Archive for the 'Dance' Category

Aerial

Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010

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 [...]

Epyllion

Wednesday, February 10th, 2010

…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 [...]

Solo for Two

Tuesday, July 14th, 2009

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 [...]

Ceci n’est pas la lune

Wednesday, April 18th, 2007

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 [...]

Duet for Girl and Camera

Tuesday, December 26th, 2006

A video dance piece I created in college with the awesome Tim Hahn.  It still ranks as one of my favorite projects.