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I am a seasoned artist and arts educator, with a 25-year history as a performer, choreographer, teacher, and collaborator. Since founding my company, Epiphany Productions in 1996, I have choreographed, directed, and created music for 16 evening length works of "sonic dance theater." I received my MFA in Choreography from UC Davis in June 2006, and have more than 10 years of experience in teaching dance at the collegiate level. I am strongly committed to collaboration and community, to the highest artistic standards in choreography, performance, and teaching, and to providing dancers and students with a safe and challenging environment for creativity and movement.
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| 2007 |
SAN
FRANCISCO TROLLEY DANCES
Produced Festival and created Site Specific work Labyrinth, sans souci |
| 2007 |
FEARS OF YOUR LIFE
with AXIS Dance Company, and Creativity Explored at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts |
| 2006 |
SAN
FRANCISCO TROLLEY DANCES
Produced Festival and created site-specific work LOVE AND TRANSFER |
| 2006 |
LOTTA'S OPERA
Free Site-Specific Community Show funded by SFAC Art on Market for San Francisco Rising |
| 2006 |
FEARS OF YOUR LIFE: STUDY 1
Mondavi Studio Theater, Davis |
| 2005 |
SAN
FRANCISCO TROLLEY DANCES
Produced Festival and created site-specific work 798: WE
ARE THIS TROLLEY |
| 2004 |
SAN
FRANCISCO TROLLEY DANCES
Produced Festival and created site-specific work IN ALL WE
DANCE |
| 2004 |
CAWVILLE
Emerson Performance Center, St. Louis, Missouri |
| 2004 |
SONGS
FOR MILEVA, NONNINONNO, & SPEAK THE LANGUAGE
Scooba Residency, Velocity Dance Center, Seattle, WA and UC
Santa Barbara |
| 2003 |
SONGS FOR MILEVA and KILLED IN THE WILD
DivaFest, Exit Theater, San Francisco |
| 2003 |
EINSTEIN'S DAUGHTERS
Cowell Theater, San Francisco; Sushi Performance Space and Gallery,
San Diego |
| 2002 |
E MOTION OF ATOMS
Dance Mission Theater, San Francisco, CA |
| 2001 |
MATHEMATICS OF THE HEART
Dancers' Group Summer Intensives Festival performance, The Marsh,
San Francisco; S.F. Street Theater Festival |
| 2001 |
BELOW ZERO
Theater Artaud, San Francisco
Received 2002 Bay Area Isadora Duncan award for set design,
nominated for sound score |
| 2000 |
LONELY COWBOYS
Commissioned for Resistdance, Koln, Germany and toured throughout
Germany |
| 2000 |
DESEOS DESNUDOS
Commissioned by the Universidad de Baja California for Parallelos
32 Company. Presented in the Bi-National Competition, Mexico
City, Mexicali and Hermosillo, Mexico; San Francisco and Carmel,
California. Nominated for a 2002 Bay Area Isadora Duncan Award
for Choreography |
| 1998-99 |
THE GREAT DIVIDE
848 Community Space, San Francisco; Pat Rincon Dance Company,
San Diego; Commissioned for the Edge Festival 1999, Dancers'
Group Studio Theater, San Francisco |
| 1997-99 |
SONIC LUMINESCENCE
Dancers' Group Studio Theater, San Francisco; Sushi Performance
and Visual Art Gallery, San Diego;
Received SF Weekly Black Box Award for Ensemble Performance
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| 1996 |
BALLET OF THE BANSHEES
Choreographer for The Dance Brigade, toured in the United States,
Japan, and Canada.
