2010-2019 overview:

My performance projects during this decade took place largely beyond the confines of proscenium performance venues, and featured several large-scale collaborative and interdisciplinary projects.  The one proscenium work from this decade, Out of Thin Air: Lightness, was inspired by the race to discover the Higgs boson, and it was thrilling to tap into that enormous excitement. Into the Wind, a site dance performance produced in Muskegon, Michigan, was a major cross-regional project. It was performed in a barren brownfield on the shores of Lake Michigan, formerly the site of the Continental Motors factory, and was created in collaboration with ecologists, biologists, a poet, visual artists, community activists, and composers.  Hath Purest wit:  Anagrams for Eight Dancers and Thirteen Letters,  drew upon the research of semiologist Marcel Danesi, and was premiered in the soaring lobby of the Duderstadt Center for a conference about the role of the arts within research universities. Corsets, Grains, & Greenways, to which I contributed the work Pratt Block Preludes,  took place along a four-block route in downtown Ann Arbor and was created in partnership with five community organizations and five choreographers.  Within/Beyond, a program of dances presented by Ann Arbor Dance Works, to which I contributed From Afar, took place in the beautiful beaux art lobby of the University of Michigan Museum of Natural History and featured collaborations with U-M scientists. Ann Arbor Dance Works celebrated its 30th anniversary in 2015 with a performance that took place in and around the University of Michigan Museum of Art in response to visual art.    Glancing Back/Dancing Forward was a photography and performance installation presented in the Power Center lobby as part of the university’s 2017 bicentennial celebrations. Belle Isle and Beyond, an eco-literacy performance and workshop project, was conducted at sites in and around the Belle Isle Nature Center in Detroit . 

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