a dancer with contemporary companies in Australia, with a stint in South East Asia & Japan as a showgirl and 6 years as producer with the One Extra dance company in Sydney, I have been with the Department of Theatre & Performance Studies at the University of Sydney, where I am a Senior Lecturer, since 2003. My teaching focuses on performance in the everyday and theories of embodiment. Phd students under my supervision examine(d) intercultural performance; dance, technology and dramaturgy; Australian dance history; creative reconstruction and historiography; ballet and the transnational transfer of 'style'; butoh in Australia; oral history and the performing state; queer performance; place and performance; salsa and flamenco. My latest research is on/for: women in modern dance in Australia (1920s to 1940s) (a book); the influence of Indian, African, African-American and Afro-Caribbean dance on Australia performance during the 1950s and 1960s (an article); the appropriation of Indigenous dance in Australia and the United States, concentrating on the work of Rex Reid, Beth Dean, Ted Shawn and Reginald & Gladys Laubin ( book); the influence of Pina Bausch on Australian dance since the 1980s (research project with WAPPA); Sonja Revid, a Mary Wigman trained dancer who migrated to Melbourne in 1932 (a book)