
I was an artist in residence at some notable places like the Joyce
Theater, Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival, Celebrate Brooklyn festival,
and the defunct Dance Theater Workshop. I'm the recipient of many grants,
commissions, and residencies, including awards from the
National Endowment for the Arts, the New York Foundation for the
Arts, the Jerome Foundation, the National Performance Network, and
the National Dance Project. I choreographed dance sequences for the
play A
Beautiful Child, which premiered at the NYC Fringe Festival,
and created pieces for several regional dance companies.
Though I'm no longer interested in getting my dances reviewed,
many writers from estimable publications have said very
nice things about my work. (Receiving critics' approbation
is less important to me than it used to be—but apparently not so
much that I would delete their pullquotes from this website.)
I've been a guest artist/teacher at many colleges and festivals, including Stephens College, Rutgers University, Lafayette College, Juniata College, the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee, University of California Santa Cruz, Florida Dance Festival, Bates College, Wayne State University, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, and Indiana University. Some memorable master classes include the ones I taught at the Jacob's Pillow School, the Milwaukee Ballet, Montclair State University, Winona State University, the South Carolina Dance Alliance, and the High School for Creative and Performing Arts (Cincinnati). My work has been performed by college students on many ACDFA programs.
I've
held faculty positions too: Hofstra University (technique), Manhattanville
College (repertory),
Adelphi University (I was a contract researcher and also taught
Dance History & Criticism), and Eugene Lang College The New
School for Liberal Arts, where I taught Choreography 2,
Performance and Digital Technology, Advanced Repertory, Seeing
Performance, and Writing About the Performing Arts (I taught this
last course to inmates at the now-closed Arthur
Kill Correctional Facility). I
was recently a visiting assistant professor of dance at the
University of South Florida, where I taught technique and
dance history and set my choreography on undergraduate dance
majors.
I graduated from New York City's Stuyvesant High School and from Oberlin College with a major in English and a minor in Dance. I have a masters degree from NYU's Steinhardt School of Education, where I choreographed one of the first bicoastal telematic dance performances through multi-channel Internet 2 reciprocal connections (see Lubricious Transfer). And I am currently completing an MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts from Goddard College—choreographing, painting watercolors, and being mad scholarly.
I
enjoy spending time with my nephew, Arlo, and my niece, Calla.