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About

ABOUT ME

Born in 2001, Johannesburg, South Africa. Based in Vienna, Austria.

Master of Drama, 2024-2025, University of Pretoria

Bachelor of Arts Honours in Drama and Film Studies, 2023, University of Pretoria

Bachelor of Drama, 2020-2022, University of Pretoria

L/BMS Laban Movement Analysis Intro Intensive (Susanne Montag-Wärnå CLMA)

Interdisciplinary/Artistic Research

In_Between_Lines (Pretoria, Vienna, 2024-2025)

 
Performance/Movement/Hybrid

The Memories We Keep are the Ones Stuck to the Soles of Our Feet (Javett Art Centre, Pretoria, 2023)

Cycles (Lier Theatre & TUT Arts Festival, Pretoria, 2023)

Attempts On Her Life (Lier Theatre, Pretoria, 2023)

Amahemhem (Javett Art Centre, Pretoria, 2023)

Headlines (Bok Theatre, Pretoria, 2022)

(Dis-) (Javett Art Centre, Pretoria, 2022)

Cornucopia (Masker Theatre/Edoardo Villa Museum, Pretoria, 2021)

Voracities (National Arts Festival, Makhanda, 2021)

 
Theatre

An Innocent Little Murder (Lier Theatre, Pretoria, 2023)

When Swallows Cry (Lier Theatre, Pretoria, 2023)

Die Twaalfuurwals (Lier Theatre, Pretoria, 2022)

The Fall (Masker Theatre, Pretoria, 2022)

Siener in die Suburbs (Bok Theatre, Pretoria, 2021)

Ubu and the Truth Commission (Masker Theatre, Pretoria, 2021)

10 Ways to Survive the Zombie Apocalypse (Masker Theatre, Pretoria, 2020)

A Streetcar Named Desire (Masker Theatre, Pretoria, 2020)

Land van Skedels (Aardklop National Arts Festival, Potchefstroom, 2013)

I am a performance-based artist and artistic researcher whose work moves through intersections of dramaturgy, identity, and space-time concepts. My practice unfolds between the body and its surrounding environments, tracing the residues of borders or the in-between of times and spaces.

The construction of my work begins through acts of collecting gestures, fragments, and remnants of space. These become entry points into a process of layering, erasing, and recomposing, where the boundaries between disciplines and individual materials begin to blur. Instead, boundaries can be displaced to view creation and the world through a different lens: one that is fluid, relational, and open to transformation.

I often weave text, movement, film, projection, visual art, and embodied processes to form hybrid compositions. These works emerge as sites of reflection and encounter, as spaces where traces of the personal and political intersect.

Guided by decolonial thought and performance philosophy, my practice and research explores how knowledge is carried through the body and matter, and how performance can open other ways of sensing, knowing, and being-with the world. 

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