All the world’s a stage : teaching as artistic practice
Around 15 years ago, I decided to stop sharing my artistic research in the form of performances. Instead, I chose to frame teaching as an artistic practice.
Space to dream : architectural adventures (2018)
Exploring metaphorical connections of body and mind fosters new skills that can transform how we design and realize structures
On perfectionism, process and the impossibility of the perfect tree (2016)
When is a tree perfect? Never. Trees exist in constant process, embedded in context. Success means adaptation, not perfection
Awareness Perception Presence : Inquiring into forming a body of work (2013)
Rather than simply teaching forms that I had been taught and making them increasingly my own through the act of teaching them, I felt like I was for the first time embarking on developing my own body of work
On Teaching Contact Improvisation
In my teaching of contact improvisation to both beginners and more experienced dancers I started to make use of such limited parameter scores
On Stretching
To stretch or not to stretch? I’m often been asked what I think about stretching. I think it is because it seems to be absent from my “warm-ups” when I teach, while at the same time I do place a lot of emphasis on expanding the possibilities of what one can do: surely stretching is […]
Dynamic Alignment (2003)
A funny thing happened recently that opened a whole new angle to my teaching – in fact it’s so distinctive that I decided to name it and offer it as a specific class in future – I’m calling it Dynamic Alignment and here’s how it came to be (apologies to anyone who’s already used the […]
A Trapeze Artist’s Realization (1996)
“Eighteen months on trapeze, and four or five Awareness Through Movement lessons later, I decided to conduct a simple experiment. Hang by my hands from a trapeze and observe what was going on in my body. I was shocked. The muscles I needed to hold me up were working. But, oh no, what about the […]