I am a London based visual artist, theatre/opera performance director, producer and writer navigating pathways between diverse practices. I have worked collaboratively in theatre, dance and opera. My artistic concepts, creative approach and aesthetic languages are informed by my extensive experience of multimedia methodologies. Synergy of artistic form is at the heart of my work. Movement, sound, spoken word and visual elements intersect and blend, giving voice to new creative identities. Roswitha’s academic studies of The role of the Chorus in Contemporary Performance inspired site specific productions of choral performances in collaboration with composer and beekeeper Heloise Tunstall-Behrens which received the People’s Award; the subject of the bee swarms’ democratic decision-making spiked her first novel, TheFutureWasBright’.  Since then Roswitha advanced her poetic prose, completed her novel during a two month artist/writer residency on a Brazilian Island and generated a collection of short stories and poetry. As a writer she collaborated with artist/choreographer Yolande Snaith and composer Kris Apple on Of Body and Ghost in California and the UK; she has written the concept and dialogue to the opera installation The Manna Threshold which premiered in London, UK, while editing her work for publication; the essay In Terms of Meaning was published by Westminster University Press, and forthcoming the short story All those Leos who.., by MIR Online, Birkbeck University.  Roswitha has no hobbies; she would like to be friends with octopuses and is happiest in summer,    listening to the meadows’ wildlife. 

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