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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CI36


This is me as “et al.”, dancing with Steve Homsher (Tumblebones contact improvisation collective).

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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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Entering Now


Entering Now (2007) was my thesis concert at the University of Utah. It was a shared evening with Shannon Mockli. A few ideas I was working with at the time: Scores and set material within the same work to learn more about how ways of being in performance changed as dancers shifted between the minds

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