Extremely thoughtful and respectful of age. Ballet for Seniors Teacher Training participant, 2021 In 2020 and 2021, I led the development and pilot delivery of Queensland Ballet’s Ballet for Seniors Teacher Training Program. This work focused on upskilling ballet teachers to work with active older adults and addressed: cognitive and physical aspects of primary ageing,…
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The COVID-19 pandemic is changing the way people engage with arts, culture and creativity. Artists and cultural organisations are faced with decisions about how to connect with audiences and adapt to the changing circumstances. Patternmakers, 2020 In response to this challenge, a large-scale nationwide study is being undertaken to capture actionable data about how audiences…
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With the recent and urgent shift for dance practitioners (teachers in particular) to move their work online, I have been leading sessions on interactive Zoom pedagogy to support this transition. These sessions give participants the experience of my interactive online classroom where I model approaches that I have developed in the higher education sector over…
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In 2019 I guest edited the Journal of Emerging Dance Scholarship (JEDS) with Sarah Knox (University of Auckland). JEDS is a peer-reviewed scholarly journal and is designed to serve the needs of international dance scholars who are undertaking graduate research or within five years of having graduated from a graduate program in dance. JEDS has…
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I have taught Ballet for Seniors classes at Queensland Ballet since 2018. Grounded in ballet technique, my class includes barre work, centre practice and choreographic sequences pitched for older adults who are new to dance (or coming back to it after a little or no so little break!). I work through exercises slowly, explain technique,…
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Ausdance Queensland invited me to present a workshop on evaluation. This is a field of work that I have discovered after my academic research training and is a great example of how useful research skills are in the arts! As an introduction to evaluation, I designed this workshop to focus on broad, overarching ideas and…
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The Quest (2019) was a movement workshop program led by professional artists to develop a new performance work. Working with a team of teaching artists, led by Sandi Woo, we undertook the development of community performance work in two stages. The first stage was weekly workshops with three community groups: Access Arts, Micah Projects, and…
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In 2018 I had the absolute pleasure of leading a ‘daggy dancing’ session for QUT Library’s team-building day. My task was to ‘reinvigorate’. So, naturally, I led 30 librarians in embodying zombie-like qualities and we danced to Thriller. This was a particularly memorable session as the group had an incredible enthusiasm for trying something completely…
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In 2018 I undertook audience research and evaluation of the Brisbane Writers Festival, presented by UPLIT. This was predominately a quantitative project which opened up the possibility of collecting data across several areas: festival patron demographics, interests and reading habits; experiences of the festival; marketing; and sponsorship and philanthropy. By taking care to study previous…
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In 2018 I undertook a two-month teaching residency with Ravensthorpe Regional Arts Council. My task was to saturate five regional Western Australian towns in contemporary dance. This project gave every school student in the region an opportunity to dance, as well as offering classes for children aged 5 years and under, and adult classes. Promoting…
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