I am a dance artist based in Glasgow. My movement practice emerged from the convergence of my research in Human Geography, specifically embodied social geographies, and my lifelong enjoyment and interest in dance. My current interests include reptile embodiment, back-up dancing, postmodern movement scores and erotic performance.

During my residency at Studio Somewhere, I was developing choreography and text for a dance-drama about Desert Grassland Whiptail Lizards in collaboration with Josie Perry. Whiptail Lizards are an all-female species that reproduce without fertilization, but still stimulate each other in order to encourage ovulation. This has earned the species the reputation of ‘lesbian lizards,’ with many articles describing their sex as “pseudo copulation”. Humoured by these cis-heteronormative descriptions of queer sex, this performance work will draw parallels between the narration of Whiptail Lizards’ sex and depictions of lesbian sex in mainstream pornography. Embodying references from pop culture, cinema and porn, we will imagine the Whiptail Lizard population as an all-lesbian fantasy world, in which the male gaze and the fetishization of lesbians can be purposively enacted and reconfigured as a kink dynamic within queer sex. 

Funded through our 2022 Autumn Residencies Scheme.