dancing

2023

Cinematography & Editor: Helena Öhman

Sound Design: Rob Bentall (to be produced)

In 2019 the surviving Tiller Girls, representing many different generations of dancers, met up for a reunion in Blackpool—a key home of the troupe. I went along with Helena Öhman, to record the event and talk to the women.

The footage of the event shows glamorous older women, posing, chatting, laughing, negotiating one another, reliving memories, and showing me how to link arms as a Tiller Girl.

Interposed text highlights speech, emphasising the insights and opinions that develop and challenge earlier video works. Black and white archival footage of filmed theatre performances depict Tiller Girl dances giving visual descriptions to pair with the stories.

2011

Scene 4 web — **Gaga Charleston, 2011**
Video, 4 mins 7 secs

The final ‘letter’ I sent to Kerstin Honeit, as part of our video dialogue ‘*Video Letters*‘. This later became Scene 4 of the ‘The Artist’, a collection of five videos dancing in my studio.

2020

**How Can I Perform As An Image? (Catherine Hamilton and Burgundy Circle)**
Collage on A4 watercolour (300gsm) paper (210 x 297 mm)

**How Can I Perform As An Image (Getty Jasonne with Gold Triangle Head)**
Collage on A4 watercolour (300gsm) paper (210 x 297 mm)

**How Can I Perform As An Image? (Erni Erica with Gold Square)**
Collage on A4 watercolour (300gsm) paper (210 x 297 mm)

**How Can I Perform As An Image (Abstract / Bauhaus Catherine Hamilton)**
Collage on A4 paper (210 x 297 mm)

***How Can I Perform As An Image? (multicolour silhouette Getty Jasonne)***
Watercolour on A4 paper (210 x 297 mm)

***Pose and Shadow, Dorothy Dilley***
Watercolour on A4 watercolour (300gsm) paper (210 x 297 mm)

2009

Moves That Bear Repeating

Aug 012015

My review of a review of Yvonne Rainer’s Dance Works at Raven Row has been published in X-tra Art Quarterly.

New Pointe Shoes

Mar 052010

I don’t know, I can’t explain, I don’t have answers. I found a new ballet class, with a good pointe class after it, and I did it again. I wore my Gaynor Mindens and they were too tight. So I bought a new pair. Half a size larger, and with a wider box. I am 31 and I bought another pair of pointe shoes. Part of me thinks it is practice; dancing ballet and pointe. And another part of me despairs. Oh but then they first part of me thinks – ha! I can dance en pointe in unexpected places, like giving a conference paper?