Choreography & Curation
CURRENT AND RECENT PROJECTS
With Simone // with Transitive State, August 1, 2025 // Tulsa Artist Fellowship Flagship
/I/ Is For Arm // collaboration with paper sculptures by Steve Liggett and Pam Hodges; visual art by Zach Litwack, lettering by Teresa J. Wilber, lighting by Logan Sours, October 5, 2024 // Liggett Studio
CURATOR // SHE PERFORMS: Concurrent, March 26-27, 2021 // Liggett Studio + livestream
Since 2011 I have created or co-created more than two dozen works of dance. Often site-responsive, often using text and original music, often rooted in the earth of myth and place. 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
Rendezvous (dance for camera with Geoffrey Hicks)
Unbound
2014
Envelope (with text by Amy Page and music by Scott Bell)
The Red Haring (site-specific at Crystal Bridges; with Jessica Vokoun, Rachel Bruce Johnson, Ari Christopher)
2015
2.Steps.Forward (site-specific in Tulsa’s downtown tunnels; with Jessica Vokoun and Rachel Bruce Johnson)
Brief Kingdom (with text by Amy Page and music by Scott Bell)
Si Caelum (site-specific at Crystal Bridges; music by Scott Bell)
Field Study No. 82 (with Rachel Bruce Johnson)
2016
Liquid Geography (music by Scott Bell with Dylan Aycock, Jon Paul Pope, and Liz Coffman)
The Fourth Position (music by Scott Bell)
2017
Dance Parties for Beginners
2018
Strange Weather (site-specific at ahha Tulsa; with Erin Turner, Rachel Bruce Johnson, Aleks Weaver Kitchens)
How to Move the Truth #1 (with Angela Yetzke)
2019
Ninas de la Tierra (Heller Theater Company)
Wait
2020
Curator and co-director, EXCHANGE Choreography Festival (virtual edition)
Tulsa Danst Rosas
2021
Curator and choreographer, SHE PERFORMS: CONCURRENT
2022
Choreographer, “Religion” music video for The Makers Out
2023
Uncharted Country
2024
/I/ Is For Arm (with Steve Liggett at Liggett Studio)
2025
With Simone (for the exhibit Spatial Poems at the Tulsa Artist Fellowship Flagship)
