Choreography
Polarity Trip, 2024, Brown University
The dancers and I collaborated to create movement material and spatial design that explored the different directions the body and the body's energy can move--soft/sharp, tension/release, even/distorted, balanced/off-balanced, projecting outward/inward, connections with self/others.
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Mesh, 2023, Roger Williams University
Six dancers. Each day we move, leaving or coming and moving around, between and through space, time, others, and our sleeves. This piece blends dynamism movement, physicality, and spatial patterns, to inspire these occurrences.
Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_x9IIiho7WA
Locus Point, 2023, Providence College.
This work for six dancers is inspired by the shape of the circle, its unification, the feeling of community, and the idea that the connections we make with ourselves and others, and all things are points of departure, informing and supporting us as we move through life.
Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5QqUScFCtZQ
Vessel Breath, 2020, Hunter College
Video Link: https://vimeo.com/487468579
Red Garden, 202o, Hunter Dance Festival
A solo work responding to the COVID pandemic when I was in quarantine: When I stepped outside... the isolation continued. It had this feeling of the color red, which symbolizes passion, love, tension, danger, and death. The movement vocabulary embodies this symbolism.
Video Link: https://youtu.be/dzHKu5VnoHM
Below the Line, 2019, Hunter College
A trio of dancers emerges from a piece of fabric to reveal fleeting connections with space and the relationships they build between each other and their bodies.
Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=10MXSD5vPCk
Crash and Move, 2019, Hofstra University
A large group dance, this piece uses a movement vocabulary that thrusts dancers into space. The cast moves with precision and speed. Suddenly they roll, jump, spiral, twist, and turn, both in space and within their bodies. This work collaborates with the dancers and musician/composer Ryan Wolfe.
Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfTZryzegfE
Through Form and Momentum, 2017, Hofstra University
Created for 12 dancers this work makes a dynamic spatial design that spotlights an array of large sweeping movements and small gestural actions.
Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLxqyLc78EQ
Outer System, 2014, Hofstra University
Eight dancers dance independently and in groups—quartets, solos, duets, and trios— to build a functioning unit, moving as one. Composer Jordan Chiolis creates a sound score to portray a feeling of distant space that moves beyond our atmosphere.
Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9NU9qhsHjQ
Dance Film
BodyVerse, 2022, (MFA Thesis Project, Hunter College)
This is my thesis project. It is a dance film exploring dance improvisation, various body systems, and our intertwining connection with the earth’s natural world. One of the aims of this work is to transfer that experience to the viewer, via film, and through an embodied welcome as opposed to a live performance.
**Before viewing my video, to "activate" the viewer, I encourage you to participate in a pre-previewing warm-up. Please view the PDF for guidelines.
Video Link: https://youtu.be/vq9QEW3RmWc
BodyMind, 2021, (Advanced Studio Final Project, Hunter College)
This film expresses movement, text, editing techniques, and various somatic practitioners' philosophies to emphasize the interconnections between conscious thought and physical action.
Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4msJLJiCaK8
Untitled, 2021, (ScreenDance Final Project, Hunter College)
This piece captures light and shadow and the surrounding space to frame my body's shape and form in various ways. The ambient music adds a poetic texture to the work.
Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XlHdAbzdUTE
Research
Thesis Paper: BodyVerse
My thesis paper, published by Hunter College, supports my thesis project and demonstrates my skills in research and writing.
Link: https://academicworks.cuny.edu/hc_sas_etds/883/