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About: Please tell us about your self. Some of our programs have benefits for art workers - please tell us if you are an artist and mention the most recent work/venue/space/residency where you have worked/developed your practice.: I make performances and objects for performance that involve connections between people—abstract, emotional connections as well as physical connections. This often involves tying people together. I’m simultaneously interested in creating universal experiences for all humans as well as creating experiences that highlight the alienation that occurs when people are forced to categorize themselves within especially restrictive boundaries.
I’ve created performances for traditional stages, gallery spaces, warehouses and the internet, often times drawing from my experience with interactive technology to expand the capabilities of the body or the audience’s perception of the body. My work has been shown at Dance Theater Workshop, Galapagos Art Space, DUO Multicultural Arts Center, Grace Exhibition Space, The Wild Project, 319 Scholes and presented by Movement Research, chashama, Dance NOW NYC and Arts in Bushwick, among others. I have been in residence at CAVE in Williamsburg and part of the Live Media Performance Lab at EMPAC in Troy, NY.

As a choreographer, I realize a concept first then bring it into rehearsal with dancers, primarily improvising to devise a movement score for a piece. This evolves throughout the rehearsal process through revision. I rely heavily on video documentation of rehearsals as a reflection tool, sometimes integrating this video into the final version of the piece.

I became interested first in cameras, attaching them to odd places on my dancers and stringing together the footage to make abstract video pieces. Later I used crowd sourcing on the Internet, putting out calls for submissions, publishing them online and using the material to choreograph dances. This process has evolved through my experience as a student in the Interactive Telecommunications Program at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. During this time I’ve experimented with materials, constructing physical apparatuses to control video and sound, and projections, using visuals as set pieces that reshape stage environments.

Background:: dancer, video artist, performance artist, choreographer, new media artist

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