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You Are Kind Of Like A Hairy Stranger I Know 2013
Photography by Hans Speigelaar. This is a work I made in 2013, my first year of SNDO (School for new dance development, Amsterdam). You Are Kind Of Like A Hairy Stranger I Know (YAKOLAHSIK), is a quirky, intimate look at both the complexity of the universe and the hair that gets stuck in your shower…
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Entrance to The Leopard Society.
I woke, my skin peeling, large white flakes, my epidermal identity coming off in chunks. Unstoppable shedding, several layers at a time, my bark was unfurling, my banana was peeled, my paint all but cracked away. Talk about identity crisis. Underneath I found a small rolled piece of paper, a letter from the tooth fairy– …
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Fears Journal. Beginnings.
As part of research for a new work I am creating I have started the practice of free writing all the things I am afraid of. I do this with the intention of being able to see and concretize what they (my fears) are and in doing so be able to lessen their impact, challenge…
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A series of Introductions. 2011. Silco Dance
A series of Introductions is a work exploring one man’s caricatured experiences through the modern dating scene, looking specifically at desire, control and manipulation. Choreography: Deb Silver in collaboration with Tony Nilsson, Tiana Hemlock-Yenson, and Milvia Pacheco Salvatierra Music: Eleni Mandell, Bill Withers, and Kat Edmonson It was a funny and rocking adventure working on this piece. To…
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The PWP. 2010
I have been involved with the People Watch Project since it started in 2010. The PWP is an ongoing informal dance experience that takes form in public spaces and it has been developed by Deborah Silver the director of Silco Dance. The intention is to draw people out of their everyday activity and invite…
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Salad of the Bad Cafe. 2010. Creature Theater.
Creature Theater is the name CJ Holm gives her dancemaking activities. The Creature is we, me, and everybody–the inevitable animal aspect of humanity. This was a work I did in collaboration with her that was shown at Irondale Theater in Brooklyn as part of FLICfest and was also presented at Judson Church as part of STUFFED…
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Future. Future? Testing 1, 2…
As I sit here reading articles from Culturebot (here is one of them if you are interested: http://www.culturebot.net/2013/01/15625/3-questions-on-the-economy-from-keith-hennessy-to-al-steiner-and-marten-spangberg/ ) on the queries and qualms of musea and the future of performance/ art/ dance I am both inspired and also in a mild state of panic. Having been living and working in New York for the past four…
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Witches: In three parts
Part 1: The search “Ding, dong, the witch is…” “Hey stop that! She’ll hear you. You can’t go singing about like that in these parts.” “Ding dong.” They stood quietly away from the door and waited… Scuffling was heard inside and the sound of someone turning the door handle. The children stiffened. Their minds…
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How big were you thinking?
I just came back from watching a documentary on Ai Wei Wei and I am floored. I am excited by the determination and possibility he opens up by his art/ existence and confronted by the comparatively menial and ridiculous “problems” that I believe that I face. The hurdles and limitations, the boundaries that I am…
