1. September 18 Folkestone Quarterhouse 7.30

Between lockdowns I was able to plan and develop a series of new performance pieces. Working with Ash McNaughton and Lise Boucon as been essential and a joy, developing a series of works under the umbrella title - Walk Stand Still. My process is playful, uncertain, tentative and I am sure annoying. But both Ash and Lise were fantastic bringing energy and curiosity, enabling us to play, take ideas and pursue them wherever they went. Paul Cheneour, the Jazz flutist/composer has been part of this project from the beginning and the British Composer John Woolrich has been key, an important colleague and influential in all aspects of this process from the very beginning.

During these sessions a number of pieces began to take shape, these include, Intersection-interaction a piece designed originally for the crossways junctions of New York, Bedlam, Audience, Ghosting, Performance, Chair, Mirror Mirror and Command-control-shift. There is also a work designed specifically for galleries and museums called Between Walls.

Isolation, loneliness, fear, social distance, mental health and wellbeing have become something many have experienced in one way or another and in particular during the stress of lockdowns, these conditions have been amplified. These are some of the themes that have been explored or touched on in the developing sessions that began in March 2020.

My influences are endless and include artists John Cage, Merce Cunningham, Robert Rauschenberg, Bruce Nauman, Pina Bausch, Anne Teresa Keersmaeker, Samuel Beckett, Theatre of Mistakes, Station House Opera and the artist Gary Stevens. The list could go on and on and on…….