About me: I’ve been an embodied-knower-through-dancing for 32 years, having trained in somatic practices — systems that have been codified to sense and make sense starting from the perspective of the thinking body — for the last decade+. I have experience facilitating and teaching movement workshops for all ages in a variety of contexts, and I hope to connect with you in the studio and beyond. I am in constant dialogue with many incredible artists, teachers, and embodied knowers, including (in 2023, recently) Mariana Viana through her BodyWeather practice, Connor Voss’ Feldenkrais Community Class, Marielys Burgos’s BodyPortals work via MELT at Movement Research, Tyler Rai’s Art/Life Tamalpa sessions, and other techniques & transmissions that influence my own teaching practice.

Accessibility statement: All embodied histories, cosmologies of practice, communication styles, and comfort levels with movement are invited. Please reach out with any Disability and Accessibility questions in relation to the following offerings, including the possibility of live Captioning, working in other languages, and sliding scale fees. Welcome!

MVMT

MVMT is a 1-on-1 workshop : 60 minutes

MVMT, which stands for multi-valent movement transits is an hour-long individual session open to whoever feels called to observe, honor, and experience your own visceral doings. You can expect a combination of movement practices, thought recipes, and body-based scores to help you to tune in, rest, move, and re-pattern. Via the open-source video conferencing playform Jisi or in person.

MVMT is DONATION-BASED!

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Sur les rives (At river’s edge)

Co-facilitated in collaboration with Montpellier-based performance researcher Alix de Morant.

Full day workshop investigating embodiment and sense-making through the study with the shapeshifting forms of water.

Teaching History: Theatre de la Cite International in Paris, Theatre & Climat symposium (day-long), autumn 2020 & Universite de Rimouski in Quebec (virtually presented, 2 parts), spring 2022.

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Collaborative Precarity Bodyhacking

Co-facilitated in collaboration with Elae [Lynne DaSilva Johnson] & Cory Tamler in New York.

Cross-disciplinary workshop addressing precarity’s trauma-resonant effects on mind and body programming. We employ individual and group work that includes writing, performance, movement, breathwork, mindfulness, and dialogue. We make space for reading, ritual, and emergent documentation. No previous experience in any of these
disciplines is necessary, and exercises are adaptable to the needs and abilities of different bodies.

Teaching History: Hosted by Exponential Festival in conjunction with resistance fantasies symposium of somatic experiments at Target Margin Theater, January 2019.

For documentation of this workshop, visit the archive.

Morning Class

Choreographic practices & sustainability

A portable workshop series for dancers & people with movement practice, which incorporates intersecting systems of embodiment, somatics, dance, perception, and choreographing. You can expect a full body-mind warm up, scores to arrive in the space, dialogue, partner work, repatterning exercises, and dancing.

Teaching History: Used as a daily warm up & generative practice in rehearsal for my projects; taught recently at 3 bis f – centre d’arts contemporains through their “SESSION” program for teaching artists-in-residence.

To bring this workshop series to your studio, program, or institution, please send me a message.

Open-level Movement

In this class, movement becomes a tool for storytelling, relationship building, and playful experimentation.

Teaching History: With Sprat Artistic Ensemble & The Neon Museum, for elders and teenagers (2012 – 2018). In the context of Phoebe Berglund’s teaching artist residency at MoMA P.S.1 in collaboration with Wendell Grey & Katie Dean, for highschool students (2018). In the context of an artist residency at Chez Bushwick Studio, New York, for grade-school children (2017). In the context of summer festival “Possible Futures” at 3 bis f – centre d’arts contemporains and Hospital Montperrin for neurodivergent and non-neurodivergent adults (2022).

To incorporate this class into your programming and to hear more about my experience working with specific populations, please send me a message.

After a sensory walk in the garden.
Here teaching a morning class at 3 bis f – centre d’arts contemporains through their “Sessions” frame, which provides an opportunity for their Artists in Residence to share practices.
Aix-en-Provence, Spring 2022.