I don’t quite know where time goes?! It’s been a few months of professional and personal development. I spent a week in May with beloved friend and colleague, Alberto Denis here in London collaborating on methods to devise and make immersive theatre (generously supported by Canada Council for the Arts).

I received a £10,000 Arts Council Grant for Swing Sister Swing and I’m in the midst of choreographing and rehearsing a piece for Step Change Studios to be performed at Sadler’s Wells on 27 June. It feels like a moment in my creative practice where things are gaining steam and these successes are incredible, but also hard earned.

There are so many thoughts swirling around in my head about where I want to go and what I want to say about partner dance. Thoughts about the unconscious bias I’ve felt as a female follow, how expanding my practice has eased that tension. The unwavering belief that what we make together in partner and social dance doesn’t exist when we’re apart and is radical in nature! And that we need to include and collaborate with musicians more.

I’ll be posting more in the coming weeks discussing these projects but in the first instance why don’t you come and support?

Love inclusion and 1930s glamour? Come join me for a taster class at Eltham Palace and Gardens on the 21 June for Queer Walls, Exploring LGBTQ history at Eltham Palace. For tickets and info click here.

Come support Step Change Studios and Sadler’s Wells on 27 June in the Lillian Baylis Studio. For tickets click here.

Want to see an original lindy hop show about 6 international women and performed to jazz greats and a bangin’ original score by Two Twenty Two Music? Come to Rich Mix on 12 and 13 July. Tickets are available by clicking here.