After making 'New Season'...

A high point, if not the highpoint, of the first six months of this year was making a piece I called New Season for a charity, Morphe Arts, a network for artists who are Christians. It gave me the space to create something that was personal, not about my advocacy work, which was deeply satisfying. I performed it at the organisations National conference in May.

New Season is part testimony, part physical performance, built around the idea of my personal "grace space", a metaphor for prayer. I move between spoken reflection, drama, and structured improvised dance to trace a single emotional arc: a health diagnosis forces me to reckon with stress, ageing, and mortality, which I initially try to solve practically ("lifestyle change") before realising the deeper answer is spiritual. The improvisations function as embodied thinking — the "stress loop" physicalises my rumination, while the dance sequence, triggered by putting on the dress from the suitcase, recovers a childhood memory of moving from England to Nigeria, where dance became a way for me to belong without language. That memory becomes the emotional and thematic hinge of the piece: dance is reframed not as escape but as a form of prayer and healing.

The dynamics in this piece are the dynamics shaping my approach to being a performer this time around. It has a lot to do with slowing down inside even though I moving at great speed from one location to another, one project to another, one story to another...