Nominated for 1995-96 Bay Area Isadora Duncan Choreography Award
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| 2008 |
LABYRINTH
Commissioned to perform and set Site Specific work at Los Angeles Improv Dance Festival |
| 2007 |
MELT
Commissioned for students of University of San Francisco and UC San Diego |
| 2005 |
IN
THE SHADOW OF THE RED BRICK
Commissioned work, Center Stage Theater, Santa Barbara; tour
in Italy |
| 2005 |
NOW
WHAT AM I GOING TO DO WITH YOU
San Francisco International Arts Festival, Theater Artaud; Aerial
Dance Festival, The Dairy, Boulder, CO |
| 2005 |
FEARS
ARE LIKE THIS, ATTEMPT #1
UC Davis Main Theatre, Davis, CA |
| 2004 |
NONNINONNO
Sushi Performance Space, San Diego; Dance Mission Theatre, San
Francisco; Velocity, Seattle |
| 2004 |
OURS
NOT OURS
Lower Left, Sushi Performance Space, San Diego; also toured
throughout the U.S. |
| 2003 |
THE
RIVERS SITE
Trolley Dances, San Diego |
| 2002-03 |
WHOA BACK
Commissioned by Mills College, Oakland, CA and Goucher College,
Towson, MD |
| 2002 |
WEASEL B
Commissioned by Anne Bluethenthal for solo in show at Dance
Mission, San Francisco. |
| 2001-02 |
I DON'T KNOW HOW TO KISS YOU
San Francisco Lesbian and Gay Dance Festival, Dance Mission
Theater, San Francisco; Aerial Dance Festival, Boulder, CO |
| 2001 |
SOUND
IN MOTION
Movement Research, 11th Annual Improvisation Festival, New York,
NY |
| 2001 |
UNDER THE TONGUE (section: BY THE THROAT)
Commissioned for Terri Shipman, Debi Toth, Tonnie Sammartano,
Leah Cox. Presented at SUSHI, San Diego |
| 2001 |
WAITING FOR ME
San Diego State University, City College of San Diego, UCSD
Performance Series |
| 2000-01 |
A DAY
Performed in Richard Move's "Martha" Colorado Dance Festival
(July 2001)
Performed in a hotel room, San Diego Trolley Dance Festival,
CA (2000) |
| 1998-99 |
IN THE MIDDLE OF THE EYE: THE THIRD STORM
Commissioned, Pat Rincon Dance Company, UCSD, San Diego; TanzOlten
Festival, Olten, Switzerland Commissioned for the Margaret Wingrove
Dance Company, San Jose. Set on UCSD students (1999) |
| 1998-99 |
POLAR SHIFT
Glenwood Springs Dance Festival, CO; Colorado Dance Festival,
CO; Michigan Womyn's Music Festival, MI; Gay and Lesbian Dance
Festival, Dance Mission, San Francisco; TanzOlten Festival,
Olten, Switzerland; Co-created with Kathleen Hermesdorf |
| 1998 |
SHRINKING VIOLET
Commissioned for the Edge Festival 1998, Theater Artaud, San
Francisco |
| 1997-99 |
CALIDA FORNAX
Commissioned by the US/Mexico Fund for Culture, Universidad
de Baja California, Mexicali, Mexico, KulturMix Festival, San
Diego, CA, and the Edge Festival 1998, San Francisco. Awarded
1997-98 Bay Area Isadora Duncan Award for text and sound score.
Awarded in National Competition, Mexico City |
| 1997 |
NOT WITH WINGS
Brady Street Dance Festival, San Francisco; Glenwood Springs
Dance Festival, CO |
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| 1998 |
TRYPTECH
Performer in improvisational collaboration of live dance and
video, Telluride, CO |
| 1997-98
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TOMORROW'S A NICE DAY
Directed and edited, a day in the life of developmentally disabled
people |
| 1995 |
BALL AND CHAIN
Produced, directed and performed |
| 1995 |
TOMBOY BRIDE
Co-directed and wrote award-winning children's video |
| 1995 |
LIFE OF JANIS JOPLIN
Performed lead role, Masara Productions |
| 1989 |
LIKE THE WIND IN MIRA'S HAIR
Principal dancer in award-winning video |
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Performance,
Choreography, Music, Theatre, Set Design, Teaching
Daryl Henline, composer, opera singer, and actor; AXIS Dance Company; Michael Bernard Loggins, writer/cartoonist, Creativity Explored; Todd Herman, animator; C. Derrick Jones, actor/dancer; Mike Stasiuk, propmaster and sculptor; Richard Kittle, aerial design artist; Nancy Stark Smith, performer and master teacher in contact improvisation; Joan Jeanrenaud, cellist and and composer; Stephanie Nugent, choreographer and dancer, Lower Left Dance Company; Jeff Morrison, actor, singer, and dancer; Bob Een, musician and composer; Jules Beckman, dancer and musician; Jim Cave, director and actor; Lauren Elder, set designer; Bob Ernst, actor; AndrŽ Gregory, director, actor, and writer; Kathleen Hermesdorf, dancer and choreographer; Julie Kane, dancer, choreographer; Norman Rutherford, musical director, musician, performer; Elaine Buckholtz, lighting designer, musician; Peter Overton, dancer, musician, and video editor; Shakiri, dancer; Jon Weaver, choreographer; Sally Davis, director, musician; John Fago, photographer, writer; Tere OŐConnor, choreographer, dancer; Chris Aiken, contact improvisation and improvisor; Dan Chumley, director; Joanna Haigood, choreographer; Jean Isaacs, choreographer, San Diego Dance Theatre; Jessilito Bie, choreographer; Project Bandaloop, Robert Moses Kin, The Dance Brigade; KUNST-STOFF; Facing East Dance and Music; Janice Garrett and Charles Moulton; Keith Hennessey, performance artist; George Brooks, musician; Rinde Eckert, composer, performer, playwright; Stephen Kint, composer, didjeridu player; Robert Henry Johnson, performer, choreographer. |
