Most recently I took part in Siren Arts-Transformer Residency, an innovative summer residency program & public performance art series based in Asbury Park, NJ that supports emerging visual artists throughout the northeast corridor of Washington, DC to NYC. Here are some photos from the residency.

I am a performer. I am a story teller Currently I work with Dance to the People (DTTP).  Inspired by current environmental dance research, I choreographed Evolution is not Anthropocentric and I am in currently performing, Apocalitzin, a Cli-Fi Dance Theater piece made possible by a grant from the Queens Arts Council. One of our signature performance styles is we perform with trash, or as we like to call it re-purposed objects. All of our costumes and set are from re-used clothes, articles, and plastic bags. Recently I performed and presented at Peformática in Cholula, Mexico and at the World Dance Alliance in Anger, France. I performed at Judson Church in the Dance to the Theater piece, #All of the Above.

I have a BA in Theater and Dance from the University of Texas and an MA in Dance with a graduate certificate in Women’s Studies from Texas Woman’s University. I worked and performed full time with Contradanza, a Mexico City Based Performance company. We performed in schools and towns throughout Mexico that had little access to the arts or even toilet paper and we toured to Cuba and South America.   The eagerness of the audiences, their profound feedback from the experience, and for me, seeing real poverty for the first time, augmented my belief in the importance of dance for humanity.  It is expression, emotional freedom, and communication beyond everyday vocabulary and social structure. It crosses borders. Dance is human.

I was the editorial assistant for CONTACT QUARTERLY and continue to be a contact improviser. I dance contact improvisation because it removes hierarchical positioning from the dance making process, it is a community dance form, and it allows me to empathize and connect.

I have danced with LEIMAY in Brooklyn, Rosanna Gamson World Wide and Universal Studios in California, performed as a stilt dancer with Ray Pierce in Los Angeles, and en pointe with the dance theater company, Meh-Tropolis at the Stellar Adler Theater. One of my specialties is comedy dance. I performed in a variety show which toured across Texas and a Dr. Seuss parody.

I also dance at clubs, in dance cardio classes, in my kitchen, and with my friends.  If you ever feel like dancing, I'll join you!