nd June and 291 Gallery, East London 1st August.
2001: Writer/Dramaturge for Ersatz Dance Company's 'Save The Last Dance' nationally toured production.
1999: Writer/Dramaturge for Ersatz Dance Company's 'Re:Generation' Multigenerational community project, Bowen West Theatre, Bedford.
1998: Writer/Dramaturge for Ersatz Dance Company's 'Threshold' nationally and internationally toured production.

Publications:

Articles:

'Process, Repair and the Obligations of Performance: Goat Island's When will the September roses bloom? Last night was only a comedy' commissioned for Dance Theatre Journal, March 2005.
'The Waking Nightmare of the Twenty-first Century: Tragedy, History and Societas Raffaello Sanzio's L.#09' commissioned for Dance Theatre Journal, June 2004.
'On Reviewing' for Live Art Magazine, February 2004.
'Re:Location. The Use of Space in Contemporary British Theatre' in Body/Space/Technology Online Journal Vol. 1, No. 2. 2002.
'Platforms: Context, Community and Criticism' in Live Art Magazine issue 39.
'Writing/Dance/Collaboration' in Live Art Magazine issue 32.

Conference Papers:

'Breaking the Boudaries: British Postmodern Theatre' at the 'Postgraduate Conference' at De Montfort University, 2001.
'Theoretical Acts: Theoretical Hybridity in Contemporary British Experimental Theatre' at PSi international conference 'Translation, Transition and Transformation' in Mainz, Germany, 2001.
'Remembering, Reconstructing, Reinventing: Postmodern Identities and the strategies of Postmodern Performance' delivered at 'Rethinking the Avant-Garde Conference' De Montfort University, 1998.

Reviews and other writings:

Ten To Do Foreword: Written for French Mottershead, 2004.
I have been a regular writer and produced 16 reviews of performances for Live Art Magazine since 2001.
Critique of performance 'Saved' for the Third Angel website 2002.
Programme notes for Third Angel's internationally toured production 'Where From Here' 2000/1.

Reports:

Report evaluating first round of 'Networked Bodies' the first and only online, artist lead, democratic funding scheme for the arts. Commissioned by the New Work Network for Arts Council England, 2003.

Invited Speaker:

Delivered presentation 'What was I thinking: Thought, Happiness and the Classic work of Live Art' at Artsadmin, London, 2003.
Invited Speaker at 'Everything… 2' event at Queen Mary and Westfield University, London, 2003.
Invited speaker on 'Innovative Writing in Performance' panel at the Soho Writers Theatre London, November 2002.
Invited speaker at 'Intensities' conference on Practice Based Research, at Manchester Crewe and Alsager University, 2000.

Other Related Work:

I am a Director of the New Work Network an Arts Council funded national organisation for the support of new performance practice in England through the organisation of national events, regional artist networks and providing advice for members of the sector. The New Work Network also runs Networked Bodies, the UK's first Arts Council Funded Democratic Artist Lead Funding Scheme.
In 2001, 2002 and 2003 I managed Open House at Brunel University, a two-week festival of national and international performance practice.

 

 

 

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