Remember Machine


  “So many influences, so little time.” —Melinda Buckwalter This is a series of dances with Hazel Bee Humphrey and me. Emergent and evolving, techniques seem to include the kinds of timing, touch, and togetherness we’ve learned from LIVE practice, contact improvisation, and dramas, both everyday ones and those that drive the epic performances of our

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Feeling


Directed and performed by Jess Humphrey and Eric Geiger with Chloë Freeman, Zack King, Nhu Nguyen, and Dimitrius Paganos Koukakis. Feeling was born of research on the embodied nature of emotions and now feeds on music and dramas, both durational and enduring. Concept and contributions by Toni James. Click here for Feeling sources which include drama, divas, affective neuroscience, camp, soul,

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The Birth of Hazel Bee


August 5th, 2011 I get a call that my mentor, Susan McLain, has died. I get off the phone and cry so hard that I start my period a week early. Natural family planning screwed up. August 20th, 2011 I go to Susan’s memorial at Cal State Long Beach. I am pregnant but do not

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