Ainslie Allan

. _ when I was in Lutruwita, I ~ ached ~ for the @tone.list community and turns out that was not a misguided feeling. ! tis very very good to have returned to / experimenting // improvising // building ways of being together \\ (eating excellent croissants 🥐) etcetc.* 🤓 congrats to ALL for AE-| audible edge |festival 2026 <<[hard to believe that dreammm weekend was already 2 wks ago]>> and happiest hooray for TEN }10{ years of TL ! . . . i wrote a poetic essay {[titled: when im away, my body. Remembers.}] to help celebrate the ToneList double digits birthday, then performed it live w.Line6 ))wild((! it was a loopy sincere fizzy fun/ny afternoon . . @jlfeakes cried I think> 🥹 grateful for the invite/editing via @anniikamoses / @__pb_________ ,, proud my name joins this list-mix of brilliant ppl friends writing &—+ may.be . sure.ly our words combined immortalise something special . . >. _ - listening widely deeply and getting seriously into ‘the business of being a weirdo’ (ref: mird) is a gReAttt way to live I think! (also gr8 that everyone-everywhere-allatonce seems 2be wearing @young______________1 Ae merch 🔥😎 -_ teaser pics provided yeh {]including glimpse of beloved @wwimfest ‘s zine[} but GO BUY THE TL BOOK now NOW OKAy you Won’t REgret it!

> it. is. s0 . good . to be back in Bo0rlo0 working, building, sharing energy again as an indie artist… ((woah that really took some tttiiimmme hey mates // cant move my arms \\ can’t change my face - - monthsss going by ( - <3 deep friends pickin me up off the kitchen floor/- dissociation.difficult conversations - melt downs::shut downs - 0~ptsd processing+* coming back to (( REST )) and letting the LOVE win *^• over and over and over again - - ) but I made it through, not around! (duh the only way for me) & know for sure that DANCING and COMMUNITY is LIFE. here is a pic of me by @ayo.busari at his residency @goolugatupheathcote / or was it a @wwimfest event… ? dn but waz surely 1of the first back where I found a tiny door to move my body once more on noongar boodja . :) o h h thankk goodness for this place and my people - hu know who u are ! AnD YEH V. IMPORTNT: I’m facilitating a lab for @spacedwa June 6/7 - socially engaged practice // many artistic disciplines \\ do plz apply ! GreAT Artists are already in the mix yay = : : it’s gonna be special and focused and thoughtful together work 🤓❤️‍🩹

delayed post !! but I was so so grateful to return to work with dear colleague comrades @pvicollective and perform in this years 2026 @perthfest - > “the booster protocol” is a beautiful thoughtful moving experience, i so HOPE it has more lives in more cityscapes soon ! * :~ ‘leaves fall without sound 🍂 water leaves no trace 💦’ | | 1989 = I got V. lucky to be the meditative guide for soft footsteps and constantly disappearing painting, outside the centre for justice _.\ let’s not stop finding all the quiet determined radical healing ways of resistance and reminding one another this world can be better, we can make it so. (boosting) HOPE is active not passive 💪🏼❤️‍🩹 and we build it together @pvikelli @hokeyfly @rachelarianneogle @stormyhell @shulingwong @gabr_elcs @nelsroad @rhi.p.art and lots of other wonderful ppl 🙏🏼🙌🏼

transitions are really, really hard for me. especially endings and goodbyes. my whole life i’ve grappled with intense body soul discomfort whenever meeting and processing change. turns out it’s an asd thing. but I don’t avoid it, i seek it over and over, coz I love rupture and embrace transformation. yesterday i had my 3rd big heart break in 3 years… so long Effie 💔🚘 my cool dude old wagon, my loyal friend, my safe space for 14 years. she was the love that held all other loves. it helps that i found the perfect little family to give her to, i know they’ll love her and she will take care of them ❤️‍🩹 my year of the snake 🐍 shedding isn’t done yet - - in 3 weeks i’ll leave my Lockwood St home 🏡 go gently everyone… with me, with yourselves, with these days. accumulative loss can feel utterly unholdable… (“we are not made, we are not created to hold it all alone”) or join in with my funny little goodbye rituals coming soon - I do lots, it helps! ☺️🌟

Celebrating this magic happening 1 year ago. Pride of my artistic life to date and reminder to sing - rock - feel it all - be together - hug - wail - and - dive through / wrestle with / rest in the mess of these wild world times. A RESTING MESS by Daisy Sanders Presented August 2024 at Old Customs House for Fremantle's 10 Nights in Port Festival @oldcustomshousewa @cityoffremantle Talk to me about future presentation options plz ! and more info here >> /projects/a-resting-mess << Highlights reel video edit by @mitchellialdridge Beautiful footage by @thefilmmakerfi Credits to project artists / beloved friends @mareecole_liveandincolour @manipac7 @jostenmyburgh @felicitygroom @pavanharimusic @khiajemslieo @mmuriel_ht @stephanie_a_pic @laradorling @mobilelifeforms @blueh_belson @zalimorganart @zalimorgan

