Set to music by Nina Simone, "I Would've Been a Killer" is—as Simone has described her infamous protest song "Mississippi Goddam"—a segment of a musical for which “the show hasn’t been written…yet.” A chorus of pregnant dancers, a cabaret singer, and a living room lamp assemble in a series of increasingly chaotic dances that literally attempt to bring down the house.
Food For Thought
Danspace Project
10th Street and Second Ave, NYC
December 19, 2008
8:30PM
Lives/Leaves
October 12, 2007
A section of the work in progress 'A Wagner Matinee' created in collaboration with Megan Nicely Running Time: 10 minutes 92nd St Y, Buttenwieser Hall
"...profound work...communicate[s] a world of information." --Catherine Tharin, Fridays At Noon Curator
Trying To Remain Upright
April 20-29, 2006
IRT Space (154 Christopher Street, NYC)
Running time: 29:34 minutes
Combining movement, critical theory, and popular music from the 1960s, Trying to Remain Upright emerged from a passage included in the program for Yvonne Rainer’s seminal Trio A.
I watched the coverage of the Vietnam War on television as a little girl and this is exactly what it felt like. Thank you. --Maryan Newbury, Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors
Silence, Corn and the Fading Memory of My Life as a Pianist
April 23, 2005
Contemporary Arts Center, North Adams, MA
Running Time: 45 Minute Performance Installation
Produced as part of the NEW.MASS.ART gallery show curated by Sandy Garcia, in the piece a woman performs a series of meditations in which she attempts to become Clara Wieck Schumann.
The Menstrual Show
December, 2001; March 2003; April 2005 (solo version)
Running time: 10 minutes
The Menstrual Show is a dance for seven women inspired by Iris Marion Young’s feminist essay “Throwing Like a Girl”.
Next to Fall
November, 2000
Running Time: 7 minutes
Arranged like snapshots from a family album, the dance offers a glimpse into the lives of five individuals at crutial points in their personal histories. Set to "Summer" from Vivaldi's "Four Seasons".
