Responsive Residency 2017 at Critical Path Choreographic Research Centre Sydney. A collaboration with Ryuichi Fujimura investigating how the concept and aesthetic Wabi Sabi translates into choreography. Wabi Sabi is the antithesis to consumerism, capitalism and neo liberalism. It is the beauty of things imperfect, impermanent, and incomplete, the antithesis of our classical Western notion of beauty as something perfect, enduring, and monumental. It is the Japanese art of appreciating the beauty in the naturally imperfect world. 

If the qualities of wabi sabi are imperfect, incomplete and impermanent it could be argued that this is an equal description of qualities that are imbued with the natural environment. During this Residency we had a desire as a movement practitioner and dancer with a shared practice to explore how the natural environment effects our bodies and how alternatively our bodies respond to the natural environment creating a choreographic language and landscape.