A conversation with JD Kelley on my ritual performance Visitation, and the process of its creation.
On the enmeshing of earthly and celestial bodies, from the transgressing angels of 1 Enoch to the potential futures of the body.
Tracing the haunted kinaesthetic and psychic territories of the sabbat through a history of disorderly movement, unruly bodies and heterodox spiritual expression.
On the role of visionary states in my choreographic process. Visionary states of consciousness are embodied states.
On the sexed and sexual mysteries at the heart of the magical and creative process.
The liminality of performer and performance space, and their relationship in presencing the invisible reality – the other, sacred or daimonic.
I am a dancer; my body is the material for my art, and movement is my practice, the medium of dance. Movement arises mysteriously, at the very source of life and before even a self forms …
On cultivating the occult anatomy through dance, and the relation of poietic language and the imaginal to movement and spirit work.
The ecstatic female mystic sought communion with the divine; the witch was her infernal mirror, willing congress with the devil; between these the demoniac stands ambiguously.