Class & Workshop dates, Performances, Presentations & Publications
22 October, 6.15-8pm: ‘The Body and Moving Image’ film screening and Q+A.
The selected films centre on the presence and agency of the body in moving image. As corporeal critique, the significance for film makers and film lovers is on how moving image can explicitly work from the body to refuse a body/mind split in conveying complex topics and identities. Gitta Wigro and I warmly invite you to this compilation of films, presented for their sensuous and critical poetics, interconnected by claiming/reclaiming. We will be joined by Wency Lam.
28 October: performing ‘score’ part 2 of a three-part duet with poet Mary Paterson at The Ivy House Nunhead, London. ‘score’ is about impossible measures.
First work in progress sharing was Monday 14 July 2025, LADA, London at Something Other Live. (Photo Diana Damian Martin)
3 – 4 November: performing alongside Alice Gale-Feeny, Ben Ash and Rachel Lopez de la Nieta for choreographer Heni Hale on her practice-based PhD research through C-Dare/Coventry, Wellcome Collection and Tavistock Work Institute.
5 November, 7-9pm: leading a workshop for singers ‘Body As Basis’ for Barefoot Opera.
Play As We Are – somatic sound practices update:
Maya, Alex and I had a great time hosting our third summer retreat for musicians of all kinds at OT301, Amsterdam. Thank you to everyone who joined us! And who we met this summer at the Dalcroze Symposium and the European String Teachers Association. This autumn, musicians and movers are invited to join Moving Strings/Play As We Are for company class.
Research news
I was invited by Anna Leon to contribute to the Theory Paper for TanzquatierWien, 2025.
I have a book chapter entitled ‘Dancing and Movement in Coaching’ in ‘Arts-Based Coaching: Using Creative Tools to Promote Better Self-Expression’. Edited by Andrea Giraldez Hayes and Max Eames, 2025, Routledge.
I have a book chapter entitled ‘Festival-making and choreography: tales of affordance and crises in the work of Dušan Murić’ in ‘(Post)Socialist Dance: A Search for Hidden Legacies’. Edited by Milica Ivić, Igor Koruga, Annelies Van Assche, Dunja Njaradi, 2024, Bloomsbury.
Listen to podcast interviews by Gemma Harman for ResDance (2024) and with Stephen Moynihan (2025) for Shapes In Motion.
My monograph, Contemporary dance festivals in the former Yugoslav space: (in)dependent scenes was published in June 2023 with Taylor and Francis.
I launched my book at the Institute of Advanced Studies, UCL in May 2024. Three main contributors of book Biljana Tanurovska-Kjulavkovski, Marijana Cvetkovič and Jasmina Založnik joined online with me in person. I’m holding up the festival publication from 2011 PLESkavica that I wrote about in my book. See the introduction here.
I presented my book at CoFestival, Ljubljana, Slovenia, November 2024.
Laban/Bartenieff Movement System modular training
I teach on ISMETA-approved training programmes: with the WholeMovement Laban/Bartenieff Movement System in Italy, and to EMove Institute‘s programme in the Netherlands. This involes teaching practice and theory, assessing, supervising and contributing to curriculum development.
What is the Laban/Bartenieff Movement System?
LBMS is a system of movement analysis and observation. It is also a somatic practice. Check out my free movement classes that introduce movement principles from LBMS.
Since 2023, I convene modules in performance practice at UCL on the BA Creative Arts and Humanities. I have been supervising third year devised performance projects at since 2021 European Theatre Arts BA programme at Rose Bruford drama school, London.
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