About

Pauline is a multidisciplinary theatremaker based in the North. Originally from London, she began her dance training at the Weekend Arts College and continued with ballet and contemporary dance at the Rambert School, London. Pauline’s dance career spans 15 years, dancing, teaching and taking the role of rehearsal director for contemporary dance choreographers and companies across the UK including David Hamilton, Janet Smith and Dancers, Diversions Dance, Phoenix Dance Company, The Ensemble Group and Tees Dance Initiative.

In 2011, Pauline diversified her practice to include theatre and writing. This led to collaborations with Red Ladder Theatre Company on Promised Land and Tell Tale Hearts Children’s Theatre’s Yummm! In 2013, Pauline was the lead artist on her first full evening work Burmantofts Stories, a site specific outdoor piece made with the Burmantofts community and produced with the Leeds Playhouse as part of their Transform season. In 2017 Pauline was Associate Director on the Leeds Playhouse’s Queen of Chapeltown working alongside director Amy Leach.

Pauline’s interest is in reframing spaces and histories through experential art and culture to help her audiences re-examine shared histories and enable lost voices to be heard. Her work has themes of identity, participation, intimacy and care. Pauline’s critically acclaimed solo show 2017’s What If I Told You (WIITY) is a work Lyn Gardener of the Guardian describes as ‘shakes up traditional theatre and power structures to put the audience in the picture’. WIITY is a co-production with the Leeds Playhouse. The show toured to theatres throughout the U.K. including Manchester Royal Exchange, Leeds Playhouse and the Barbican, London. WIITY was featured in British Vogue, Time Out, The Stage and The Scotsman and was presented at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2017 where it was a shortlisted nominee for the Amnesty International Freedom of Expression Award.

Pauline has collaborated with over 200 arts organisations, schools and universities across the U.K. as a facilitator of workshops and masterclasses.

Pauline is also a public speaker and artist provocateur whose work in these fields has seen her partner with organisations including Leeds 2023, Serendipity, Leeds Dance Partnerships, Space Two and One Dance U.K.

Pauline’s writing The Geography of A Dancer is featured in the anthology Weighted Words published by Peepal Tree Press and edited by Jacob Ross (2021)

Pauline is an Open Space facilitator with Improbable Theatre, London

Pauline is an Associate Artist with the Leeds Playhouse.