– I am a choreographer working within the fields of Dance, Visual Art and Language. An interest in site and site specificity is always present in my work. Currently I am making a new group work that asks ‘what is a site specific dance?’’; ‘what is the dance of this place?’ I create movement, text, and object-works that focus on the notions of mutation, translation, and code-switching. Informed by my Welsh identity and the minority status of my mother tongue, Cymraeg, I manifest my interests within language and its relationship to dance and dancing, including the material and political implications of this connection.
I make and perform with/ for artists such as Mette Edvardsen, Hana Erdman, Ruarí Donovan, Dora Garcia, Litó Walkey, Yari Stilo and Alice Mackenzie. I hold an MFA in Choreography from University of the Arts Stockholm and a post-graduate qualification from the Royal Academy of Art Stockholm. My work has been presented at Performance Studies International in Aomori, Japan; Museum of Contemporary Art in San Juan, Puerto Rico; and Movement Research in NYC. In 2021, my solo piece “Listening to “ was presented by Cullberg at ‘Explorations of Now’, a project at Orlången nature reserve, Huddinge/Stockholm.
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WHAT DOES THE SITE RESIDENCY ENABLE YOU TO DO?
– This frame of a residency at SITE enables me to dig into my practice which means being with lots of materials, hosting collaborators, making objects and dancing as much as possible!
WHAT ARE YOU WORKING ON RIGHT AT THIS MOMENT?
– I’m working on the question ’what are the different terms in which dance and movement might be remembered and recorded?’ My teacher in exploring this question is Morfa Rhuddlan, a historical folk dance and Lament for which I am a host and dancing practitioner. Morfa Rhuddlan is a dance that historically, individuals and the community requested when they needed to grieve, cry or be somber. You can ask me for the dance when you need it.
HOW WOULD YOU LIKE TO FURTHER DEVELOP DURING YOUR RESIDENCY AT SITE?
– I would like to take time to dig into my own archive, imagine futures, and orient to what is present in my work now.
The image of me here is from a work titled ‘Watching the Label is Teaching Me How to Look’ where Istudy the way in which Ethnographic museums use text to contextualise and re-contextualise the items within their collections, particularly the titles and categorisations and labels. I want to work more with this piece, and in collaboration with the photographer Sandra Vitaljic, who made this image.
I am also looking forward to meeting my fellow INKUBATOR artists and to working alongside them.