Odissi Wildflower; A Modern Dancer

While working on a bachelor’s degree in American and English literature at the University of Washington, I took almost enough dance classes for a double major. Later, I moved to […]

Dancing with Jiajia on the Spine of the Temple of Heaven

THIS PAST DECEMBER I was selected as one of seven American choreographers to engage in a cultural exchange in China, a program of ZiRu Productions and Dancers’ Group—with financial support […]

An American in Düsseldorf: Shifts in Perspective: Experience at a European Dance Festival

This summer I was invited to join Dance/USA as part of the American delegation at the Internationale Tanzmesse NRW, a biennial international dance festival and conference in Düsseldorf, Germany. I […]

Soft Power

Uncomfortable sweat drips under my arms, my cheeks burning as I speak up on the panel. I challenge an application because it’s unclear how the applicant belonged to a marginalized BIPOC community and why they share stories of this community as a cis-white person.

Dancing in the Land of Edelweiss: My Adventures in Salzburg

Three months ago I was living the good life. I resided in an apartment in beautiful Oakland, California seven blocks from Lake Merritt with two cats, a boyfriend and another […]

See What Happens

Together with multi-generational collaborators, I repossess moving artifacts, while generating dances arising from the emerging present.

Purity of Cumbia: Talking with John Jairo Roldán about sustaining the “mother of all rhythm”

It is an early Sunday evening in late March, and I’m sitting on a barstool at Spats in Berkeley where two large screen TVs are showing two different NCAA championship […]

WCCIJAM 2013: Talking Bay Area Contact Improvisation, Past Present & Future

Every year for over 25 years, about 200 dancers come together sometime around the 4th of July, in the Sawtooth Building in Berkeley, for The West Coast Contact Improv Jam. […]

IMPRESSIONS: An Aural and Physical Expedition Through the Sounds of the World

THIS APRIL, natural soundscape artist/musician Dr. Bernie Krause and English composer Richard Blackford are collaborating on a world premiere with Alonzo King LINES Ballet set to an original composition by […]

Jester in the Router: Multi-site Performance Using The Internet

Imagine artistic and cultural exchange on a worldwide scale. One where live, truly collaborative performing arts events occur on a regular basis at multiple locations simultaneously, not simply connecting a […]