I’m a movement practitioner, director, facilitator, creative mentor and healing arts practitioner.

I’m French-born and based in Bristol, UK.

Over the past 20 years, I have performed with a wide range of choreographers and performance makers including Saburo Teshigawara & Karas, Daghdha Dance Company/Michael Kliën (2007-2011), Phillip Zarrilli, Deborah Hay (SPCP), Quarantine (12 Last Songs), Lastalaïca Productions, Colin Gee, Action Hero, Laïla Diallo and Roberta Jean/Mysteryskin (Brocade).

I have collaborated with many amazing artists and companies across dance and contemporary performance. These include Dan Canham/Still House, Bert & Nasi, Anneleen Keppens & Raquel Meseguer Zafe.

As a maker, my own creations have manifested across performance, installation and print. These include ‘Hardy Animal’, ‘Dance Dark Dance’, and ‘making each other possible’.

I’m a qualified Somatic Movement Educator through the school of Body-Mind Centering® and Qigong instructor. I have worked as a bodyworker since 2011 and am passionate about all things therapeutic touch.

I am co-director of Gather Up, an artist led dance initiative in Bristol, UK.

Selected Works & Collaborations:

  • Bert & Nasi (2019 - )

    choreography

    THE END (2019) - winner of the Judge’s DIscretionary Total Theatre Award & BE Festival’s Audience Award

    The Beginning (2023)

  • Raquel Meseguer Zafe (2018 - )

    collaborator

    A Crash Course in Cloudspotting - dramaturgy, direction & co-performer for the digital version (2020) performance installation (2022) and radio play (2024)

    Proper Time (current) - dramaturgy

  • Still House / Dan Canham (2011 - 2022)

    associate artist / choreographer

    SESSION - artistic consultant / Of Riders & Running Horses - associate choreographer / Ours was the Fen Country - creative advisor & performer / West of Nowhere & 30 Cecil Street - outside eye

  • Anneleen Keppens (2021-2024)

    creative mentor & collaborator

    creative mentor on ‘Multitudes’ (2022) - a solo dance work exploring multiplicity of self.

    Body Dialogues collaborator (2021-2024)

  • Dry Season (2021)

    dramaturgy & movement direction

    a solo performance work by Kat Lyons exploring societal expectations of age and gender, our need for connection, and how we cope with change.

  • making each other possible (2018)

    choreography & dance

    a trio for two dancers and one drummer - with Stephanie McMann and Rachel Barreda-Horwood - video extract

  • Feel It Festival (2016)

    instigator & co-curator

    A four day multi-disciplinary festival investigating pain and breathlessness.

    In collaboration with the Elizabeth Blackwell Institute & Havi Carel - Circomedia, Bristol.

  • the secret slowness of movement (2015)

    concept & design

    ‘A surprisingly profound encounter. Part installation, part ritual, part post-party. This is a delicately orchestrated gift of a piece.’ -Kate Yedigaroff

    Mayfest 2015 & Dance Umbrella 2016 - trailer

  • Clare Thornton (2012-2018)

    cross artform collaboration

    photography and performance projects including contribution towards Corridors, Stairways & Corners: Re-staging & Materials of Resistance, Clare’s final solo exhibition.

  • Hardy Animal (2015)

    concept & performance

    ‘A dance with words. A funny dance. A dance without a safety net. A dance that isn’t a dance, a generous dance, a fucking fuck you of a dance. A dance that looks you in the eye and says ‘you can’t fix this’ -James Stenhouse

    ‘Entirely blown away by it. Hardy Animal is a spoken word and dance piece about a woman dealing with and working through her chronic back pain. I know. I know how it sounds. But it is entirely excellent. Its defiant and angry and sad and funny and beautiful, really beautiful and brave and just so very very good indeed.’ Daniel Kitson

    Aerowaves Twenty 2016

    Video documentation

  • Hardy Animal bookwork (2014)

    concept & design

    a limited edition fine print book work accompanying the performance.

    Designed with Jono Lewarne of City Edition Studio.

    Printed using an original risograph; blind embossed cover; original hand drawn work in each copy; perfect bound; blind embossed cover

    Wellcome Trust supported publication

  • Dance Dark Dance (2013)

    concept & design

    an invitation to dance in the dark: a private ritual, a solitary step. Participants plunged into darkness for a quiet or a wild moment. The only thing that remained were self-portraits created by the dancing participants.

    MAYK & BOV Ferment Commission 2013

  • in the making

    in the making (2010)

    dance & adaptation

    ‘like a ballet dancer whose been possessed by the spirit of David Byrne and Ian Curtis’

    Adaptation of Deborah Hay’s ‘Art and Life’ - Solo Performance Commissioning Project 2010