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| 1997-present |
EPIPHANY
PRODUCTIONS, San Francisco, CA
Artistic Director, choreographer, performer, vocalist, educator |
| 1997-98 |
LAUREN
ELDER, Oakland, CA
Principal dancer, performer and vocalist in "The Handless
Maiden." |
| 1988-97 |
CONTRABAND,
San Francisco, CA
Principal dancer, singer, costume designer, and contributing
choreographer for Oracle, Religare, Mira I, Mira II, and Mira
III with award winning Bay Area dance company. Toured the United
States, Mexico, Russia, and Europe. Received the 1991 and 1993
Isadora Duncan Award for Best Performance by a Company. Also
performed at Jacob's Pillow, Colorado Dance Festival, and Bates
Dance Festival |
| 1984-97 |
THE DANCE BRIGADE, Oakland, CA
Principal dancer, costume designer, and choreographer for The
Dance Brigade, touring the United States, Japan, and Canada.
Co-directed most recent production of The Ballet of the Banshees,
Resurrection, (1995-'96 nomination for the Bay Area's
Isadora Duncan Awards for Choreography). Also performed at the
Michigan Womyn's Music Festival |
| 1983-90 |
CORPO SANTOS, Oakland, CA UNITED STATES CAPOEIRA TEAM
Martial Artist/Dancer, Brazilian performance group with emphasis
in Capoeira and Samba. Placed first in the 1983 Women's International
Competition. Performed in Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo, and Bahia,
Brazil |
| 1979-80 |
UNITED STATES PEACE CORPS
Teacher/performer, Guatemala City, Guatemala for National Year
of the Child.
Toured Guatemala, taught health education through dance and
theater workshops in rural communities |
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| 2008 |
PHYLLIS C. WATTIS FOUNDATION for SPEAKING CHINESE |
| 2007 |
LEF FOUNDATION for FEARS OF YOUR LIFE |
| 2007 |
WALTER AND ELISE HAAS FUND for FEARS OF YOUR LIFE |
| 2006 |
DANCE: CREATION TO PERFORMANCE OF THE JAMES IRVINE FOUNDATION AND DANCE/USA for FEARS OF YOUR LIFE |
| 2006-2007 |
OSHER FOUNDATION for FEARS OF YOUR LIFE with Creativity Explored and AXIS Dance and SF TROLLEY DANCES |
| 2005 |
CREATIVE
WORK FUND for FEARS OF YOUR LIFE with Creativity
Explored |
| 2005-2006 |
NATIONAL
ENDOWMENT FOR THE ARTS for SF TROLLEY DANCES |
| 2004-2006 |
FLEISHACKER
FOUNDATION for SF TROLLEY DANCES |
| 2004-2006 |
WALTER
AND ELISE HAAS FUND for TROLLEY DANCES |
| 2000,
2004 |
CA$H FUND for BELOW ZERO and SF TROLLEY DANCES
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| 2002 |
DJERASSI FOUNDATION Artist residency program, awarded
William and Flora Hewlett Foundation Honorary Fellowship
in recognition for work in residency |
| 2002,
2004 |
NATIONAL COLLEGE CHOREOGRAPHER'S INITIATIVE (DanceUSA)
U of North Dakota, UCSB (2004) |
| 2000-2007 |
GRANTS FOR THE ARTS- HOTEL TAX FUND Organizational Support
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| 2001 |
THEATER ARTAUD ADVANCEMENT INITIATIVE Presentation of
BELOW ZERO |
| 2001-07 |
MEET THE COMPOSER Support funds for composers of BELOW
ZERO, EINSTEIN'S DAUGHTERS and SF TROLLEY DANCES |
| 2001 |
WESTAF Touring and Presenting Program; Presentation of
DESEOS DESNUDO |
| 1999-00 |
SHERIDAN ARTS FOUNDATION Choreography and performance
of IN THE MIDDLE OF THE EYE: THE THIRD STORM and BELOW
ZERO and SF TROLLEY DANCES |
| 1997-2008 |
SAN FRANCISCO ARTS COMMISSION Choreography and performance
of BELOW ZERO, SONIC LUMINESCENCE, EINSTEIN'S DAUGHTERS,
SF TROLLEY DANCES, LOTTA'S OPERA, FEARS OF YOUR LIFE and SPEAKING CHINESE |
| 1997,
2000 |
US/MEXICO FUND FOR CULTURE Presentation of DESEOS
DESNUDOS and workshops and choreography, Mexico and the
US |
1997,1999-2004,
2006, 2007 |
ZELLERBACH FAMILY FUND for
TROLLEY DANCES, THE GREAT DIVIDE, SONIC LUMINESCENCE, DESEOS
DESNUDOS, BELOW ZERO, MATHEMATICS OF THE HEART and EINSTEIN'S
DAUGHTERS
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| 1994-2002 |
