Performance
Performance uses movement,
costume, set, sound, and
collaborations to explore how
interconnectivities to this earth deity
function. As individualities and
identities rise and fall in our
experience on this planet, one
thing becomes clear: we are never
truly separate from it. Costumes
suggest rituals that could become
the hallmark of this spirituality.
Ways of identifying and expressing
these more meaningful
experiences in patterns that can
express experience from the
personal to the communal. Actions
that anyone can jump into to
feel the calm of belonging, to be
an actor in a universal story.
Moments when an individual
points back to the human drama
inwhich we all particpate. And the
opportunity for anyone to observe
or be a part.
The Door Was Right Here, 2025
Performance and video
13 min.
Collaboration with Jasmine
Albuquerque Croissant and Wren
Ossman
Using a piece of audio from the
real moment Jasmine returned to
the childhood home she shared
with her mother to see it
annhilated in the Woolsey fire of
2018, this piece explores loss and its
effect over time. Held in a literal
suspension in the trees, the set and
clothing created a sacred space
for her to reengage this
experience in real time identifying
what had passed and what lay
buried. The forest holds her as the
ground slowly swallows her and
everything that identifies and
protects her in a slow and
painful but redemptive burial.
Water and earth are the amniotic
fluid from which she is reborn.
It is clear this kind of loss is always
changing. Like a scar, it is
unresolved. I co-created sound,
set, and costume for this work.
Stability/Instability, 2015
Lycra costume with 4 synthetic wigs
and black and white makeup.
Photo: Andrew Johnston
Dancers: Tiffany Sweat, Sara Jester,
Irene Urias, Natalya Oliver
Constructed as a multiple person
costume that could be used by
anyone, this work explores
Jungian concepts of intact
and unknown personalities that
simultaneously inhabit the
unconscious. Presented as a
landscape, the selves are pushed
to the front like a proscenium
stage. Working together and
against each other is a natural
effect of the container. The
uniformity of the hair and
makeup creates contrasting
instincts to conform and rebel.
This piece was used for a music
video for Hi Fashion, a
collaboration with Jen DeMartino,
on a song called “Where is the
Party?”
“Where is the Party?’
Video: Hi Fashion
Director: Rene Vas
DP: Robby Hart
Choreo: Danny Dolan
Dancers: Tiffany Sweat,
Ayesha Orange, Kathryn
Burns, Jamila Glass