I help people develop their creative ideas into live shows and performances. As someone who employs the arts to manage my mental health, I am a champion for achieving wellbeing through art.
Authentic Creativity is a course that inspires participants to embrace their creativity, apply creativity to problem-solving, discover creative confidence, find joy in collaboration, and develop authentic forms of expression.
It is comprised of 5 lessons:
Lesson 1: Considering Your Creativity
Lesson 2: Your Creative Potential
Lesson 3: Your Unique Form of Expression
Lesson 4: Nurturing Creativity in Collaboration
Lesson 5: Sustaining Creativity
With a PhD in archival performance, Aletia’s performance practice is situated in cabaret and performance activism. She is also a singer-songwriter, vintage songstress, painter and educator.
Aletia is an interdisciplinary artist-researcher with a practice situated in the performing archives, autobiographical, verbatim, postdramatic, and participatory-immersive performance frameworks, who investigates the subjective archives of the audience-participants through intercultural, interlingual, sculptural performances imbued with music, poetry, and puppetry.
For her PhD, she performed the documents of ephemeral events in the Richard Demarco Archive. The methodologies she created, which include using verbatim (from qualitative interviews) as song lyrics, can be applied universally in archival performance making. As a result of her PhD, her interpretation of ‘the archive’ evolved to signify personal archives and seeing our memories as well as our bodies as our archives. In this way, her research ventured into the areas of mental health awareness and applied theatre. Read her PhD on the Portfolio page.
Current projects: Upstairs with Doctor Woof, Disordered, Simpatico (with Godfrey Johnson).
She teaches practice-as-research methodologies, interdisciplinarity and alternative dramaturgies, Post-Dramatic Performance (Tadeusz Kantor and related practitioners), and Dramaturgies of the Real: Autobiographical Performance and Verbatim (Bertolt Brecht and related practitioners), as well as Performance Making, Devising, and Acting for Stage and Screen.
Her skills have been acknowledged in 5-star reviews for ‘A Queer Love of Dix’ at The Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2018 and for ‘The Artist as Explorer’ at The Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 2017. She was awarded the Kantor Demarco award for ‘Emballage’ in 2016. In 2015 she won a PhD scholarship to Leeds Beckett University and in 2009 she won a scholarship to The International Cabaret Conference at Yale.
In addition to five solo cabaret shows, and numerous collaborations, she has composed and produced four solo albums and her original music is available on all online platforms. In 2020 and 2021 she was involved in online performance collaborations and started her site-responsive activist performance practice. She has contributed chapters to acting and performance art handbooks.
