I’ve been thinking a lot about trauma – how it affects us and how it’s passed on. Trauma nearly consumed my mother and, unfortunately, it was a major trauma that led to her eventual, slow and painful death. My mother…
Turning Grief into Art
Turning Grief into Art Hello friends! As many of you know my mother passed away last December. I believe firmly in turning my pain into something, hopefully, beautiful and powerful and I’m now working on an intimate and immersive piece…
Processing grief into art
Last year in December, while my mother’s health was quickly declining and while I was in the middle of devising a new show I had a vision of a movement dance piece inspired by my relationship with my mother. It’s…
The Phoenix
Your life was pain and suffering trauma after trauma but you continued living molested as a child abused by a husband you lived in your car raped stabbed left for dead a broken jaw by a boyfriend used abused and…
Phantom Pain
Whenever I have something to share I want to reach out to you and then I remember that you… the phantom pain awakens and it clenches its tentacles around my chest my throat squeezing tears from my eyes then it…