Writing/Events
2025
Dance Research Matters Festival, invited panel member on the current and future role of dance research journals. Organised by the Centre for Dance Researcj (Coventry University), 10-11 July 2025. Blog post on LinkedIn: Here.
Skatepark Allyship, part of group exhibition, ‘Playgrounds’ at Gloam Gallery, Sheffield. June 28 - July 20 2025.
Courageous Programming workshop delivered in collaboration with the Cultural Institute, University of Leeds. 18th June 2025.
Workshop on resilience and solidarity in times of crisis - invited panel member, European Festivals Association, Arts Festivals Summit 2025, held in Edinburgh 27-30 April.
We need Intimacy Coordinators and Directors on set as standard - blog post on LinkedIn: Here.
2024
Voices of Resilience, presented at Barbican Centre, London, 14 Sep 2024
Voices of Resilience, presented at the Edinburgh International Book Festival, 18 Aug 2024
Voices of Resilience, presented at HOME, Mcr - 22 April 2024
‘How Does The UK Silence It’s Citizens? The Case of Pro-Palestine Voices in 2024’ - Talk alongside Ra Page and David Renton, hosted by Abbey Heffer on her YouTube channel Authoritarianism 101: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3bRHS9HY638&t=39s
2023
Palestinian Performance and Resistance. Invited to deliver a paper for Sumud Edinburgh, online, 19th Dec. 2023
Palestinian Performance and Resistance. Invited to give talk at the Leeds Palestine Film Festival, Heart Centre, Leeds, 24th Nov. 2023.
2022
‘Participant-Centred skateboarding in the West Bank, occupied Palestine: An Analysis of the Work of SkatePal’ in Jim Cherrington and Jack Black (Eds.), Sport and Physical Activity in Catastrophic Environments. London: Routledge, 193-208.
with Whalley, J.B. (2022), ‘Not pressure: A conversation between Dani Abulhawa and Joanne ‘Bob’ Whalley’ in Choreographic Practices 12(2), 153-164.
‘Porous Choreographies of Living and Dancing’ [editorial] in Choreographic Practices 13(1), 3-8.
Skateboarding and Femininity: Porous Choreographies of Living and Dancing. Invited to deliver paper for Ghent University, Belgium, S:PAM (Studies in Performing Arts and Media), Online, 10th Nov. 2022.
Expert bodies: Performance and Palestinian resistance to the ongoing settler-colonisation of Palestinian land. Invited to deliver paper for the University of Glasgow, Glasgow Theatre Seminars, Online, 27th Jan. 2022.
2021
“Not pressure: A conversation between Dani Abulhawa and Joanne ‘Bob’ Whalley” (2021) in Choreographic Practices Journal, 12(2), 153-164.
Concord, performance presented at the Holden Gallery, Mcr, 22 Oct 2021
2020
‘Skill-less Tricks: A score for moving through walls’ in Choreographic Practices Journal, 11(2).
‘Sonia Boyce & The Skateboarding Scene of Digbeth, Birmingham’, Vague, Issue 18, Dec 2020.
‘Laura Thornhill-Caswell Interview’, Vague, Issue 14, May 2020.
Skateboarding and Femininity: Gender, Space-Making and Expressive Movement, London, Routledge, 2020.
‘Feint Lines: Notes on the Creation of a Skateboard Choreography’, Urban Pamphleteer, 8, 2020.
2019
Symbolic, Expressive Movement: Why Skateboarding in the Street is Important. Invited to deliver a paper at Site Gallery, Sheffield as part of their City of Ideas, Spaces for Creation programme, 14th Nov. 2019
2018
Skateboarding, Performance and Palestine - On the Art of Practising Freedom. Invited to deliver a paper at Human Rights Futures, Sheffield Hallam University, 12th Dec. 2018
2017
‘Smoothing Space in Palestine: Building a skatepark and a socio-political forum with the SkatePal charity’ in Journal of Urban Cultural Studies, 4(3).
'(En)gendering ‘Undisciplined’ Space: Reflections on Accumulations’s Curation of ‘Precarious Assembly’' (written in collaboration with Sara Spies) in Ashton, J. (ed.) Feminism & Museums. Museums Etc.
2016
‘Locating Rhythms: Improvised Play in the Built Environment’ in M. Maclean, W. Russell, and E. Ryall (eds.) Philosophical Perspectives on Play
‘Knowledgeable Artefacts: The role of performance documentation in PaR’ in Networking Knowledge: Journal of the MeCCSA Postgraduate Network, 9(3)
'"Crack on Wheels" Barbara Odanaka: Skateboard Moms and Sisters of Shred' Girl Skate UK
2015
'SkatePal Palestine Skatepark: Building Palestine's Biggest Skatepark' (written in collaboration with Joshua Perkin) Sidewalk
‘To Be Helmshore: Navigating the undercurrents of landscape and history’ in Leighton-Boyce, H. The Event of the Thread
2008
'Female Skateboarding: Re-writing Gender’ in Platform eJournal of Theatre and Performing Arts, 3(1), 56-72