Education
Academic
2020 The Ohio State University (Columbus, OH)
M.F.A Candidate, Department of Dance
2010 Saint Olaf College (Northfield, MN)
B.A. in Dance and Biology
Concentration in American Racial Multicultural Studies
Professional
2019 Undoing Racism, People’s Institute for Survival and Beyond, Dance/USA (Cleveland, OH)
2019 Fissures: Opening Portals and Breakages in Contact Improvisation with mayfield brooks, Ray Chung, and Karen Nelson, Earthdance (Plainfield, MA)
2012-2016 Breitenbush 8-Day Contact Improvisation Jams with Steve Paxton, Benno Voorham, Alito Alessi and others. (Detroit, OR)
2011-2016 A Re-Education: Kline Technique with Barbara Mahler (Ashland, OR & Minneapolis, MN
2013-2015 Contact Improvisation Workshops with Martin Keogh (Ashland, OR)
2015 Rose City Salsa & Timba Festival (Portland, OR)
2015 San Francisco Salsa Festival (San Francisco, CA)
2015 Eugene Salsa Festival (Eugene, OR)
2012-2014 Contact Improvisation Workshops with Karen Nelson (Ashland, OR)
2014 Field Video Production, Rogue Valley TV (Ashland, OR)
2011 Contact Improvisation with Mirva Makinen(Ashland, OR)
2011 Contact Improvisation with Karl Frost (Ashland, OR)
2009 American Dance Festival (Durham, NC)
TEACHING
The Ohio State University (Columbus, OH)
2019 DANCE 5121: Improvisational Partnering Methods, with Michelle Sipes
2019 DANCE 2201: Composition for Dance Minors
2018-2019 DANCE 1111: Ballet I
2019 DANCE 1101: Contemporary I
2019 DANCE 4500: Directed Teaching Instructor for Ballet I
2019 DANCE 4193: Ballet Independent Study Instructor
2019 DANCE 2401: Western Concert Dance, Guest Lecturer
2019 DANCE 4112: Somatics for Dance Majors, Substitute
2019 DANCE 4101 & 4102: Contemporary for Dance Majors, Substitute
2018 DANCE 3202: Sophomore BFA Composition, Teaching Assistant
2018 DANCE 3401: Dance in Popular Culture, Teaching Assistant
Zenon Dance School (Minneapolis, MN)
2017 Intermediate Modern, Substitute,
2016 Intermediate/Advanced Modern, Substitute
Dancing People Company (Ashland, OR)
2011-2016 High School Residencies (four 2-week residencies/year)
2011-2016 Dance Improvisation for Adults
2015-2016 Intermediate Modern Dance for Adults
2014-2015 Beginning Movement for Adults
2013-2015 SummerDANCE Intensive
Other Teaching Experience
2017-present Facilitator, Columbus Contact Improvisation Jam (Columbus, OH)
2017-2019 Choreographer, Basilica Summer Music and Arts Immersion Camp (Minneapolis, MN)
2018-2019 Teacher/Facilitator, Flux + Flow Contact Improvisation Jam (Columbus, OH)
2017 Guest Artist, ISD 196 Dance Festival (Apple Valley, MN)
2016-2017 Substitute Teacher, Minnesota Independent School Districts 191 and 196 (Twin Cities Metro Area, MN)
2016 Guest Teacher, Modern III at St. Olaf College (Northfield, MN)
2014-2016 Facilitator, Contact Improvisation Jam (Ashland, OR)
RESEARCH
CHOREOGRAPHY
Windows Become Mirrors at Night, a 20-min group piece and interactive installation. Collab. with Visual Artist Amery Kessler and Composer Micah Speller
(anticipated, MFA Thesis Project)
Jan 2020 Urban Arts Space (Columbus, OH)
Vasifis, Oxipit, Unknown A, and Sylv, 7-min quartet
Apr 2019 Barnett Theater (Columbus, OH)
Wounds Note Mine to Lick, 12-min autoethnographic solo
May 2018 Barnett Theater (Columbus, OH)
Rupture Front, 5-min duet
Apr 2018 Barnet Theater (Columbus, OH)
Les Chants de Nectaire, 4-min solo Collab. with flutist, Daniel Gallagher
Feb 2018 Weigel Auditorium (Columbus, OH)
Chaotic Neutral, 6-min high school students group piece
Feb 2016 Central Point Performing Arts Center (Central Point, OR)
A Mind Changing Effect, 5-min high school student group piece
