CYCLES — LIVE PERFORMANCE
OVERVIEW
Cycles is a live and digital performance and VR experience that explores how gendered behaviours are reinforced through habitual, bodily practices. Set around the dining table — a space where patriarchal norms are deeply embedded — it uses dance and immersive technology to expose the invisible structures of control that shape identity.
The bodies we bring into virtual spaces carry with them the rules of the material world, influencing how we move and relate. By working with immersive tools, Cycles highlights the need for new technologies to critically address the internalised systems they risk replicating and to countermand their power.
The work is created in collaboration with choreographer and dancer Emma Poyer and sound artist Zlata Mechetina.
ROLE
- Created and directed the piece from concept to execution, leading narrative and immersive design
- Managed all production aspects: team coordination, scheduling, budgeting, tech integration, and rehearsals
- Delivered and installed the piece at Frameless, adapting it to a large-scale projection environment
- Acted as liaison between Frameless and RCA: handled branding, space negotiations and tech setup
- Led social media strategy and communications for the RCA show, aligning 70 artists with venue guidelines
Disciplines
Creative direction & choreographic storytelling · Project production & post-production · Spatial & immersive experience design
Questions
- How do bodies reproduce systems of hierarchy and care through movement?
- What happens when these choreographies are re-staged within digital and immersive spaces?
- Can immersive technologies expose — rather than amplify — the inherited power structures embedded in everyday gestures?
Method
Movement-led research combining embodied inquiry, performance direction, and immersive design experimentation. Developed collaboratively through:
- Studio-based phenomenological study (after Susan Kozel)
- Improvisation and repetition as tools for unpacking behavioural patterns in collaboration with dancer and choreographer Emma Poyer
- Co-design sessions between dancers, sound designers, and film artists
- Expansion into 360° VR environments to transfer live embodiment into digital space
Exhibitions & Presentations
- Close-Up Cinema (London) — Control Event, May 2026
- The Hedonists: Immersive Tech Professionals Meetup, hosted by Valkyrie Industries, London, March 2026
