Sweet Labour Art Collective is an artistic collaboration led by artists Ruth Douthwright and Kevin O-Connor.

Performance Creation/Research, Dance/Somatics, Practice/Theory

The Choreography of Care is a collaborative tribute honouring the perseverance, dedication and sacrifice of all frontline workers, with a special focus on healthcare. The short film features real-life healthcare professionals performing familiar, everyday routines with novel purpose, to the everyday sounds of their work environment. The Choreography of Care highlights the communities of support within healthcare, the diversity and resilience of the people, putting a human face to a place where many are feeling forgotten. It is an homage to what it means to be a frontline worker in 2021 and beyond.

JrifterS is a dance collective, co-created with Jen-Yi-Hum.

SOMATIC GYM is an online gym to integrate and train your mindfully alive body through movement. Somatics, referring to the living body, is a way of attending to your unique body through movement practices that support resiliency, curiosity, and attentiveness, while also cultivating awareness of any tension producing habits.

In this gym there are many guides, leading you through different somatic practices: There is something for everyone. In this gym we start with the premise of possibility. What possibilities exist in you? We are not interested in universal accounts of what bodies are or what they can do. Our guides will offer different movement practises that enact relations in many different ways so you can explore the pleasure of crafting flexible moving bodyminds particular to you.

Opening in Summer 2025.