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2022
Performance - 
ThreeQuarterMoon, a solo improvisation, as part of How Shall We Begin Again, Jo Fong, NeuroLive commission
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Becoming Fungi Becoming Forest - sirenscrossing/Carolyn Deby - Co-created with Carolyn Deby, as part of Coventry Biennial 2021, UK(Nov-Dec. 2021). Video: Trevor Price

Dream Dangerous 
A collaboration with Zadie Xa & Benito Mayor Vallejo,
Frieze Live London: A Programme of Sound & Performance for Frieze Week 2020, London 8-9 Oct.
​In Dream Dangerous, a 45 minute live streamed performance in two parts, I sourced material from Butoh, Chinese dance and song, working through a multiplicity of imagery and sensations to channel the shamanic energy while responding to work by Anthea Hamilton and Haroon Mirza. Film: Sara Deane

Performance of Grandmother Mago by Zadie Xa in Art Night, Walthamstow, London 22-23 June 2019
A depiction of the Korean creation story, this work provides a perfect canvas for the body/mind exploration of trance, journeying through the explosive energy and unbounded feminine power. I co-devised, co-choreographed and interpreted the work in this performance. The dancing is propelled by the drumming and the physical sensation to present a narrative of transformation.
The Squash (2018), Tate Britain, London     
Performing from 10am to 6pm on a daily basis has certainly instilled in me stamina to generate moment after moment of creativity.     
photos: Beatrice Corti

There's a new dance choreography exhibition at Barbican - Trajal Harrell: Hoochie Koochie. Live performances take place throughout the exhibition and it's a lot of fun - one dancer decided to sit in our lap as part of a performance. On until 13 August, £12.50.

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Trajal Harrell: Hoochie Koochie, A Performance Exhibition (2017), Barbican Gallery, London
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The Show Must Go On (2015), Sadlers Wells, London 
 Photo: Danilo Moroni
Combining performance in theatre and gallery has been my current exciting development. The range of artistic approaches, content and context in which the live body situated in these environments have diversified my perception of the performing states from theatrical to naturalistic sensibilities. The framing strategies I have employed in the theatre context have been enriched by the close proximity with the viewers and by the significance of the other bodies, objects and/or elements sharing the space. It necessitates a constant dialogue with the self and the surroundings, which brings exciting challenges that satisfy me as a mature performer.
The past 7 years of working with artists and choreographers in the gallery and theatre contexts have enabled me to witness how the boundary of performance art and dance has been pushed, while allowing me to inhabit the zone that incorporate personal history, thought processes and new dance forms. Working in the cross genre, culture, age, queer and gender narratives has expanded the reference points upon which I draw to distinguish the nuances of the conceptual frameworks.  A considered exploration in the multi-dimensions of theatricality, physicality, and philosophy shapes the way I approach a performance project. I am excited by the opportunity to transform ideas, exchanges, collaborations, dialogues, inventions, imitations and imaginations into action, form and voice.​

rivercities-urbanflows (2014), London                                                                                                       photo: Carolyn Deby
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These Associations (2012) Tate Modern, London
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Reading from a Ribbon (2012), Void Gallery, Derry
photo: Paula Bernadelli
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