Dance

For my MFA conert (next weekend), I have choreographed Life Like Make Believe, a twenty minute dance theatre piece in which five physically dynamic dancers inhabit a world where the quirks of the Sullivant Hall theater are exposed, 2x 4’s are suspended from the ceiling and a broken cot serves as the set design/playground. Arriving in masquerade costumes, dancers flaunt their musical talents, translate memories and hurl pencils. Life Like Make Believe is a story-like mosaic.

As a dance maker, performer, and teacher, I address the effort and dynamic qualities of the body in performance as they relate to time and space. My choreography explores movement invention as a main component of dance making, drawing its content from improvisation, imagery, and thought. The work involves an experimental movement vocabulary, supported by a solid technical base, driven by action and risk. As a choreographer, I create abstract atmospheres that depict character and relationship without plot, and reality without being narrative.