Artist Bio
My work articulates the space between research and arts practice. Engaging creative methodologies and movement based practices from theatre-making with the theoretical frameworks from performance studies, I experiment with different modes, attending and attuning to the interplay between self-other-enviroment, exploring various platforms to discover the best form to support, develop and communicate the research within a given project. Interweaving my work as a Somatic Movement Educator along with creative arts practice and traditional scholarship results in a diverse practice as a writer and artist that integrates and cross-pollinates these realms. My unique background and approach has resulted in arts-based research projects, installations, performance experiments, essays in international journals, book chapters and video essays. This experimental and creative approach continues to evolve and offer performance possibilities.

I work as a lecturer in the Department of Theatre, School of Film, Music & Theatre at University College Cork. From my background in theatre historiography, dramatic literature, theory, feminism and visual culture, my current research lives between embodied practices and theoretical understandings of performance. I explore this interdisciplinary terrain through the somatic practice of Body-Mind Centering (BMC) which offers an embodied ground to her theoretical and media based work. I completed my Somatic Movement Educator certification in BMC with Embody-Move Association in the UK with support from UCC and The Arts Council of Ireland. BMC has been highly influential and innovative in the field of Dance, part of my ongoing research is to examine how this mode can be applied to theatre and performance.