Performances
Emergent Sea
Emergent Sea is a myth from the future. Distant humans tell each other stories as they attempt to understand the chaotic planet their ancestors left them to inherit.
Garden of Forking Paths
Garden of Forking Paths imagines three people spinning out of orbit as the center of their social and moral world disappears in the wake of “progress.”
True Voyage
True Voyage is an experimental opera developed through improvised music, movement, and vocal parts, and devised theater. Its creation was a collaborative effort among the multidisciplinary, intergenerational cast of artists. It tells the story of a scientist, at work on a unified theory of time, who makes unexpected contact with a neighboring planet. The ensuing journey challenges long-held assumptions of action and consequence, choice and coercion, and the imperative to self-actualize in service to one’s community.
Arcadia
Arcadia is performed in and around the ruins of one of Manhattan's former rail yards. In the bucolic pastoralism of classical Arcadia, humans are at their simple best. This Arcadia is a portal into a not-so-distant future, in which our best has to be rebuilt and rediscovered upon the wreckage of our worst.
scarcity complex
scarcity complex unfurls from surveillance of, and extraction from, feminized bodies and “natural” landscapes, and the cultural substitution of one for the other.
Excerpt from Pitch Dark no. 1 (a breakdown)
Excerpt from Pitch Dark no. 1 (a breakdown) is a fever dream inspired by the protagonist in Renata Adler’s novela, “Pitch Dark.” The character’s identity is, for a time, utterly submerged within the confines of her social and romantic relationships.
Improvisation for Three Dancers and Four Musicians
Improvisation for Three Dancers and Four Musicians is an improvised performance developed with zero rehearsal. It is an exploration of spontaneous composition among movement, music, and the built environment, in the form of North Seattle’s College’s iconic brutalist design.
Humility : Drift
Humility : Drift is an improvised dance project taught to people by the landscape of Richmond Beach Saltwater Park in Shoreline, Washington. Currently, dancers are collaborating with a scientific illustrator to create naturalist ID cards that will serve as STEAM teaching tools. One side of the card will depict a beach organism, and the other side will include movement prompts developed from dance research engaging with that organism. Humility : Drift encourages empathy and intuition as tools to help build reciprocal relationships with our surrounding ecosystems.
