Choreography & Curation

CURRENT AND RECENT PROJECTS

/I/ Is For Arm // with Steve Liggett, October 5, 2024 // Liggett Studio

CURATOR // SHE PERFORMS: Concurrent, March 26-27, 2021 // Liggett Studio + livestream

CURATOR AND CO-DIRECTOR // Exchange Choreography Festival, July 23-25, 2020 // ONLINE

CHOREOGRAPHER AND DIRECTOR // “Wait,” a work for two actors and two dancers based on my original script // premiere: July 26, 2019, Tulsa Performing Arts Center, created with support from The Bell House // cast: Jolie Hossack, Tabitha Littlefield, Nash Wayne McQuarters, Tyne Shillingford // photos by Nathan Harmon

Since 2011 I have created or co-created nearly two dozen original works of dance. Often site-responsive, often using text and original music, often rooted in the earth of myth. From 2012 to 2016 I co-directed Tulsa Modern Movement, where I collaborated on large-scale pieces with local dancers, visual artists, and musicians.

I love big physical landscapes but intimate, crystalline small ones just as much or more. Improvisation, intuition, and editing. Faith that a body in space already knows the where and the what; it’s our job to honor it, coax it out, help it show itself, listen.

Curating events as different as "Come Closer: An Evening of Intimate Dance" for Living Arts of Tulsa and the EXCHANGE Choreography Festival for The Bell House has challenged and educated me. I look forward to expanding in this direction in years to come.

SELECTED WORKS AS CHOREOGRAPHER OR COLLABORATING ARTIST

2011

Nine

Vision Field (dance for camera with Megan McKown and Geoffrey Hicks)

Hemisphere (with Megan McKown)

2012

Remains (site-specific at Red Fork; with Erin Turner)

Fences (with Rachel Bruce Johnson)

Water Ballet (with Erin Turner)

2013

Upon First Entering (site-specific at Crystal Bridges)

Rag the Bone