I’ve quietly been working away over the last year learning to dance on an aerial rope. It’s a fabulous feeling and I eagerly continue my studies, but just for the fun of it I’m posting a little video of my progress in my most recent class with my fabulous teacher Kiebpoli Calnek. She teaches in [...]
…Is the title of my most recent venture- a ritual theater piece told through movement, puppetry and song. We just performed it’s first incarnation at HERE Arts Center where I have been in residence with my collaborator and puppeteer Lindsay Abromaitis-Smith. The show was a great success- sold out both nights to audiences excited and [...]
This is a piece I developed with the jazz funk duo The Mimetiks (featuring Akie Bermiss and Kyle Jaster). I’ve performed it in a variety of settings- in prosceniums and on rooftops. It’s a delightful little piece- an encounter, a memory, a love story. Here is a video of the piece taken at the Sidwell [...]
My Senior Honors Thesis for completion of the Theater and Dance major at Amherst College. I started brainstorming ideas in June of 2006 with no idea what the show would be, only that I had to make one. As I worked through the fall I developed a duet with a ghost puppet which eventually became [...]
A video dance piece I created in college with the awesome Tim Hahn. It still ranks as one of my favorite projects.