When I started “Moving Still(s)” one year ago at the Djerassi Resident Artist Program, I was very resistant to the idea of producing a concert or even creating a piece from the experience. I worked intentionally to derail my choreographic process in order to arrive at deeper states of being and latent approaches to moving. […]
I just returned to the Bay Area from packed and generously-attentive houses in Portland. Thanks to Martha Ullman West for her coverage in Oregon’s Arts Watch: Dancing to the how and why of ‘It’ And thanks of course to my dear friend and colleague Katherine Longstreth. We met in graduate school some 20 years ago […]
As soon as I started scripting material for State, I shifted its context by taking it outside. The Djerassi Ranch in Woodside (where I was in residency last May) invites that kind of play, of course, and offers innumerable sites to take advantage of. Here is a short blip from one such adventure: Funsch launch […]