Why Dancenorth Residency?

• Opportunity to grow and extend my practice, what I’ve found it gave me time to reflect on my
  processes, opportunities to refine and think about adapting new methods of approach. To
  invest and maintain new and old relationships.

Who Am I?

• I am both individual and community, the face of the individual is one of personal conflict, maybe
  not at face value, but certainly internal, ie. I may value Christian ideals and Cultural values but I
  find I struggle to follow them, also I don’t want to be limited and constrained by various orders
  and ideals. As a community person I’m describing what is my motivation, though sometimes I am
  torn and my love can be fractured in following through with these ideals too.

Why I do what I do?

• I’ve found when making performance art allows me the flexibility and space to explore other
  mediums that collectively sit in the framework of Performance (dance, sound, sculpture,
  installation, text). Art to me was known as a gift, it is in my family DNA, though something I
  never took serious, though I had to find a purpose and reason to create. Art became not only
  about making “Aboriginal Art” but about an Aboriginal making art that is purposeful. I’ve
  learned to value identity, my ancestral spiritualities, stories and rich diverse cultures.

What Am I doing when I perform? What is happening?

• The type of dance, performance style I do I call it ‘Artist Movement’ a deep ritualised theatrical
  play in particular space and time.
• I feel I am like a medium a vehicle to channel the voice of Spirit, the voice and concern of
  ancestral spirit beings, the super natural – God, the voice of our ancestors, the laws that
  sustained and maintain the many groups of the Aboriginal peoples of Australia and the lands
  they originated from.
• Voicing concerns whilst opposing suppressive ideals, attitudes and action.
• Learning and being informed by the process and the evolution of my practice.