Rachel Wiese and I presented a little set of window performance études—visible to an outdoor audience gathered on the sidewalk, and streamed live via YouTube to a virtual audience—as part…
Video/projection artist and dancer/choreographer Callie Chapman runs a fantastic space over at Studio550. I was tickled to be invited for an evening of improvisation—performers were drawn out of jars, so…
Join me at Central Square Theater, where I’ve been invited to present as part of the Nora Theater’s new works series! Rachel Wiese joins me to perform our piece Be…
I’m delighted to share that I’ve been awarded a month-long creative research residency and cross-cultural exchange! I’ll spend the month of March in Montréal, hosted by the Casteliers puppetry festival…
Sound Shadows is new work in progress, a collaboration between Irish dancer Rebecca McGowan, banjo player and ballad singer Julia Friend, and me on shadows & movement. These photos are…
Sep 2018 – Jan 2019 | The Dance Complex | Cambridge, Massachusetts | More info & tickets Rebecca McGowan, Julia Friend, and I are performing a new work this month…
Rachel Wiese and I have been invited as part of the cohort for Les Sages Fous’s Micro-Festival de Marionnettes Inachevées, or Micro-Festival of Incomplete Puppetry, in Trois-Rivières, Quebec! We’ll be further developing…
A second dance number, performed by Veronica Barron and Rachel Wiese, was a mesmerizing piece featuring Barron’s “Be Clean When We Die” spiritual from her 2015 Gather ‘round the Mic…
“A second dance number, performed by Veronica Barron and Rachel Wiese, was a mesmerizing piece featuring Barron’s “Be Clean When We Die” spiritual from her 2015 Gather ‘round the Mic…
Rebecca McGowan, Julia Friend, and I spent a very satisfying day in Connecticut after the Ballard Institute Puppet Slam experimenting with this question: how can we use lights and shadows…
I’ve been thinking for awhile that I want to have a “physical theater workout” more often—an opportunity to move my body, and a reminder that I can use it creatively…
Top image: ©Greg Cook/WBUR (more beautiful pics here!) Last summer, I had an idea: I showed up to lead the dance troupe I co-facilitate with School of HONK in our “simple, powerfully fun”…
Since March of 2016, my dear friend Rosalie Norris and I have co-led a monthly Dance Party with the School of HONK, a community brass band that is open to all…
Golden sequined wristbands. Polka dotted dresses and hats. Mardi Gras masks. Sunday, February 7th was both a joyous School of HONK Mardi Gras “Fat Sunday” parade, and also the launch…
Jaggery released an eerily beautiful new music video (featuring gorgeous Butoh dance by Jennifer Hicks, with choreography that debuted at Liars and Believers’ Interference two years ago!), As The Sparrow rocked out,…
I am so delighted to be joining the cast of Central Square Theater’s Arabian Nights for it’s fifth (and final!) year. We’ve got your nefarious thieves, clever servants, greedy rich men,…
Many folks who know my background know that I trained in India for four months in classical dance-theater. It taught me precision of gesture and aliveness of eyes, which I…
I taught a master class, “Imagery in the Body”, for CHIMERAlab Dance Theater, drawn from the work of Jerzy Grotowski (via Elaine vaan Hogue) and Jon Lipsky. The class included an introduction…
January 9-21, 2012 I’m teaching a movement intensive at the Puppet Showplace Theater titled Body Puppetry and Bharatanatyam, which utilizes storytelling tools derived from the classical South Indian dance-theater form in…
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