Choreographic Work
ExitSense
Exitsense is a contemporary dance piece about mortality, phenomenology, and subjectivity. Throughout the rehearsal process dancers are encouraged to document their subjective experiences as we explore a Nietzschean phenomenology of the body. The pedagogy is just as important as the performance of this piece. My goal for Exitsense is to represent a philosophy of embodiment in which perception, thought, language, and reason all arise from the corporeal world.
Strange Fruit
Strange Fruit is a solo that I originally improvised and later documented and restaged. This piece is in response to institutional and systemic racism of the past and present. I was lucky to be invited to perform this piece at the National Conference for Undergraduate Research in 2016.
To Build A Home
In To Build A Home I experimented with using small movements to create shapes and patterns in space. This piece is about resounding movement and the impact that adapting to constant change has on our lives.
Come and Get Your Love
Come and Get Your Love is an ode to dancing like no one's watching. This choreography was meant to give the dancers permission to break all the rules and let their freak flag fly! In a showcase of emotional lyrical solos, I wanted to include a fun, goofy dance.
Woods
I enjoyed using video editing to alter the rate of change for this piece. The score was a short phrase repeated while expressing increasing frustration. Woods is about feeling confined in routine and longing for freedom.
Improving Yourself Through Movement
This is a compilation video of me improvising throughout a semester as part of a research project. I presented this video along with journal entries about my progress. In the end, improvisational dance allowed me to express myself and helped me communicate with others.
Pippin: With You
Pippin is the story of King Charlemagne's son and his journey to find something meaningful and fulfilling to do with his life. In this scene Pippin explores his sexuality and it was my goal to portray that, while remaining tasteful and appropriate for community theater. This was the first of many musical numbers the cast learned and I think it was one of the most successful.
This is the battle scene in Pippin. This clip demonstrates my use of score-based and set choreography. The "Manson Trio" toward the middle of the clip was difficult to teach and learn, but the final product was well worth it. The cast of Pippin was so eager to learned and retained choreography so well that it was a joy to work with them.