Performance
Freelance Contemporary Dance Artist
Island 2026 - ongoing
Director: Heather Fulton
Choreographer: Ruby Worth
Starcatchers & Frozen Charlotte present in association with Imaginate. Island is a dance & live music show for babies and new parents. A multi-sensory landscape, inviting audiences to celebrate the unique relationship between babies and their grown-ups where loving connections can be stretched and strengthened.
UK Touring 2026
Swept Away 2026 - ongoing
Choreographer: Penny Chivas
R&D for screendance work inspired by the game of curling in Scotland.
Solitude Without Loneliness 2019 - ongoing
Choreographer: Malcolm Sutherland
Dynamic dancing and physical storytelling permeated by a morphing veneer of darkness and comedy.
Excerpts performed at DanceLive festival in Aberdeen, Innovations in Edinburgh and Freier Tanz im Delta XI, Mannheim. Premiere at MacRobert Arts Centre 2025, Edinburgh Fringe run 2025
A Journey of Flight 2023 - 2025
Choreography by Kathryn Gordon, music by Jenny Sturgeon and film by Alison Piper
Immersive dance performance inspired by the migration of birds. National tour and Made In Scotland Edinburgh Fringe run 2025
Image credits:
Solitude Without LonelinessChoreography by Malcolm SutherlandDancers: Malcolm Sutherland, Molly Danter and Jorja FollinaPhotography by Günter Krämmer
Video and editing by Danny Bonnar
Parliament of Ghosts 2022
Choreography by Róisín O'Brien
Hidden Door Festival collaboration with Rowan McIlvride Music.
The Art of Looking Sideways 2021-22
R&D for solo work exploring resilience and perspective using choreographed material, improvisation and spoken/written word. Supported by Dance Base, CityMoves, Activate Performing Arts, The Arts Development Company and Pavilion Dance South West.
Dumfries and Galloway Dance 2021
Dancer in touring company season, creating and performing outdoor contemporary dance work across Dumfries and Galloway.
Works:
- And Now We Unravel, Again by Emma Jayne Park
- Sprawl by Jennifer Paterson and Tony Mills
- Passepied by Bridie Gane
- Triple Echo by Matthew Hawkins
- heartbeats, fresh air, gestures, time by Louise Ahl
The Norm 2020 (ongoing)
Interdisciplinary collective with theatre maker Ellie Higgins and multidisciplinary artist Rho McGuire.
Interdisciplinary workshops and immersive events
Forgotten Horizon
2020
Solo structured improvisation in response to Salvador Dali's "Forgotten Horizon". Performed live online from Shetland, as part of Distilled Life Presents: Life Imitates Art sold out online showcase event.
Flux Intermedia
Norwich Arts Centre, 2019
Composer: Bill Vine, Choreographer: Vinicius Salles
New concept in the creation of holistic, intermedia performance
Image credits:
Solitude Without Loneliness
Choreography by Malcolm Sutherland
Dancers: Alex Henderson, Jessie Roberts-Smith and Jorja Follina
Photography by Brian Hartley
National Youth Dance Company of Scotland
Choreographer: Anna Kenrick, 2017-2018
UK touring and exchange to Melbourne, work by Adam Wheeler with Yellow Wheel
Graduation showcase
The Scottish School of Contemporary Dance, 2018
Works by: Rob Heaslip, Tommy Small, Laura Watson and Lisa Bibby
Music Videos
- Fjord - Stars In An Ocean of Darkness
Romanian post-rock band (2017)
- WERD - Music In Colour
Edinburgh rapper (2018)
- Be Charlotte - Lights Off
Scottish singer(2020)
Project Y Performance Course
Summers 2015-2017 (Y Dance)
Works by: Theo Clinkard, Liv Lorent and Gavin Coward, Matthew Robinson, Hagit Yakira, Anna Kenrick, Errol White, Jurg Koch and Alan Greig
Image credits:
Choreographed by Bridie Gane
Danced by Jorja Follina, Malcolm Sutherland and Claire Pencak for Dumfries and Galloway Dance.
Image by Kirstin McEwan
Shaper/Caper
Choreographer: Thomas Small
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Solo version of No Offence performed at Dundee Rep, April 2019
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No Offence 2018 R&D, Tramway
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V&A Opening Performance 2018 - Outdoor performance for audience of 10,000 and TV screening
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A Day to Play 2018 - Improvised interactive children’s shows
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Well Good 2018 - physical theatre show touring schools
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CUT 2017 - Site specific horror show
Something Smashing 2018/2019
Curated by Skye Reynolds and Alma Sua
Live dnace and music improvisation performances in Edinburgh.
Image credits:
Photo by Rachel Cuthbert
Costume by Alison Brown
Strawboys by Rob Heaslip
Music video for North Atlas
Dance Token 2025
Arcade themed interactive dance walk by Jorja Follina, Jemma Stein & Melissa Heywood, commissioned by Art Walk Projects and performed on Portobello Promenade
hymn to the sun 2025
Music video for song in two parts by North Atlas. Solo and duet improvisation
Frankenstein 2024
Netflix film directed by Guillermo del Toro, choreography by Abby Warrilow. Bistro Dancer, waltz scene.
The Batchelor USA 2024
Dancer in reality TV series, ballroom scene.
Season 29 ep. 5, choreography by Abby Warrilow
WALK 2023
Written and performed by Ellie Higgins
Movement Director for solo intermedia theatre show, for Edinburgh Fringe run.
The Last Leaf 2023
Choreographed by Yuxi Jiang
Performance at Hidden Door Festival's immersive Environments, blending Chinese folk and contemporary dance.
Strawboys 2022
Choreographer Rob Heaslip
National tour of vibrant and energetic outdoor pop-up performance, blurring the lines between traditional and contemporary dance and music.
Image credits:
And Now We Unravel, Again
Choreographed by Emma Jayne Park
Danced by Jorja Follina, Malcolm Sutherland and Claire Pencak for Dumfries and Galloway Dance.
Image by Kirstin McEwan at Crawick Multiverse.
