EDUCATION
Northwestern University, MA Performance Studies, Evanston IL 2016
University of California Davis, MFA Dramatic Arts, Davis CA 2014
University of California Santa Cruz, CASFS, Certificate in Ecological Horticulture SC CA 2000
Trinity College, BA English Literature, Hartford CT 1995
DANCE & PERFORMANCE TRAINING
School for New Dance Development (SNDO) Amsterdam, NL 1998
Moving On Center School for Participatory Arts and Research, Oakland CA 1995-7
Trinity La Mama Program, NY NY 1992
SELECTED PROJECTS
Sensoria: An Opera Strange, Danspace Project, NY NY 2022
Letters to Marsha with Viewing Hours (a diptych), JACK, Brooklyn NY 2020
Viewing Hours, 8th Floor Gallery/Rubin Foundation, NY NY 2020
Letters to Marsha with Viewing Hours, Mount Tremper Arts, Phoenicia, New York 2019
Entropy’s Garden & Viewing Hours, The Kitchen, NY NY 2019
Untitled, Judson Church NY NY 2019
Letters to Marsha, Judson Church, NY NY 2018
IWB: Dancing In The Hold, Gibney NY NY 2018
iwb: glossolalia in the flesh - dance/text/voice, Northwestern University, Evanston IL 2016
RUPTURE, Ponderosa Movement and Discovery, Stolzenhagen, Germany 2015
Improvising While Black (IWB): The Wreck Part 2, Davis CA 2014
The Wreck: Improvising While Black (IWB), Davis CA 2013
Sugar Blues Dance/text African and African American Culture Complex, SF CA 2011
Sometimes Beauty Can Counteract Economics Dance/Install, Gallery, Oakland, CA 2009
The Healing Dance/Performance Art, Mama Calizo’s Voice Factory, SF CA 2008
Strange fruit Install/Dance, Million Fishes Gallery Space, SF CA 2007
Tired Soldier Install/Performance, Million Fishes Gallery, SF CA 2006
COLLABORATIONS
MoMA Residency with Okwui Okpokwasili, NY, NY 2022
On the way, undone with Okwui Okpokwasili, NY, NY 2021
How to be Afraid with Mary Pearson Liverpool, London UK & Zagreb Croatia 2017-2021
Chameleon with Jaamil Kosoko NY NY 2018-2021
Reverend Billy and the Church of Stop Shopping Choir, New York, NY 2015--2018
Improvising While Black (IWB): The Wreck Part 2, Davis CA 2014
Isabella’s Dream choreographed by Henry Daniel, UC Davis Nelson Gallery, Davis CA 2014
Flash: A New Choreography, directed by Qudus Onikeku, UCD Main Theatre, Davis CA 2013
The Wreck: Improvising While Black Install #1 with Kevin O’Connor, Arena Theatre, Davis CA 2013
Las Lloronas, UC Davis Main Theatre, Edge Festival, Davis CA 2013
Wall Ball, Flyaway Productions Aerial Dance Co. directed by Jo Kreiter, SF CA 2011
Singing Praises, Flyaway Productions Aerial Dance Co. directed by Jo Kreiter, SF CA 2010
The Ballad of Polly Ann, Flyaway Productions Aerial Dance Co. directed by Jo Kreiter, SF CA 2009
Parlor Games directed by Monique Jenkinson, dance/performance, De Young Museum, SF CA 2009
Intersection of the Timeless Moment w/Lindsay King, dance/installation, Million Fishes, SF CA 2007
Epithemia with Andrew Wass, Video/Dance, Million Fishes Collective, SF CA 2006
Chosen/Mercy with Circo Zero, directed by Keith Hennessey, Dance Mission SF CA 2004-05
Love Dances w/Mn Rua Dance, choreographed by Tara Brandel, 848 Community Space, SF, CA 2003
FILM/VIDEO
Whale Fall, In Collaboration with filmmaker Suzi Sadler, Abrons Arts Center, NY NY 2021
Improvising While Black, UC Davis, Davis CA 2012
Fugitive Dreams, Djerassi Artist in Residence, Woodside CA 2010
Erzulie’s Tears, SF CA 2006
Dances in Shadow and Light Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA 2005
All God's Children Got Colonized Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA 2005
Portrait Personal portrait video performance--dance, story, song. Video by Indira Suganda, SF CA 2001
AWARDS & HONORS
Hodder Fellow, Princeton University, Princeton NJ 2022-23
Bessie Nomination for Whale Fall film, NY NY 2021
Merce Cunningham Award, Dance, Foundation for Contemporary Arts, 2021
Curatorial Advisor, Gibney NY NY 2019 WOW/UNY Governors Island Artist in Residence NY, NY 2018
Movement Research 2017 Artist in Residence (AIR) NY, NY 2017
Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship, Northwestern University 2016
Graduate Research Mentorship Fellowship, University of CA Davis (UCD) 2013-2014
Consortium for Women & Research Graduate Research Award, UCD 2013-2014
Tenderloin National Forest Artist in Residence, SF CA 2011
Djerassi Artist in Residence, Woodland CA 2010
Headlands Center for the Arts AIR, Sausalito CA 2004
Fellowship: Bucknell Seminar for Younger Poets Bucknell University 1993
First Prize: John Curtis Underwood Memorial Prize in Poetry, Trinity College 1993