For the past twenty years, I have conceived, facilitated, developed, and directed immersive, interdisciplinary, ensemble-based performances, often created in partnership with diverse communities. My work is rooted in a devised, collaborative process that involves extensive research and development, resourced through grants, sponsorships, fellowships, and city partnerships. Designers and actors collaborate to craft new works, often staged in site-responsive or unconventional spaces.
I create a world in layers and over time with multiple research and development phases. Usually this begins through music. Sounds inspire stage images, which in turn leads me to research, which brings me to new images and thus a world forms. I then present this world to a team of collaborators where we write the material together through improvisations, games, movement and discussion. I believe “writing” is a holistic process. Words, sound, image, space and movement all tell a story. It is the synthesis of these elements together, the rhythm of their integration, that can and does create meaning.
Work that resonates for me is physical, image based, sensory, brave, precise, asks questions without being too earnest and is playful without pretension.
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I create a world in layers and over time with multiple research and development phases. Usually this begins through music. Sounds inspire stage images, which in turn leads me to research, which brings me to new images and thus a world forms. I then present this world to a team of collaborators where we write the material together through improvisations, games, movement and discussion. I believe “writing” is a holistic process. Words, sound, image, space and movement all tell a story. It is the synthesis of these elements together, the rhythm of their integration, that can and does create meaning.
Work that resonates for me is physical, image based, sensory, brave, precise, asks questions without being too earnest and is playful without pretension.
See Reviews/Press here.
