PROJECTS, PERFORMANCE & CHOREOGRAPHY

Dark Oxygen

  • Carpetbag Brigade Physical Theater Residency, Sedona & Prescott, AZ, 2026

  • Wesleyan University Center for the Arts, Middletown, CT, 2026

  • Black Aesthetics Series, Judson Church, New York, NY, 2025

Whale Fall / Related Works

  • The Choreography of Whales: An Interspecies Love Story, Sobieszewo Beach / Baltic Sea, Gdańsk, Poland, 2024

  • Whale Fall: Abyss, Emerging Change Tanzfestival, Tanzfabrik, Berlin, Germany, 2024

  • Whale Fall: Abyss, Tall Ship Wavertree, South Street Seaport Museum, New York, NY, 2024

  • Whale Fall: Reckoning, LMCC Upper Gallery, Governors Island, New York, NY, 2024

  • Whale Fall: Lamentations, Dance Mission Theater, San Francisco, CA, 2024

  • Whale Fall: Residue, UNTITLED Art Fair, Miami Beach, FL, 2023

  • Wail. Fall. Whale. Fall, PSNY, New York, NY, 2023

Other Selected Works

  • Viewing Hours, Philly Death & Arts Festival, Laurel Hill Cemetery, Philadelphia, PA, 2025

  • Sensoria: An Opera Strange, Danspace Project, New York, NY, 2022

  • Letters to Marsha with Viewing Hours, JACK, Brooklyn, NY, 2020

  • Viewing Hours, 8th Floor Gallery, Rubin Foundation, New York, NY, 2020

  • Letters to Marsha with Viewing Hours, Mount Tremper Arts, Phoenicia, NY, 2019

  • Entropy's Garden & Viewing Hours, The Kitchen, New York, NY, 2019

  • Untitled, Judson Church, New York, NY, 2019

  • Letters to Marsha, Judson Church, New York, NY, 2018

  • IWB: Dancing in the Hold, Gibney, New York, NY, 2018

  • Improvising While Black (IWB): Glossolalia in the Flesh, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, 2016


COLLABORATIONS

  • Wayward, choreographed by Kim Brandt, Beach Sessions, Queens, NY, 2025

  • adaku, part 1: the road opens, directed by Okwui Okpokwasili, BAM,

  • Okwui Okpokwasili, MoMA Residency, New York, NY, 2022

  • On the way, undone, directed by Okwui Okpokwasili, The High Line, New York, NY, 2021

  • How to be Afraid?, with Mary Pearson, Liverpool, London & Zagreb, 2017–2021

  • Chameleon, with Jaamil Kosoko, New York & Johannesburg, 2018–2021

  • Reverend Billy and the Church of Stop Shopping Choir, New York & Athens, 2015–2018

  • Wall Ball, Flyaway Productions, directed by Jo Kreiter, San Francisco, CA, 2011

  • Singing Praises, Flyaway Productions, directed by Jo Kreiter, San Francisco, CA, 2010

  • The Ballad of Polly Ann, Flyaway Productions, directed by Jo Kreiter, San Francisco, CA, 2009 Ongoing / Recurring


film & video

  • Bad Water Place, cinematography by Suz Murray Sadler, New York, NY, 2022

  • Terima Kasih, cinematography by Suz Murray Sadler, New York, NY, 2022

  • Whale Fall Oracle Help Line, directed & edited by Suz Murray Sadler, 2021

  • Whale Fall, cinematography by Suz Murray Sadler, Abrons Arts Center, New York, NY, 2021

  • An Alchemy, Weidlinger House / Cape Cod Modern House Trust, Wellfleet, MA, 2020


TEACHING & PEDAGOGY

ONGOING / RECURRING

  • Dance & Process Facilitator, The Kitchen, New York, NY | 2024–Present

  • Faculty,Movement Research, New York, NY | 2018–Present

University Teaching

  • Wesleyan University, Dance Department, Middletown, CT | 2025

  • Trinity College, Dance Department, Hartford, CT | 2025

  • Oberlin College, Dance Department, Oberlin, OH | 2022, 2023, 2025

  • Sarah Lawrence College, Dance Department, Bronxville, NY | 2023, 2025

  • UCLA, World Arts & Cultures/Dance, Alma Hawkins Dance Chair / Visiting Professor, Los Angeles, CA | 2024

International / Festival Teaching

  • Ponderosa P.O.R.C.H., Stolzenhagen, Germany | 2024, 2025

  • Movement Research Global Practice Sharing, Croatia & Poland | 2018, 2024

  • KH Fresh Festival, San Francisco, CA | 2024

  • Emerging Change Tanzfestival, Berlin, Germany | 2024

  • Impulstanz, Vienna, Austria | 2023

  • Colorblock, Ponderosa, Stolzenhagen, Germany | 2023


EDUCATION

Northwestern University, Evanston, IL
MA, Performance Studies, 2016


University of California, Davis, Davis, CA
MFA, Dramatic Arts, 2014


University of California, Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA
Certificate, Ecological Horticulture, 2000


Trinity College, Hartford, CT
BA, English Literature, 1995


DANCE & PERFORMANCE TRAINING

  • School for New Dance Development (SNDO), Amsterdam, Netherlands | 1998

  • Moving On Center, School for Participatory Arts and Research, Oakland, CA | 1995–1997

  • Trinity La MaMa Program, New York, NY | 1992


HONORS, FELLOWSHIPS & AWARDS

  • Foundation for Contemporary Arts, Research & Development Award, 2026

  • Creative Time, Research & Development Fellow, 2025

  • Princeton University, Hodder Fellow, 2022–2023

  • Foundation for Contemporary Arts, Merce Cunningham Award in Dance, 2021

  • Bessie Award, Nomination for Whale Fall film, 2021

  • Northwestern University, Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship, 2016

  • UC Davis, Graduate Research Mentorship Fellowship, 2013–2014

  • UC Davis, Consortium for Women & Research Graduate Research Award, 2013–2014