Portfolio

CO-DIRECTOR, CHOREOGRAPHER, PERFORMER | 2008 with NEW ARTICULATIONS DANCE THEATRE & COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF SOUTHERN ARIZONA The project used modern dance and personal and community stories to reveal how food connects us to each other, our environment, and our everyday lives. We Are What We Eat performances explored topics such as the industrial food system and food miles, the joys and benefits of gardening, overeating, waste & compost, harvesting native mesquite pods, cooking and recipes, breastfeeding, and grapefruit gleaning. To create the performance, co-director Amanda Morse and I engaged middle- and high school students, Pascua Yaqui seniors, Mexican and Mexican-American adults in Family Literacy … Read more

CO-DIRECTOR | 2006 | with NEW ARTICULATIONS DANCE THEATRE Re:Configurations was an evening-length performance focusing on issues of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender identity and partnership that premiered in Tucson, Nov. 2006.  I co-directed the show with Jennifer Hoefle. The performance featured the participation of ten LGBT community members between the ages of 18 and 68, recruited with the help of Wingspan, Tucson’s LGBT resource center. Hoefle and I facilitated eight weekend workshops during which participants developed movement and writing material that was used to shape the performance. Community sections wove together seven dances by Tucson choreographers from who created new work or “reconfigured” existing … Read more