Access support, trust, and the high-stakes art of eating fish out of a tin

I recently joined Selina Thompson Ltd’s podcast, Documenting Failure, hosted by the fabulous Tony D Paul. It was a fantastic, vulnerable, and frankly overdue conversation. Among the many things we unpacked, one theme kept surfacing: how incredibly difficult it is to find access support that you actually feel safe enough to be vulnerable around. (I’ll […]

On not knowing: reflections from Lovers Rock

In April I spent the last couple of weeks in residency at Fabric Nottingham. I walked in with a team I had never worked with before. A choreographic assistant, a sound artist, a dramaturg, an academic consultant, performers, all new to each other, all new to me in this configuration. We were working with the […]

No more cringing!

I was recently reminded of a quote in one of Saziso P.’s ‘Articulate’ newsletters. The quote is by someone called @tenickab: “You’re going to “that’s so cringe” yourself into poverty, stop worrying about what people think”. This was not lost on me as growing up my mum would to tell me exactly the same thing […]

Radical Restorative Movement

In 2018, I was lucky enough to receive an an bursary, which supported me to go to New York to spent time with queer choreographer Kristopher Pourzal deepening my movement practice and exploring routes into choreography. Over the past two years I have started to use movement to support my practice as a live artist […]

Read The Freedom Project blog

Artists working on The Freedom Project residency are keeping a monthly blog, check it out here: http://wearethefreedomproject.tumblr.com/