The power of voice as a tool in movement emerged as a part of a research process in my masters. In attempting to create a character, I found that communication was possible from the viscera through sound, beyond words. This took me deeper to explore the relationship between breath, voice and body, not just as a dancer, but also as a musician.

Taking this research to resonant spaces, I ended up in the ancient cave of mount Parnassus, Coricion. For the next 6 months, I would explore the power of shamanic work through its use of the drum and rhythm, and Ancient Greek rituals based on the durational process of the Eleusinian mysteries. This and an encounter with a photographer inevitably this brought me to Joseph Campbell's work 'Hero with a thousand faces'. I started to delve deeper into the connection between sound, psyche and movement. Inevitably, in the shadow, elements such as the collective unconscious and trauma trapped in the body, arose. These were met with the creative tools to create work that spoke from a place beyond mind. 

In a research phase with 5 performers, leading to the show We could be Heroes, the tools I used became more refined and a means to create artistic work that lies close to the abstract world of the subconscious.   

This for me as a dancer was very important as in current dance practices we simply label this kind of work as therapy rather than art, severing it from its artistic results, and often dichotomizing the two processes as if the psyche could ever be diminished of all of its aspects. Potentially in this way also diminishing the power of the art of dance. 

As a dancer, this revelation was crucial. In contemporary dance practices, we often label this kind of work as therapy rather than art, creating an artificial divide between therapeutic results of artistic processes and artistic processes, as if the psyche could ever be compartmentalized in a creative process. This dichotomy potentially diminishes the transformative power of dance as an art form. 

For me this practice  bridges sound, movement and the psyche into one creative and holistic experience.