Thanks for visiting. I’m a mover, choreographer, movement director, facilitator, and dramaturg working across a wide range of settings and landscapes.
Grief Floats (2021-2023) – Director & Choreographer
Grief Floats is a protest, an honouring, a remembering.
It is a long term project which will offer ways of reconnecting the mind and body during times of grief through workshops, discussions and performances.
The performance is set in the North Sea, Grief Floats will be Company of Others’ first outdoor work premiering August 23 at Cullercoats Bay, North Tyneside.
‘They looked like they were returning to the sea’
R&D audience member
Image: Luke Waddington
Protest (2023) – Movement Director
Three girls prepare to stand up for what they believe in despite the injustices stacked against them in this new play exploring what it takes to make a difference, the power of friendship, and the importance of believing in your own voice.
Co-commissioned by Fuel, Imaginate and Northern Stage.
‘This constant movement itself feels revolutionary: a bold reclamation of the physicality of girls, before they are socialised into stillness (praise due to movement director Nadia Iftkhar).’ The Stage Review 🌟🌟🌟🌟
Dir. Natalie Ibu
Image: Kirsty MacLaren, Tamara Fairbairn and Esmé Kingdom in Protest at Northern Stage. Photo by Oluwatosin Daniju
STRE-TCH Creative Lab (2022) – Co-Facilitator, The Work Room
A professional development intensive for artists with an established community dance practice. A space for sharing practice, creative collaboration and enabling connections. It is hosted by The Work Room (Scotland) on behalf of the Keðja network of European dance organisations.
Image: Harry Elletson
Dawaat (2021) – Movement Director, Tara Theatre
A pop-up birthday feast across London for the eyes, ears and the taste buds, that ultimately asks what it means to be of Bangladeshi heritage in the UK today. Working closely with Bangladeshi diaspora communities in London.
Dir. Abdul Shayek
Image: Harry Elletson
Road (2021) – Movement Director, Northern Stage
Protest, poetry, lust and grit. A vibrant, funny and moving show celebrating community and the incredible resilience of the human spirit. This dynamic portrait of working class life shows us the moments of extraordinary in the ordinary.
Dir. Natalie Ibu
Image: Wasi Daniju
Penguin (2021-23) – Movement Director, Curious Monkey
‘Penguin’ is a one-man show by Hamzeh Al-Hussein and Curious Monkey that started development in 2019.
Penguin will premiere in September 23, at Live Theatre, Newcastle before touring the UK. Tickets available here: https://www.live.org.uk/whats-on/penguin
Dir. Amy Golding
dare you: Question The Love Between Girls (2020-21) – Director & Dramaturg, for film
dare you: Question The Love Between Girls lives in the depths of discomfort, relentlessness and defiance. This duet seeks to challenge the painful and uncomfortable parts that come with being a queer woman.
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In The Ink Dark (2019) – Performer and Collaborator
Dreamt as a living poem, it is a wander along the water, a seat beside someone on a bench, a conversation, a landscape of words written with bodies, a space for you to reflect, remember, imagine, in honour of things loved and lost.
Creator. Luke Pell
Image: Brian Hartley