Writing on Lost you for a sec

Last September, I collaborated with Sam Pardes and Eunji Sung on 'Lost you for a sec', an exhibition at Phoenix in Leicester. We invited Rohanne Udall to write something in response to the work. You can find the original text here, or it copy+pasted below: Can you see me? Oh. A desktop; an image of…

Come Closer by Gareth Cutter

I had the pleasure of working with Gareth Cutter over the past couple of years as a dramaturg on his solo performance Come Closer. He premiered the piece last week on the lovely big stage at HOME in Manchester, as part of PUSH Festival. The photo above is by Michele Selway. Below is pasted the…

Still Life

This autumn, I've had the pleasure of working with Hamish MacPherson on his six-hour performance, Still Life. Premiered at SPILL Festival in Ipswich, the work was made and performed by myself, Hamish, Kimberley Harvey and Antonio de la Fe. It's a stange piece, full of juxtapositions of intensity and genre, that experiments with ideas and…

All of These Things

I have been working with Andy Edwards, a playwright living in Glasgow, on and off for the past few years. The latest form of this collaboration is a website that hosts our writing about contemporary art and performance, All of These Things. Here's how we describe it: All of These Things is an independent platform…

Dance Umbrella: Future Facing

In October, I was invited to speak on the future of dance at Dance Umbrella and Independant Dance's Future Facing, alongside Siobhan Davies, Shobana Jeyasingh and Alexandrina Hemsley. A recording of the talk is available within the very rich archive of Independant Dance's Crossing Borders talks here.

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Lost you for a sec

Since late 2017, I have had the pleasure of working with choreographers Eunji Sung (Seoul, South Korea) and Sam Pardes (New York, USA) through Skype. This has culminated in a video installation at Phoenix, Leicester. The show, Lost you for a sec, opened on Friday 14th September, and will be open each day until the…

We Took Photographs

I had the huge privilege to work with Simon Ellis and Hamish MacPherson for two weeks in May 2018 at S'ala – a space for dance in Sassari, Sardinia. We've put together a small bit of writing and photographs from our time here: http://bit.ly/we-took-photographs Image by Simon Ellis, Paul Hughes & Hamish MacPherson

Reading: Adorno’s Minima Moralia

For the past year or so, I’ve been reading and rereading Theodor Adorno’s Minima Moralia, written across 1944-1947 in exile from his native Germany. I think it’s an extraordinary and terrifying book: a relentless and self-unforgiving attempt to address the im/possibility of intellectual and artistic life within a violent and unjust world. Within a tradition…

Tuch by Amy Lawrence

I had the utmost pleasure of working as a dramaturg for Amy Lawrence recently on her solo Tuch, performed by Tilda O'Grady. Tuch was comissioned by the Royal Excahnge Theatre for their Co-Lab Festival in July 2018. The photo above is by Chris Payne, and I've re-posted below a wonderful bit of writing about it…