this page will soon have more info about my work in the field
but for now there’s an unceremonious list below
current working as a dancer on a new project led by Heather Kravas
SELECTED PERFORMER EXPERIENCE
2016 Dancer, play, thing, Heather Kravas, The Chocolate Factory Theater
2013-15 Performer, various works, Walter Dundervill
2012 Dancer, FEELingpleasuresatisfactioncelebrationholyFORM, luciana achugar, Abrons Art Center
Performer, The Ladies, Maria Hassabi, various locations
2011 Dancer, BEAU REGARD, Susan Rethorst, Danspace Project
Dancer, Instruction Construction, robbinschilds, PS1
2010 Re-performer, The Artist Is Present, Marina Abramović, MoMA
Dancer, ring, lead, her, Heather Kravas, Abrons Arts Center
Dancer, I Am Saying Goodnight, Amanda Loulaki, International Dance Festival (Sarajevo, BiH)
Dancer, PARK, Kathy Westwater, Dance Theater Workshop, Fresh Kills Park; GRASSLANDS, Dixon Place
Dancer, THE WAY (you make me feel), Katy Pyle, Danspace Project
2009 Dancer, Sonya and Layla Go Camping, robbinschilds, The Kitchen, Mount Tremper Arts, Images Festival
2008 Dancer, MOTHERSHIP, Jillian Peña, Dance Theater Workshop
Dancer, Really Intense Piece, robbinschilds, Dixon Place
Dancer, [untitled], Sarah White-Ayon, Dead Horse Bay / iLAND
2006 Dancer, Seriously Heavy, robbinschilds, Autumn Skate Bowl
Dancer, Maynard, Modern Garage Movement (6 week west coast tour)
Dancer, Star Fiction, Michael Helland, Joyce Soho
2005 Dancer, the birds are here. I hear them. Rebecca Davis, The Chocolate Factory
AWARDS / RESIDENCIES
2016-18 Teaching Fellowship, Bennington College (Bennington, VT)
2015 Gibney Dance Center, boo-koo residency (New York, NY)
2014 Mount Tremper Arts, artist residency (Mount Tremper, NY)
2013-14 LEIMAY Fellow, year-long residency (Brooklyn, NY)
2013 Rockbridge Artist Exchange, artist residency (Lexington, VA)
2013 TIMESHARE, artist residency (Brooklyn, NY)
PERFORMANCE ADVISOR
Part movement coach, part somatic dramaturg, part artistic consultant, part outside eye, as Performance Advisor I work in support of all the artists involved in a production. I help direct the emergence of the work, through and from the thinking bodies.
2024 overly merry, Heather Kravas, The Chocolate Factory Theater (Queens, NY))
2015-16 MASS, Milka Djordjevich, American Realness Festival, The Kitchen, Show Box L.A. (Los Angeles, CA)
2013-14 a quartet, Heather Kravas, The Kitchen, On The Boards (Seattle, WA)
2013 Kinetic Makeover, Milka Djordjevich, The Chocolate Factory Theater (Queens, NY)
2011 The Green Surround, Heather Kravas, P.S.122 (NY, NY)
CHOREOGRAPHIC / PERFORMANCE WORKS in Martha Hill Dance Theater at Bennington College
2018 New Noes Trio: trio
Angelina: sextet
2017 Why Dance Now?: 12 dancers
Family Bed: 12 dancers
2016 (deer emoji), dear: sextet
sandwich: solo for two
CHOREOGRAPHIC / PERFORMANCE WORKS (New York, NY unless otherwise noted)
2025 no no solo, CATCH Hudson Valley
2018 NO SOLO, Movement Research Festival Fall 2018 at Danspace Project
2017 Family Bed, Pieter Performance Art Space (Los Angeles, CA)
a portrait: sandwich, redux, DANCEROULETTE at Roulette
2015 another actual dance, informal showing at Gibney Dance Center
SAFER, Movement Research at the Judson Church
SAFER, DANCEROULETTE at Roulette
2014 an actual dance, SOAK Festival, CAVE
Still Left On This Rock, Danspace Project
2013 YALA, Danspace Project’s “Performing The Precarious” at Come Together: Surviving Sandy, Industry City
Left On This Rock, TIMESHARE, Arts @ Renaissance
S.S., “Contemporary Dancing” program, New Art Dealers Alliance Fair
A Tour Thru the L.E.S., “Contemporary Dancing” program, New Art Dealers Alliance Fair
2011 Re-Veil, Not Festival, Greenspan Center
Miracle Tear, Dance Films Association, Solar 1
Holy Face, CATCH.45, Abrons Arts Center
Veil of Veronica, Veronica Peoples Club
2008 JERK: BEACHES, Danspace Project’s Food for Thought
JERK ON THE WOOD SONG, Monkeytown
JERK ON HOLD ON: trio, Movement Research Spring Festival 2008 at Judson Memorial Church
JERK ON HOLD ON: duet, Catch! at Starr Street Projects
(JERK = dance band with members Rebecca Brooks, Eleanor Hullihan, Jillian Peña, Katy Pyle)
2007 Mouth End, Brink at Dixon Place
Colt, Food For Thought at Danspace Project
Horsey, Catch! at LaMaMa Moves Festival
Ok then let’s do this together now, Women’s Performance Festival at Brooklyn Arts Exchange
2006 Choir, Crossing Boundaries at Dixon Place
KILL!KILL! - otherDANCE at Lobot Gallery (Oakland CA), Body Blend at Dixon Place
Lesbian Alien Fantasy School, performances at several AUNTS events
CURATORIAL / OTHER PROJECTS
2014 Co-Curator, Movement Research Festival Fall 2014: MATTERING, Danspace Project & other locations
2009-12 Program Manager, Movement Research
2009-13 Co-Artistic Director, Rockbridge Artist Exchange (Lexington, VA)
2007 Co-Curator, Movement Research Festival Spring 2007: Reverence (Irreverence)
2005 Co-Founder, Co-Director, AUNTS
BOARD SERVICE
2014-ongoing Before Your Eyes
2018-2023. Ballez