Provost, Porter College
Associate Professor, Theater Arts
Somatic-based movement practices, Choreography, Improvisation, Neuromuscular re-patterning for the dancer, Critical Dance and Race Studies, U.S. Post/modern Dance.
Education and Training:
BFA, The Juilliard School, New York, NY
MFA, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Teaching Interests:
Somatic-based movement practices, Choreography, Improvisation, Neuromuscular re-patterning for the dancer, Critical Dance and Race Studies, U.S. Post/modern Dance.
Selected Performances:
- Dancing Around Race, a community engagement process in the Bay Area
- Not About Race Dance and Cover Your Mouth When You Smile, ODC Theater, San Francisco, CA
- Netta Yerushalmy’s Paramodernities at Jacob’s Pillow
- Gerald + Keith, a collaboration with Keith Hennessy at Fresh Festival, San Francisco, CA
- Taglish, Ten Artists Respond to Trisha Brown’s Locus, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
- Splinters in Our Ankles, ODC Theater, San Francisco, CA
- Visiter, Joe Goode Annex, San Francisco, CA
- Fluster and Plot, Danspace Project at St. Mark’s Church, New York, NY
- Save The Robots!, Dance New Amsterdam. New York, NY
- Border, Jacob’s Pillow Inside/Out, Becket, MA
Selected Publications:
- Kuan Du Dance Festival, Taipei, Taiwan
- Dancing Around Race – Interrogating Whiteness in Dance (2018), National Dance Education Organization, San Diego, CA
- Guest Artist (2017), Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts
- Choreography as a Colonizing Force (2016), National Dance Education Organization, Washington, DC
- Splinters in Our Ankles (2015), World Dance Alliance and Asia Pacific Dance Festival, Honolulu, HI
Honors and Awards:
- 2020 Outstanding Alumni Award – University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
- National Dance Project – New England Foundation for the Arts
- The Bogliasco Foundation Fellowship
- The Kenneth Rainin Foundation’s New and Experimental Works (NEW) Program
- The Hellman Fellowship
- Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Fellowship
- ODC Theater Resident Artist
- CHIME at 10 in the Bay Area
- New York Dance and Performance Award “Bessie"
- Dance New Work Award, UW-Milwaukee
- David Payne-Carter Award for Teaching Excellence, NYU
Selected Presentations:
- Kuan Du Dance Festival, Taipei, Taiwan
- Dancing Around Race – Interrogating Whiteness in Dance (2018), National Dance Education Organization, San Diego, CA
- Guest Artist (2017), Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts
- Choreography as a Colonizing Force (2016), National Dance Education Organization, Washington, DC
- Splinters in Our Ankles (2015), World Dance Alliance and Asia Pacific Dance Festival, Honolulu, HI
Email:
Phone:
Office: 831-459-3700, Porter College Academic Office
Office: 831-459-4918, Theater Arts, J-14
Office:
Porter College Academic Office
Theater Arts, J-14
Office Hours:
Office Hours: by appointment
Please see the current Faculty Office Hours and contact sheet here, or contact the department office at theater@ucsc.edu.
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