ARTISTIC STATEMENT

My mission is to entertain, enlighten, and engage you in new and exciting ways. Four things specific to performance absolutely fascinate me:

First is feminist performance art and the telling of women’s stories—both fictional and real—on and through the body.

Second is language, character, and theatrical storytelling, and the ways text can be spoken, embodied, disrupted, heightened, or transformed through performance.

Third is embodied performance and the ways in which the human condition is physically investigated and expressed through movement, image, and music.

Fourth is pushing the boundaries of the performer/spectator relationship and asking the audience to actively engage with the work.

Often, these four intertwine and weave themselves together.

My work has taken many forms: original theatrical writing performed through monologue, character, and spoken word, movement and butoh-based work, performance for the camera, installation, intimate and immersive performance, and extensive site-specific and site-responsive work. Across all of it is the same drive to create—to turn lived experience, ideas, images, language, and the body into something immediate and shared through performance.

FUNNY LADIES

Gilda Radner, Jennifer Saunders, Kate McKinnon, Tracy Ullman, Lilly Tomlin, Carol Burnett, Sandra Bernhard, Bette Midler, Laura Ramoso

PERFORMANCE ARTISTS

Bobby Baker, Guillermo Gomez Pena, Pablo Helguera, Karen Finley, Annie Sprinkle, Carolee Schneemann

 LUMINARY TEACHERS

Margaret H’Doubler, Stanislavski, M. Checkhov, Grotowski, Brecht, Boleslawski, Artaud, Zofia Kalinska/Teudez Kantor, Paul J.Curtis

CHOREOGRAPHERS

Pina Bausch, Jerome Robbins, Balanchine, Lloyd Newson/DV8, Paul Taylor, Martha Graham

THERIORISTS/PHILOSOPHERS

Helene Cixous, Luc Irigary, Simone de Beauvoir, Jill Dolan, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Sarte, Hobbes, Locke

WRITERS

Hermann Hesse, Kamus, Margaret Atwood, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Virginia Woolf, Pablo Neruda

COMPOSERS/MUSICIANS

Philip Glass, Pink Floyd, Bach, Chopin, Debussy, Copeland,

PHILOSOPHIES

Political Aesthetic Philosophy, Feminist Performance Theory, Performativity, Existentialism, Experiential Learning