Photo: Pari Naderi
Vision
In creation I work with extended movement improvisations where I use music to manipulate and direct the atmosphere. I spend hours creating playlists of music to use to provoke drama, dancing and a kind of theatrical chaos. I’m like a deejay playing the crowd.
I love creating from chaos although I think this offers a particular set of challenges to the performers when trying to discover both a physical and psychological logic. I need and trust them to make sense of things.
The studio becomes a partner and I think about it always as a kind of architectural site. I’m inspired by the dancers instincts and responses in the given moment and I am constantly investigating ways in which the dancing connects to narrative and intention. I try and work from an emotional place.
Dance and theatre for me is all about expression and observation. It’s how I have managed to navigate my way through this world as a human being.
My drive is to create cinematic, physically driven work which interrogates and expresses the complexities of the human condition.
Current Works
Sleep No More, Seoul
Taking Punchdrunk’s work to Asia for the second time, Punchdrunk International and Ms Jackson production company have co-produced a version of the iconic Sleep No More. This version of the original production plays out across seven floors with epic design, light and sound innovations.
Sleep no More, Shanghai
The McKinnon Hotel, Shanghai
Following productions in London, Boston and New York, Shanghai’s Sleep No More tells Shakespeare’s classic tragedy Macbeth through a darkly cinematic lens. Audiences move freely through the epic story, creating their own journeys through a film noir world.
The Lady in Pink Tights
Presented by the Dart Dance Company, The Lady in Pink Tights premiered at the Pfefferberg Theater, Berlin in March 2025.