Just a few months ago we collaborated with the internationally renowned Scotia Festival of Music, Nova Scotia dance presenter Live Art Dance Productions and the Canada Council for the Arts to produce an epic residency in Halifax.

Thirteen years after I spent a year teaching at Mimar Sinan Conservatory in Istanbul, a former student, and now professor of dance, invited me to conduct a three-week teaching and performance residency.

2011/12 was a year of new ventures in university collaborations. I jumped into the academic sphere quite literally when I delivered an academic response to Susan Foster’s latest work while half naked and performing a choreographic summary of “So You Think You Can Dance.”

Writing a Book: After teaching in higher education for 20 years I have started a book on the possibilities and problems of teaching dance technique.