As a guest artist and adjunct faculty member in the Theatre & Dance Department at Winona State University, I has the pleasure of making interbody.dance, a screendance. February 11-13, check out interbody.dance and the other films made my students and faculty at Winona State in Dancescape 2021: A Dance Film Festival! Get your tickets here,…
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Vantage Being
Vantage Being‘s performances at the Urban Arts Space are going well! The piece combines an interactive video installation, live dance performance, and localized soundscapes to invite viewers to explore and making choices. As audience members move among live performers and interact with video installations they choose which parts of the multiple concurrent live and video-based…
State of Swing (Hopkins Hall Gallery Oct 15 – Nov 29)
What you need to know before you watch: I created this film for exhibition in a gallery show called Cinema Expanded. It will be in the Hopkins Hall Gallery from Monday, October 15 to Thursday, November 29. The projector sits on a pedestal on the gallery, shining this film onto a white wall. Colored gels (or filters) hang…
Edinburgh Fringe (Aug. 16-22)
After almost two years of rehearsals, I have just finished a weekend of Pie Equals Square performances, and the audiences in Minneapolis seemed to enjoy the work! Paula Mann, the choreographer, creates like mad! In fact, I think she scrapped about 2/3 (if not more) of the movement that had once been in the piece–vehemently rejecting…
Pie Equals Square (July 27-29, 2018 in Minneapolis, MN)
Over a year ago, Gerry Timm, a retired medical engineering professor and dance lover, gathered a choreographer, composer and dancers to create an evening of movement, music and media. I will be dancing along side Tazz Germaine Lindsay, Leslie O’Neill, Doug Hooker, Rachel Clark, and Gerry himself. Choreography is by Paula Mann and sounds design is…
Iowa International ScreenDance Festival (April 28-29, 2018)
I’m pleased to announce that pour la liberté has been selected into the Iowa International ScreenDance Festival and will be screened April 28-29 in Iowa City! The Iowa International ScreenDance Festival is part of the 12th Iowa Dance Festival. The festival presents a curated program of short films, selected from over 100 entries from 25 different countries….
Ohio Shorts (April 28, 2018)
pour la liberté has been selected for the Ohio Shorts at the Wexner Center for the Arts on April 28th! Tickets are only $5. It sells out, so get your ticket early!
Not All Diasporas Are Created Equal: The Lebanese Diaspora’s Confinement to Oriental Dance (July 5-8, 2018 in Valletta, Malta)
With funding from the Student Funding Initiative and the Arts and Humanities Small Grants, I am excited to announce that I’ll be presenting my paper, “Not All Diasporas Are Created Equal: The Lebanese Diaspora’s Confinement to Oriental Dance” at the Dance Studies Association conference in Valletta, Malta in July! In this paper, I illuminate a…
Rupture Front (April 5-7, 2018)
3/30/17 update: The OSU Spring Concert is next weekend, and I’m excited to share Rupture Front. This Duet explores slipping and locked boundaries of identity, and wonders what erupts through the cracks in our crust. According to the United States Geological Survey, a Rupture Front is “the instantaneous boundary between the slipping and locked parts of a fault during…
Collaboration with Flutist (December 2, 2017)
Daniel Gallagher, a DMA student in Flute Performance, contacted me in October about a collaboration. He dreamed of a dancer performing an eerie solo to the first piece of Charles Nectaire’s 96 short solo flute pieces, Les Chants de Nectaire (1944). My interest in spidery movement fit the bill, and I’ll be performing the solo…
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