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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


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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


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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

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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.


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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”.


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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".