Performance

My performance style, like my teaching is rooted in improvisation. While "improvisation" is frequently used as a tool to generate material in choreographed dance or theatre, I am interested in improvised dance as a performance art in itself. Currently I have three projects that I am offering for performance: two solos entitled "Interview" and "Rapport", and a duet project with Giorgio Convertito Spatialise.It

Interview

A further development of the methodology that I developed for "Rapport". This time the voice on the recording is mine. The soundtrack is in the form of a list of questions to be considered by the audience as they watch me dance.

Rapport

"Rapport" is an improvisation performed to a spoken soundtrack edited from an American self-help motivational tape. The subject of the soundtrack is rapport - a french word that we use in the english language to describe: "a relation of mutual understanding or trust and agreement between people or a feeling of sympathetic understanding." Taking my cue from the soundtrack, I improvise though movement my relationship to myself, to the space I find myself in, and the audience - seeking to establish rapport throughout.

In recent years I have often combined speaking with moving in my performances. "Rapport" marks a departure from that style. Words are still present but the fact that they are spoken by someone else gives me freedom to focus on my movement.

spatialise.itSpatialise.It with Giorgio Convertito

I recently began to work and perform with Giorgio Convertito with whom I share common desires, interests and skills in the art of performing improvised dance. We studied together at the School For New Dance Development In Amsterdam in the mid-nineties and share some of the same teachers that we continue to study with. We also each have unique, non-overlapping and highly complementary skills.

We are particularly interested in making a detailed exploration of spatial awareness and perception of time. Something we have both noticed is how our relationship to these realms has subtly changed after living for a number of years in Finland. We received a research grant from Zodiak Centre for New Dance to develop our work together and presented the results of our research in the form of a workshop in May 2005.