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A Study of Two Squatting Women (Unfinished)
Inspired by Egon Schiele's work of the same name, two women are tethered together in a moment of time, moving forward with their corporal antennas out navigating the tension, pulls, shifts and balances in life. Asking us all to honor where we are now.
#wildflower
#wildflower is a solo study distilling simple tasks of opening and closing inviting images of femininity, cycles and age to reveal themselves through time and repetition. Teamed up again with collaborator and costume designer Jennifer Paar, a white tent dress that sheds when shaken is made to look like seeds scattered in the wind hoping to find footing where they land; resilient and belonging.
almost
almost explores perspectives in how we see ourselves and each other through interactive performance and design, co-created with designers Larry Jackson and Jennifer Paar, and performers Stacy Lynn Smith and C. Tai Tai. Premiered at CPR – Center for Performance Research, June 24-26, 2022.
Jitterbug and the Aftermath
A raw, expressionistic movement-theater work exploring an unmoored feminine identity at midlife. The piece wrestles with social conceptions of a diminishing feminine cachet, the confusion of “post-feminist” gender roles, and aging as a slow corporeal death.
Definitive Figures
Definitive Figures is a festival of performance and community events created to amplify the femme body in space. Definitive Figures aims to elevate and explore feminist ideas while negotiating our plural identities of race, class, and sex in a patriarchal society.
'same SAME'
'same SAME' cycles through three groups of performers depicting the collective pull towards group sameness and the individual tensions to break free. Set in a public space, the audience becomes an element to the work with people passing by, staying to witness and yearning to belong.
L. Hartke
In, L. Hartke, a figure emerges and then dissolves into a luxurious river of slow, sensual rolling women. Time switches and the female figure is seen as an animal in captivity or a dancer in a young girl’s music box. She is trapped, safe, screaming and beautiful all at once.