CALIFORNIA ARTS COUNCIL Operating Support (1999-2003),
Rural and Inner City Presenting Pilot Program (2000)
Presentation of DESEOS DESNUDOS, Artist Presenting
Program (1999) Choreography and performance of THE GREAT
DIVIDE, Artist in Residence (1994-2000) working with
developmentally disabled adults- Potrero Neighborhood Center
Public School System, Hunters Point |
1996-2005,
2007, 2008 |
LUCKY STAR FOUNDATION New York City, NY Cross-cultural
exchange - Storefront School, Harlem and Dobbs Ferry Primary
School, TROLLEY DANCES |
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| 2007-2008 |
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY Adjunct Professor and guest choreographer for their student company, Bay Area Repertory Dance Ensemble
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| 2007 |
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO Guest Choreographer, taught master classes
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| 2006 |
UNIVERSITY OF SAN FRANCISCO Adjunct Professor School of Music and Dance |
| 2006 |
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, DAVIS Adjunct Professor Department of Theatre and Dance |
| 1995-Present |
ODC SCHOOL Ongoing master classes in Intermediate/Advanced
Technique and Contact Improvisation |
| 2004-05 |
UC
SANTA BARBARA Master Classes in Choreography, Improvisation,
Contact Improvisation, and Beginning to Advanced Modern Dance
Technique |
| 2003-04 |
SAN DIEGO
STATE UNIVERSITY One-Year Dance Theater Professorship
Intermediate and advanced post-modern dance technique, improvisation,
choreography (Body Modalities, Afro-Brazilian Dance/Song/Capoeira)
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| 2003 |
UNIVERSITY
OF MONTANA Commissioned to set work on student dance company;
artist in residence to teach master classes |
| 2003 |
GOUCHER
COLLEGE Guest Professor, Dance Department
Taught master classes and set work on students |
| 2002 |
MILLS
COLLEGE Guest Professor, Dance Department
Taught master classes and set work on students |
| 2002 |
ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY Adjudicator, National College
Dance Competition
Taught master classes |
| 2002 |
UNIVERSITY OF NORTH DAKOTA Guest Professor, Theater Department
Commissioned to direct the chorus in a live production of "The
Crucible" with a grant from the National College Choreographers
Initiative |
| 2001 |
TANZINITIATIVE
Workshop and performance, Hamburg, Germany |
| 2001 |
DOCK 11
Post-modern dance classes, Berlin, Germany |
| 2001 |
K77
Contact workshop, Berlin, Germany |
| 1998-9/
2001 |
COLORADO DANCE FESTIVAL
Dance, voice, movement and contact improvisation workshop |
| 2001 |
SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY
Choreographed and set work on students, taught master classes
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| 2001 |
CITY COLLEGE OF SAN DIEGO
Choreographed and set work on students, taught master classes
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| 1999-2000 |
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT LOS ANGELES
Guest Professor, Department of World Arts and Cultures
Teaching intermediate and advanced post-modern dance technique
and choreography |
| 1998-01 |
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT SAN DIEGO Choreographer,
Dance Department
Set original dance piece on students for spring concert; taught
master classes |
| 1997-99,
2002-03 |
SONOMA STATE UNIVERSITY Faculty, Department of Theater
Arts
Taught contact improvisation and technique for two semesters
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| 1988-97 |
CONTRABAND SUMMER WORKSHOPS
Instructor, San Francisco, California
Principal teacher of voice, movement integration, improvisation,
dance technique, contact
Co-taught and performed with Sara Shelton Mann in Köln,
Germany |
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KIDS ON TRACK Site specific workshops for students from grade school to college |
| 1996-present |
CHILDREN'S
STOREFRONT SCHOOL Artist-in-Residence, Harlem, New York
Dance, theater and music program and performance for children
in elementary and middle school grades |
| 1986-present |
TELLURIDE ACADEMY Artistic
Co-Director, Telluride, CO
Co-director with Sally Davis of The Mudd Butt Mystery Theater
Troupe. Dance, acting, and music intensive for children
culminating in evening-length original performance. Mudd
Butt International, a cross-cultural theater exchange
and performance with students from the U.S. and other countries.
