He has worked with performance at small and large-scales in theatre, gallery and site-based contexts in the UK and internationally. Recent projects (23/24) include Supernature, a solo created with Siobhan Davies in response to her film Transparent at Wainsgate Chapel; Scáling, a duet with Markéta Stránska co-commissioned by Candoco and Sadlers Wells at Schwere Reiter (more coming up in 2025): HERD – a large-scale site-specific sound project with Artichoke and Orlando Gough across multiple sites in Yorkshire; and Anushiye Yarnell’s A Marathon of Intimacies at Chapter in Cardiff; Golberg Variations – a tribute to Steve Paxton with Lucy Suggate at Wainsgate Chapel.
His work is influenced and inspired by long-term working relationships with artists including Steve Paxton, Lisa Nelson, Scott Smith, K.J.Holmes, Kirstie Simson, Karen Nelson, Siobhan Davies, Katye Coe, Andrea Buckley, Lucy Suggate and many others.
Contact Improvisation Festival - Intensive
Continued Adventures of the Apple
We will notice how we notice, and question how we expand our range of what we can become aware of as we move – on our own and with other bodies in space.
The materials we will work are in dialogue with, and draw inspiration and instruction from, Steve Paxton’s Material for the Spine, Lisa Nelson’s Tuning Scores and my own researches in movement, performance and teaching.
We will fall and rise, and pour and expand; and float and fly; tumble and suspend; twist and curve – we will make experiments in what it means to exist as small bodies in relation the larger body of the earth, and play with how that relationship provides the conditions for a vast realm of simple and complex movement to occur.
Our moving will be supported by anatomical maps and pathways to explore; experiments in physical/imaginative/
Contact Improvisation into Performance - Intensive
Moving, Seeing and Being Seen
We will use improvisational scores and practices to explore different ways in which movement arises and is developed through interaction, and we will play with ways in which we invite being seen in that process. We will question how we might engage with being seen as a means of supporting and amplifying the substance and materiality of our actions.
The work is fed by Charlie’s work with Steve Paxton’s Material For the Spine as a resource for and approach to thinking movement, and with Lisa Nelson’s Tuning Scores as tools for group composition. The workshop is also fed by his studies and research in performance, composition and different approaches to body/mind relationships.
This workshop will be an opportunity to dive into an intensive few days of expanded moving and performing practice where perception, action, and the firing of our imaginations will be our materials.