Feb 2015 Eagle Point High School Auditorium (Eagle Point, OR)
Dwellers’ Advance, 3.5-min high school student group piece
May 2012 Central Point Performing Arts Center (Central Point, OR)
Errant Soul, 5-min duet Collab. with Berit Nelson
May 2010 Kelsey Theater, Northfield, MN
Apr 2010 Bryant Lake Bowl, Minneapolis, MN
VIDEO, INSTALLATION, & PHOTOGRAPHY
Window Project, interactive installation using a Makey Makey, Isadora, and video projection
Apr 2019 ACCAD Open House (Columbus, OH)
Dec 2018 Devising Experiential Media Systems Open House (Columbus, OH)
pour la liberté, 3.5 min dance film
Dec 2018 Joinville International Fort Film Festival (Joinville, Brazil)
Apr 2018 Iowa International Film Festival (Iowa City, IA)
Apr 2018 Ohio Shorts, Wexner Center for the Arts (Columbus, OH)
Sep 2018 (Semi-Finalist) Thessaloniki Cinedance International, (Thessaloniki, Greece)
Sharpie, 10 second animated 16mm film loop
Nov 2018 Cinema Expanded exhibition at Hopkins Hall Gallery (Columbus, OH)
Swing State, a 10-min video installation for the gallery
Nov 2018 Cinema Expanded exhibition at Hopkins Hall Gallery (Columbus, OH)
Portal’s Edge, dance film, 3.5-min.
Apr 2018
Fissures in the Day, dance film, 3-min.
Oct 2016 Rinse, dance film, 4-min.
2015 Rogue Valley TV (Ashland, OR)
Dec 2014 Sketches (Ashland, OR)
The Process of Dreaming, Photography Showcase
2014 Exhibited in the DPC Studio (Ashland, OR)
PERFORMANCE
CONTEMPORARY
Two, Chor. Katherine Moore
Mar 2019 Wellspring Theater, Rad Fest (Kalamazoo, MI)
Feb 2018 Barnett Theater (Columbus, OH)
Room Loom, Dir. Claire Melbourne
Jan 2019 Urban Arts Space (Columbus, OH)
Pie Equals Square, Chor. Paula Mann
Aug 2018 Zoo Southside, Edinburgh Fringe Festival (Edinburgh, Scotland)
Jul 2018 Crane Theatre (Minneapolis, MN)
Aug 2017 Tek Box (Minneapolis, MN)
Dancing People Company, Dir. Robin Stiehm—full-time company member
Selected Repertoire
2013-2017 Ephemeral Lifetimes, Chor. Robin Stiehm
2016-2017 Up, Chor. Robin Stiehm
2014-2017 Falling from the Horizon, Chor. Robin Stiehm
2011-2016 Gritty Interval, Chor. Robin Stiehm
2016 Oh So Holy, Chor. Erin Drummond
2016 Here We Are, Chor. Walter Kennedy
2013-2014 Slippery, Chor. Robin Stiehm
2013 Love and Navigation, Chor. Robin Stiehm
2013 Aspects of the Heart, Chor. Robin Stiehm
2013 Numbers Game, Chor. Robin Stiehm
2013 Seems Like I’ve Known You Forever, Chor. Robin Stiehm
2011-2013 Vapor Shape, Chor. Robin Stiehm
2012 Solo, Chor. Robin Stiehm
2011-2012 Threshold, Chor. Robin Stiehm
2010-2011 Chance Make Luck, Chor. Robin Stiehm
Selected Touring
2017 Candy Box, Southern Theater (Minneapolis, MN)
2015 Seattle International Dance Festival, Raisbeck Hall (Seattle, WA)
2014 D.i.D: Dance in Dialogue, Hult Center (Eugene, OR)
2014 D.i.D: Dance in Dialogue, Dougherty Dance Theatre (Eugene, OR)
2013 University of Oregon, Dougherty Dance Theatre (Eugene, OR)
2013 Seattle International Dance Festival, Raisbeck Hall (Seattle, WA)
2013 Conduit Dance (Portland, OR)
2012 James Sewell TEKBOX (Minneapolis, MN)
2012 OPEN LOOK International Dance Festival (St. Petersburg, Russia)
Not so good at standing still and Matador, Chor. Mathew Jancezewski
Nov 2016 Fitzgerald Theater (St. Paul, MN)
Dead Lizard Woman, Chor. Erin Drummond
May 2016 A Mill Performance Hall (Minneapolis, MN)
IMPROVISATION
The Maya Project, Dir. Kathryn Nusa Logan
Apr 2019 Wexner Film/Video Theater (Columbus, OH)
Oct 2018 Hopkins Hall Gallery (Columbus, OH)
The Devil’s Music, 8-min duet Collab. with Doug Hooker
Jul 2015 Dancing People Company Studio, Ashland, OR
Tuning Scores and Blind Lovin’, Contact Improvisation Dir. Karen Nelson
Feb 2014 Dancing People Company Studio (Ashland, OR)