> Birthday.me. 35 ! today - and Also - the birth day of a new name - < Daisy hasn’t got much room for gender fluidity >. So - PSA 1. to please use she / they / he pronouns for me - whatever you feel in the mo ? // just play n figure it out with me, it’s fun ! and Always changing - a kid at the park playing hide and seek with us (@mareecole_liveandincolour dream friend keeping me living these days) = pointed right At me and said “it’s his turn to count” - I was in that moment / Am now / happy, knowing it - So PSA 2. if you wanna know my name… call, email or PM for a private intro >lol> :) - so good ! good feels GOOD things happening - like - back to Boorloo resting (relief) on beloved noongar boodja - making A_rt - realising I’m an A_ A_ - knowing I’m A_ now - its All I Am becoming itself myself myself again // in the best + backwards forwards onwards way -to.Happy <

happy 34th to this beautiful legend - love of my 20s and true life-friend. I’m so happy I get to be around (and call you Buggo ! ) forever. it’s 10 years since we first shared a birthday season and a decade I wouldn’t take back for the world. 3 homes + a meelup holiday haven. 1 hilarious special dog in the stink pack. good good people around us. by god we had FUN. and we were always a team, even in the very hardest times. how special it hasn’t ended, it’s just the next chapter. so happy for you, your life and all that’s coming next @lisanakaora . . . i love you and always will. have the best birthday!

grateful for dancing writing, for my wailing voice, for jamming with Saskia/Andi, for sudden street sit skateboard chats with Julia and for stepping out of launnie for a bit. trying to work out how on earth I’ll step into and through this cold, how I’ll keep stepping forward. foot foot steady. “darkness down chest dark so dark ache dark mofo faaaark the convulsions and convolutions of ffffff falling calling nearly city far away friends night beasts heart catch call me someone anyone call please fat tears fall over over down down cry drop heavy lung knots face sliding off sinking soul sides bed sheets stillness wide swamped can’t move why can’t I move? shut down tiny island either way just have to wait be still be darkness be my friend my old friend need friends knead me small me waving, calling out there she is (me not she) so bright so light asking, waiting, calling heed the call cry out to her cry into her cry for her” thank you beloved friends answering often and love me so much, I long and live for you @khiajemslieo @maydenise @jameswilliamohara @jenlarge @lia_t @lisanakaora @luciyoung1 @blueh_belson @shulingwong

played a first set gig at LIMA’s Sunday event called ‘free for all’. thanks launceston improvised music association and @ianchia for facilitating my first true landing as an artist here in lutruwita. “daisy and josten’s improvised duet, growing since 2018, explores the dancer musician counterpoint as a playful exploration of highly attuned awareness and resting into the richness of silence and stillness. ‘Rest Duet’ embodies an ethos of commitment to honest presence in every moment, and a fidelity to depth and rigour of practice over scale and spectacle. it is underpinned by a belief in the abundant reward of decisive risk while cultivating profoundly loving and trusting relationships, in order to reveal new possibilities about how to act with integrity.” my current dance of - transition / change / shapeshifting / relocation /rebuilding - is proving to be unimaginably hard. thank goodness @jostenmyburgh is the artistic love of my life. playing rest duet with them is home, no matter where we are. deeply familiar, comforting, so stable yet ever alive, unpredictable. always growing, asking. real resting, sensing, listening. deciding and feeling. together. this beautiful human and the practice we share mean so much to me. photos by Zara of @sawtootharigallery 🙏🏼

PSA to use she/they pronouns for me now - skating is my happy place - never too late to learn - even if I still look like spaghetti sometimes - spaghetti sk8ters 4eva @khiajemslieo @blueh_belson - entering my teenage boi era - let’s avoid gender binaries like in this song lol - please and love and thank you friends 😎🛹🌟🍂 - photos care of @liesel_zink

Photos at Transit 〰️ @wwimfest mixture of 35mm pointy shoot & digi b&w

This weekend the too-short life of Michael Smith was celebrated and farewelled. It was hard to attend alone / faraway via screen, but good to take moments and hear big heart words about him. A post feels meagre to honour Michael and capture his intense life force. I remember so clearly the moment I met him - in the middle of a dance improvisation shared between just he and I. It was full of electric energy and powerful listening passing between us. I can still see his cheeky eyes glowing at me. I think Michael was the first true artist I encountered. He had a profound influence on my understanding of the presence, vitality and spirit that brings dance alive. Michael burned so bright and so fast. He was connected to something bigger than life itself. He and his gifts are deeply missed. I am thinking of Michael, everyone he affected and all those who loved him. >> Images are from Features of Habit, a film by Storm Helmore and Paddy Madden (2011). Respectfully the first few pics conceal Michael's full image but the third pic and final video show his face. So grateful and lucky to have danced with this soul. <<