2000-2009 overview:

All my creative projects in this decade were significant for me, from chamber works such as Where the Book Falls Open and Set of Eight: Routines and Reveries, to large-scale interdisciplinary and collaborative projects, such as Mapping the River and the three program-length site dances at the U-M Nichols Arboretum and Matthaei Botanical Gardens.  I conducted intensive research for each work, including those I created for student casts for our Department of Dance major annual productions at Power Center:  Brave Souls, We will Meet Again in Petersburg, Identified Flying Objects, and my retrospective work, In the House. For a sabbatical project in Kyoto, Japan I created a site performance at the Euin-In Temple in collaboration with Heidi Durning.  At the conclusion of the decade, I spearheaded perhaps the most complex and multi-stranded project of my career, Dancing at 100, celebrating 100 years of dance courses “on the books” at University of Michigan.  This project included a week of performances, lectures and master classes, an exhibit at the Bentley Historical Library, a written history of dance on campus, and a large scale multi-site dance performance featuring 30 alumni, faculty and students. 

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