Indonesia, Slovakia, Costa Rica, New Zealand, the Bahamas,
Mexico, Guatemala, Nicaragua and India. Worked with André Gregory in Listowel,
Ireland
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| 2002-2005 |
MARSH YOUTH THEATER
Collaborator, The Marsh, San
Francisco
Dance, theater and music program for inner-city youth
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| 1985-87 |
INTERLOCKEN INTERNATIONAL SUMMER CAMP, Instructor, Hillsborough,
New Hampshire
Teacher of dance, music, and theater. Toured "Who Rains" throughout
New England |
| 1984-95 |
HAVARAH YOUTH CENTER
Performance Arts Coordinator, San Francisco
Movement Specialist and Performance Arts Coordinator for Fine
Arts Program |
| 1979 |
PEACE CORPS Danced and performed throughout Guatemala
for The Year of the Child |
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Dance Space, New York, NY; Movement
Research Improvisation Festival, New York, NY; Boulder Aerial
Festival, Boulder, CO; Telluride Film Festival, Telluride, CO;
Seattle Festival of Alternative Dance, WA; Boston, MA; Brattleboro,
VT; Salt Lake City, UT; San Francisco, CA; New York, NY; Bermuda;
Havana, Cuba; Slovakia; Queenstown, New Zealand; Listowel, Ireland;
Kšln, Germany; Tanzolten Festival, Olten, Switzerland; San Diego
Dance Theater Festival, Fresno Dance Festival, Glenwood Springs
Dance Festival, Telluride Theater Festival, Michigan Womyn's
Music Festival, Kultur Mix II Festival of International Dance,
San Diego; Santa Fe Center for Contemporary Arts, Bates Dance
Festival, Jacobs Pillow |
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Stanford University, Lower Left Dance Company, University of
Arizona, School of Performing Arts and Cultural Education (Ukiah,
CA), Moving On Center School for Participatory Arts and Research
(Oakland, CA), Sushi Performance and Visual Art Gallery (San
Diego), Movement Research (NY), SUNY Purchase (NY), Masters
School (NY), San Francisco: Dancers' Group, ODC Performance
Gallery, SF Dance Center |
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| 2006 |
FROM THE CAMPUS TO THE REAL WORLD (AND BACK AGAIN): A PANEL AND WORKSHOP
FOR ARTISTS Dance/USA invited Panelist and Speaker as Artistic Director of Epiphany Productions |
| 2005 |
DANCE MAGAZINE College Guide 2005-2006 "Feathering the
Basket" |
| 1998 |
CONTACT
QUARTERLY "Contacting the Border" |
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UNIVERSITY
OF CALIFORNIA, DAVIS MFA in Choreography |
| 1984 |
NEW
COLLEGE OF CALIFORNIA Bachelor of Arts and Humanities (Dance
Emphasis) |
| 1977-79 |
UNIVERSITY OF UTAH Modern Dance Major |
| 1985-current |
ADDITIONAL STUDIES
Ballet, Modern, Contact Improvisation, Theatre, Voice, Alexander
Technique, Aerial Work, Kinetic Awareness : Remy Charlip,
Lucas Hoving, Joe Goode, Sara Shelton Mann, Sally Street, Terry
Sendgraff, Rhiannon, Roy Hart, Hellen Stolfuz, Mary Forcade,
Elaine Summers, Nancy Stark Smith, Ruth Zaporah, Wally Cordova,
Carol Swann, David Dorfman, DV8 Physical Theater, and John O'Keefe
Ethnic Dance and Music Studies:
Chi-Gung, Fitzmaurice Voicework, Traditional Irish Dance with Jimmy Hicky, Listowel, Ireland;
Afro-Haitian with Blanche Brown, San Francisco, CA; Afro-Brazilian,
Samba, Maculélé, Capoeira, Drumming, Birambau with
Bira Almeida, San Francisco; additional studies in Rio de Janeiro,
Sao Paulo, Bahia, Brazil; Afro-Cuban, Rhumba, Salsa, Drumming,
Voice with Caribbean Music and Dance, Matanzas, Cuba |
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