Untitled, 15-min Contact Improvisation with Collab. with Stu Phillips
May 2012 Shotwell Studios (San Francisco, CA)
Sketches, 10-min Contact Improvisation duet with Ian Leupker
May 2012 Dancing People Company Studio, Ashland, OR
Untitled, Contact Improvisation Dir. Alito Alessi
Mar 2012 Breitenbush North Wing (Detroit, OR)
Untitled, Collab. with Stu Phillips
Mar 2012 Breitenbush North Wing (Detroit, OR)
COMMERCIAL
Weird Al Yankovic’s Smells Like Nirvana live. Chor. Robin Stiehm
Sep 2015 Britt Festival Main Stage (Jacksonville, OR)
Adele’s Chasing Pavements official music video. Chor. Marguerite Derricks. Dir. Matthew Cullen
Nov 2007 (Los Angeles, CA)
GRANTS, AWARDS, SCHOLARSHIPS
2019-2020 Alumni Grants for Graduate Research and Scholarship, Ohio State University
2019-2020 Livable Futures Discovery Theme Grant, Ohio State University
2019 Semester Funding Initiative, Ohio State University
2017-2018 University Fellowship, Ohio State University
2018 Arts and Humanities Small Grant, Ohio State University
2018 Semester Funding Initiative, Ohio State University
2018 Ray Travel Award for Service and Scholarship, Ohio State University
2008-2010 Wagner-Bundgaard Endowed Scholarship for Dance, St. Olaf College
2009 Cooperative Scholarship, St. Olaf College and American Dance Festival
CONFERENCES
2019 Dance/USA Conference (Cleveland, OH)
2018 Dance Studies Association Conference (Valletta, Malta)
Presented “Not All Diasporas Are Created Equal: The Lebanese Diasporas Confinement to Oriental Dance”
2017 Dance Studies Association Conference (Columbus, OH)
2014 Dance/USA Conference (Minneapolis, MN)
SERVICE
2019 Volunteer, Graduation Celebration, The Ohio State University’s Department of Dance (Columbus, OH)
2018-2019 Vice President, Dancers in Graduate School Student Group, The Ohio State University (Columbus, OH)
2018-2019 Volunteer, MFA Audition, Department of Dance, The Ohio State University (Columbus, OH)
2018 Volunteer, Alumni Lunch, Department of Dance, The Ohio State University (Columbus, OH)
2018-2018 Social Media and Publicity Officer, Dancers in Graduate School Student Group, The Ohio State University (Columbus, OH)
2019 Proctor, Hayes Research Forum Proctor, Counsel of Graduate Students, The Ohio State University (Columbus, OH)
2017 Volunteer, Feed My Starving Children (Eagan, MN)
2017 Volunteer, Dance Studies Association Conference (Columbus, OH)
2017 Volunteer, Oxford University Press Book Table (Columbus, OH)
2016 Rehearsal Assistant, Erin Drummond’s Dead Lizard Woman (Minneapolis, MN)
2011-2016 Dancer, MLK Celebration (Central Point, OR)
2015 Dancer, Daedalus Project (Ashland, OR)
2013 Dancer, Raise Your Heart (Ashland, OR)
2013 Dancer, American Association of University Women’s Award Ceremony (Ashland, OR)
2009-2010 Mentor, Reaching Our Goals (Northfield, MN)
2010 Developer, SummerREACH Service Learning (Northfield, MN)
ADMINISTRATIVE EXPERIENCE
2019-2020 Organizer of Workshop with Visiting Artist, Andrew Suseno, Parcon Resilience
2019-2020 MFA Student Representative, Graduate Studies Committee, Department of Dance, The Ohio State University (Columbus, OH)
2010-2017 Website Maintenance and Office Assistant at Reprise Design Architecture & Planning (Burnsville, MN)
2010-2016 Social Media Manager, Dancing People Company (Ashland, OR)
2010-2016 Assistant to Project Manager, In Tandem Marketing (St. Paul, MN)
PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
2016-present Dance Studies Association/Congress on Dance in Research (member)
2016-present National Dance Education Organization (member)
2018-present Dance Films Association (member)
