Select Interviews

Interview I did with the author Luke Jennings about his recent book for On Substack (Substack’s owned newsletter, which I ran), 2024. I did many more unbylined interviews like this for Substack from 2022-2024.

Interview with Bob Dunning for Substack about his newsletter, 2024.

Interview with digital curator Mia Q for Tell Their Stories, 2024.

Interview with Michael MacLeod about his career and newsletter for Substack, 2024.

The Active Voice podcast, which I produced from 2022-2024.

Example product update post I did for Substack from 2022-2024.

Select Features

Miscarriage and the Workplace, Miscarriage Association UK, 2020.

Meet The Illustrator Behind London's Pride Wall, British Vogue, 2017.

Newsroom social editor, 2011-2013, the Guardian. Select features from this time:

Alan Rusbridger reddit AMA: Things we learned’, The Guardian, 2013

‘Pinterest piqued in UK for 'creative, pretty and completist' social network,’ The Guardian, 2021.

‘Pinterest: You’ll never be bored with a board,’ The Guardian, 2012.

News blog: An update to news comments - what do you think?, The Guardian, 2012.

Strictly Come Dancing, The Guardian, TV&Culture blogger, 2012.

Interview with Carlos Acosta, The Guardian, Cardiff Local blog, beatblogger 2010-2011.

Interview with Birmingham Royal Ballet’s Tom Rogers, WestMidlandsDance.com, site editor 2009-2010.

Kashmir Leese on the origins of hip hop, WestMidlandsDance.com, site editor 2009-2010.

Instagram Blog Selects

Instagram (writer, editor, producer, 2013-2016):

• #WhyIMove, six posts

  • #whyimove with @iamdytto

Author + editor of a new series for @instagram featuring dancers and choreographers from across the globe exploring about the emotional quality dance and performance.

• #HelloMyNameIs with @scolerina

• Demystifying the Ballet World with @ericunderwood

• Telling Stories Without Words with @omarzrobles

• Exploding into the Air with @jacobjonasthecompany

• How I Shoot: @darian_volkova’s Dancers

• Art— Richard Tuttle’s “I Don’t Know . The Weave of Textile Language”

• Photography—Scottish photographer @kirandodds, A Poetic Take on Scotland’s Landscapes with @jamwrights

• Design—interview with @malikafavre

• Video—Creating Mini-Documentaries of the Day with Gerik Parmele

• Craft—Extreme Pumpkin Carving with @jon_neill

• Travel—Spotlight on Romania

• Small business— London’s @globemakers keep an old tradition alive

• Teens— Finding My Own Voice to Make a Difference, by @gallagher_anais

• Series—#WhyIMove, eg with @iamdytto, #hashtaghighlight

Select Reviews

Art Wednesday, freelance contributor, 2012-2015: Arts and Culture online magazine, no longer online. Some archived reviews here.

• The Rodin Project, Russell Maliphant

• Sutra, Sidi Larbi Cherkeoui & Antony Gormley

• Two Cigarettes in the Dark, Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch company

• The Great Gatsby, Northern Ballet

The Guardian, select contributions from 2010-2013:

• The Factory, Earthfall

• Revelations, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater

• Double Bill and Dance Roads, Welsh Independent Dance

• Cruel, Companhia de Danca

• Magia de la Danza Ballet Nacional De Cuba

WalesOnline, dance blogger, 2008-2009. Some archived blogposts here.

Birmingham Post and Mail, dance blogger, 2008. Some archived posts here.