"Caesura" Premieres at Princeton Dance Festival
Created in collaboration with students and composer Ryan Wolfe, “Caesura” refers to a pause or break in a line of text or phrase of music and this dance engages with now: what is this moment of coming back to spaces with people? What is it to feel eye contact? What is it to see a whole body before you?
Princeton Dance Festival Reimagined—Site, Off-Site, Site-Responsive
When the pandemic shifted courses online, I created a course in site-based choreography for students to create within their communities. Site, Off-Site, Site-Responsive Dance and Choreography asked where can dance happen? What can it do? And who can do it?
Taking Space Making Place—International Documentation of Contemporary Dance Education
At the start of the pandemic I joined a remarkable working group of dance artists scattered around the globe. We met each Saturday to share perspectives and processes.
“Faces of Downtown” at The Invisible Dog Art Center, Brooklyn, NY
I am fortunate to be featured in the extraordinary photographer Maria Baranova’s exhibit, Faces of Downtown, at The Invisible Dog Art Center, Brooklyn, NY. Known for her photography in live performance, Baranova collaborated with us on the book There Might Be Others.
“Conditions” premieres at Soaking Wet Festival, commissioned by Women In Motion
When I was nineteen, I experienced my first disorienting injury while a student at Juilliard. I herniated two discs and fractured three vertebrae. The experience necessitated a restart of epic proportions. As one wise teacher said (thank you, Alfredo Corvino), “You were trained so well but so wrong.” I began the long process of re-training towards a responsive body/being. Somewhere there also began the choreographic process, thought, and discovery—physical limitations providing a scaffolding for change.
“There Might Be Others” featured during “Living at the Intersection” Conference at Princeton University
The Council on Science and Technology (CST) held its inaugural Living at the Intersection Symposium on April 12-13, 2018 on the Princeton University campus.
Princeton University Premiere: “You Will”
You Will is a new dance I created in collaboration with the performers. Working with a sound score that includes Zoe Keating, Rachel’s, and Zhao Jiping, five women chart a course through time.
TRANSMISSIONS AND TRACES: RENDERING DANCE - “There Might Be Others” at the Dance Studies Association Conference
I was excited to bring the workshop There Might be Others: Staging Negotiation to the DSA Conference 2017 at The Ohio State University. There Might Be Others is a system of collective composition that examines the role of presence, performer agency and group decision-making to create diverse communities, propose a model for collective activism and produce ethical performance.
“There Might Be Others” tours to Canada
We are performing There Might Be Others at Scotia Festival of Music on June 4th! Featuring a cast of 27 dancers and musicians from NY, NS, and Poland.
"There Might Be Others" Premiere
This piece of collective composition is now released into the hands and bodies of these glorious author/performers.
Sō Si: Sō Percussion’s Summer Institute
A remarkable week collaborating with composer Dan Trueman, Sō Percussion, Mobius Percussion and participants in SōSi during a residency at Princeton University.