SOLO TOURING VISION
My long-term professional aim is to tour original solo performances nationally and internationally. I want to build a practice that is not only sustainable for me as an artist but also collaborative in spirit, one that creates opportunities to connect with other solo performers and develop shared touring models.
Why solo work?
Solo performance allows me to work with concentration, intimacy and formal clarity. It places responsibility directly on the performer’s body, making presence, rhythm, labour and transformation visible in real time. For me, solo work is not isolation; it is a precise form through which personal, political and cultural questions can be held with immediacy.
Why touring?
Touring keeps the work alive. It creates opportunities to test performance across different spaces, audiences and cultural contexts, while also building dialogue with artists, programmers and communities. I am interested in touring not only as circulation, but as research: a way of learning what the work becomes when it meets different rooms.
My artistic vision is rooted in the belief that performance is one of the most powerful ways we come to understand ourselves and each other. I create work from lived experience, instinct, family, community, movement, music, and the stories carried in the body. I am interested in identity as something constantly shifting, shaped by memory, inheritance, pressure, courage, contradiction, and choice. Through solo performance, storytelling, and collective creative spaces, I want to translate what is deeply personal into something shared.
My work is influenced by the physical and musical energy of the gospel church, by the bravery of those who speak even when they may be challenged, and by the people who continue trying to make meaning out of life, no matter how difficult that task may be. I believe performance can hold complexity through simplicity. It can allow us to see multiple truths at once, to recognise where we come from, and to imagine who else we might become.
At the centre of my vision is a desire to create platforms for performers at every stage of their journey. I want to build spaces where artists can perform for minutes or for hours, in front of paying audiences or in front of each other, and still feel that their work matters. I want to support a culture where performers can test ideas, take risks, witness one another, and keep their craft alive through doing. Big or small, polished or in process, the act of performing has value.
The vision is to use my own experience to create work and opportunities that invite others in, not through hierarchy but through shared commitment, presence, and play. I want to keep building spaces where people can do what they love, keep discovering who they are, and keep performing.