Guess who has joined the wonderful, exciting, scary world of fundraising… we have! Thought we would go out and opt for the lush looking Australian Cultural Fund to help us get to New Zealand! We launched our ACF campaign and have until the 13th of May to raise as much as we can. The…
FRINGE WORLD Festival 2018 Perth
Its official! We can finally share that we are performing My Sight – Their Sight at FRINGE WORLD Festival Perth in 2018. We have a mighty good season ahead, performing in the glorious Black Flamingo in Perth’s own Pleasure Gardens. This get you all excited? You can buy tickets straight from here, just look at that…
Won An Award!!
Wow hello world, hello admin, hello catchup, hello emails… As if Melbourne Fringe was 3 months ago… anyway it happened, it was done! We had more and more audience each night which is a huge success for our first fringe show. There were challenges, being the boss and having to deal with all the production,…
Blindful (Melbourne Fringe)
We are performing at Melbourne Fringe Festival 2017! Professional dancer, Abbie Madden (Ponydance), explores the ins and outs of a not-so-obvious disability. Teaming with Ryan Darwin (NICA), they create a quirky and atmospheric interpretation of the relationship between being sighted and not sighted – exploring shifts in power, poignant moments and pure physicality. Can someone…
Meet those in Blindful
As things pick up for Blindful it is very exciting to get to invite more and more talented people to come an be apart of this vision (pun 100% intended). I got to spend a week in Adelaide at LWD Hub as part of a creative residency. The week was spend exploring, developing and playing…
2017 has well and truly begun
Right so I never did the new year new me all that jazz, i’ve been super busy / very unsure as to where this year was heading. I have now got some seriously cool things happening and it is time to keep you updated! ∙ January: Taught, performed and trained at the Western Australian Circus…
Expert Eyes
Way back when I had my weeks R&D for blindful I was fortunate to have Andrew Petticrew of Petticrew Optometrist come along and see what we had been doing in the studio. Andrew is a leading eye-specialist and generously shared his expertise about the eye with myself and the dancers. We had an hour long…
Dancing for Thaliiâ
I know i’m waaay behind on here but i’ve got a few things to share now and a few things coming up! Okay so back in April I worked for Solène Guichard of Thaliiâ Films on a music video for a French DJ. However that didn’t come about in the end (thats the way of the industry) a…
Glowing in the dark
Today I got to rock out in another music video. This time for a French DJ (I don’t know anymore yet, we didn’t have the song to dance to today) Filmed by Thaliiâ. Behind Thaliiâ is the talented and ever professional Solène Guichard. We were holed up in the dark at the Spectrum Centre North Belfast…
Making shapes and shadows
To kick off the blog, here is the first of many awesome things i’ve done this year. Waaay back in January (which already seems like ages ago. Scary) myself and fellow dancer Neil Hainsworth were asked to dance for newly formed band Beauty Sleep in their new song The Dark.It was such a fun collaboration. A laid back…