Unfinished Business

Over the last 30 years I have moved through being a performer of physical theatre and dance theatre to directing and choreographing both my own work and pieces by other artists in the fields of physical theatre, live art and spoken word. I have worked with numerous artists, musicians, performers, directors and dancers and have facilitated processes for non artists, emerging artists, elderly people, businesses, people with special needs and established artists. I started my own company Unfinished Business alongside producer and company manager Anna Mitch 12 years ago. Within this company structure I have worked with a variety of performative tools and forms and explored themes of mental health, human capacity for change, the ills of isolation in contemporary urban living, community building, and space and time for digestion within our 24/7 work culture dominant in contemporary western society. Over the last 10 years I have moved more and more towards participatory experience and away from performing or directing work on stages. I have become fascinated by how to engage audience or participants in authentic interaction. My work has for sometime been flirting with food as a central element. The offering of food as a deep exchange and act of generosity. The production and consumption of food as a fundamental creative and community based act. The sharing of food as an act of love and the alchemical transformation that occurs within the processing of food as a metaphor and example of human capacity for nourishing change and magic. Now my work sits somewhere between a ritual, a workshop and a dialogical performance experience. I make spaces for people to be together, to share their hopes and their difficulties and to experience themselves as creative emergent beings. Within the context of WorkTripp I offer my 30 years of experience as a teacher and facilitator. I believe in the transformational power within collective action and wish to offer space for community building, for joy and for satisfying acts of creativity.