Lecture Descriptions

ReWilding Attention: Presence Communicates
The Key is Presence
This talk is a journey into and through questions that arise because we, as dancers do much more than merely move our bodies in interesting ways. We also move our attention within each micro-moment of body-based action, and this changes how we are present in and to the world, how we experience, and how we are experienced by others. In this talk, we will explore what dance, especially dance improvisation, has to reveal about human experience in a world from which we are never separate, always entangled, always changing. This lecture ties dance and life, revealing the secrets behind extraordinary performance, as well as the generosity of physical communication. 

Most Recent Presentation:
February 2025
The MARCS Institute of Brain, Behaviour & Development,
Western Sydney University,
NSW Australia

Being One & Being Many: Ensemble Dancing Through the Lens of CI
Since dance is an embodied art of Space and Time, it matters how we experience our relations within our physical form, and beyond it. Embodiement, an idea living in the body, is the mind acting inseparably as the body, shaping and organizing how it behaves and knows the world. In this talk we deconstruct our embodied states to understand the potentials of moving together, across differences inherent in being human. Key to our discovery will be the attentional skills of always being more than merely one. What we learn from duets and ensembles, are skills that allow us to physically experience our partnerships as ourselves, engaging mindfulness as a collective being danced.  

Upcoming Presentation:
April 2026
New York University of Shanghai
Shanghai, China

Scoring Embodied Attention as a Dance Research Methodology
When dance is engaged as a research methodology into  the human experience of communication, we utilize “scores,” rules that frame an experience, in order to focus on it. In this talk, we will study how physical attention is framed in order to better understand how dancers communicate with one another in milli-seconds of felt engagement when duet movement happens, from holding hands to extraordinary acts of coordinated physical grace.