A lush ambient score by Sebastian Barrett is complimented by the slow drip of coffee and weather-inspired poetry that ebbs and flows.

This work was supported in creation and touring by Arts Council of Wales with extra commissions from Richard Chappell Dance’s Supporting Acts and Volcano Theatre’s Solo Duets for the Future programmes. It toured to Torch Theatre, Dance Blast, VAULT Festival and The Dance House across 2022 and 2023.

Since 2023, I have been researching ecology through a series of interconnected work. It started through an audio-visual commission from Span Arts called ‘Our Branch That Stopped Singing’ which meditating on shifting soundscape ecologies in Pembrokeshire.

This then led to an Arts Council Wales funded R&D of a project called In the Silence of Blossom in 2023 with Stefan Janik (sound), Dr. Lara Kipp (scenography), Ting-Ning Wen & Honey Stoové (dance artists). This was shared at The Dance House in Cardiff, yet sadly has faced multiple funding bid failures since.

Within the ecological themes of the project, we then translated some of the costumes and principles into Golden Leaves, a duet for Resolution Festival at The Place in January 2025 between Maggie Chan and myself. This work specifically looked at wintering and was created in the Forest of Dean during November, a cold and quiet month.

The project is currently waiting for the next shoot to arise from the compost with a particular interest in exploring our relationship to silence in ecosystem as both a moment of tranquility and a moment of ecological grief.

I concluded my MA in Expanded Dance Practice by creating a work with Yung Chih Teng, Marta Guerra Doblas, Xinyi Du and Mei Ting Fang called Streams of Gentle Yesterday. This reflected on themes of memory, change, presence and water, particularly in search of a way of loving London and appreciating the short time we share with friends.

This developed further during Arrive by Ransack Dance Company, becoming a solo performed by myself in which I spoke to audience and they helped curate the dance journey by selecting playing cards written by previous audiences and dancers.

During the piece, I tell stories of time with friends, have conversations with audience members about how they’d talk to their past selves and a single duet of 2 local dancers drifts across the space.

The piece was then developed further through an Arts Council of Wales bid, including community workshops across Wales and a performance at The Dance House in Cardiff. Gentle Streams was then born and has been developed further through the Reverse Pitch programme by Swindon Dance and commissioning as part of Dance in Gloucestershire’s Dance Day.

The idea for this project emerged after spending some time unemployed in dance, working in a bakery and starting my own garden. I noticed the daily dance of my hands. I then also noticed how hands were being used in hateful ways through the rise of far-right politics in the US and UK and I starting considering the intentionality of how we use our hands and the potential they hold.

I first research during a Winter Residency at Pavilion Dance Southwest, before then testing movement ideas through an Artistic Research Commission at National Dance Company Wales, working with the company dancers.

Following this, I received Arts Council Wales funding to develop the work with support from Richard Chappell Dance, National Dance Company Wales and Swindon Dance. I worked with Dr. Lara Kipp to develop the scenography work and started the duet process with Liam Wallace (albeit it will be a continually shifting array of dance artists, each one meeting the score with their own interpretation). The music is created by Seoyoung Park on the Gayageum, a Korean stringed instrument.

Interwoven with the work are interviews of craftspeople discussing their practice and how they use their hands: tattooists, gardeners, shoemakers, farmers, booksellers, theatremakers, woodworkers.

The Poetics of Hands Meeting premieres at Dance Blast in Abergavenny.

This work was then supported to tour further by Wales Arts International, going to various organisations in Taiwan as well as being shared in Kagoshima and at Key+ Dance’s inaugural festival in Tokyo.