ARTISTIC STATEMENT

The Five Fascinations

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

First is Cabaret Performance Art, a method I created where text, character, and theatrical storytelling are embodied, disrupted, heightened, and transformed through performance.

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

Third is site-specific and site-responsive work, and the ways place, environment, and context shape the creation and experience of art, installation, and performance.

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

Fifth is the performance art process as visual art itself, and the ways the acts of making and documenting performance become the visual artwork.

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 site-specific and site-responsive work.

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

VISUAL ARTISTS
Charlotte Salomon, Frida Kahlo, Henri Matisse, Matthew Barney, Robert Mapplethorpe

COMPOSERS/MUSICIANS

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

PHILOSOPHIES

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