

AWARDS
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Film "Red" 2024 awards:
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New York Istanbul Short Film Festival
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Dance Camera Istabul
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Iconic Image Film Festival
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Subcircle Residency 2021
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JChen Project Semi-Finalist 2020
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Film: "Yellow" accepted at Golden West Art Gallery: FEMELLA Winter Exhibit 2019
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Film: "Blue" won Italian Absurd Film Festival 2021
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Film: "To Stir" BareDanceCompany 48 hr Choreographic Challenge: 1st Runner Up 2020
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Film "Redressing" Home Dare2 Dance in Public Film Scholarship 2020
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Film "Sea Change" Mobile Dance Film Festival: Mobi Mini Fest Winner 2019
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NYC XYZ Dance Series Champion Tank Theater NYC 2013 - winning opportunity to create an evening length work at the Off-Broadway-Non profit The Tank Theater which enabled me to create Distractions as live performance with dance film within.
DEGREE
B.A. in Dance/Dance Science
at Loyola Marymount University
EDUCATION
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Bearnstow Dance Workshop Bebe Miller and Angie Hauser, Mt Vernon, ME, July 2018
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Anabella Lenzu 3 Certifications: Dance for the Camera/ Dance Composition/ Dance and Musicality 2021
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Jacob Jonas Digital Portfolio Workshop, Online, May 2020
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Lion's Jaw Dance Festival Intensive: Volunteer and Participant 2017, 2018, and Teacher 2019
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Annenberg Space for Dance: Alexx Shilling Improv Processes and Scores, June 2019
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Rosanna Gamson World Wide: Go Los Angeles Workshop in Improv for Choreography 2019
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Bearnstow Dance Workshops: Sarah Pearson and Claire Porter, Mt Vernon, ME, July 2018
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Deborah Black’s Workshop: Mary Overlie’s 6 Viewpoints, NYC, Feb 24 & 25, 2018
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Bates International Dance Festival: Teacher Training Program, Lewiston, ME, July 2017
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Doug Varone: Choreography Intensive at Hunter College, NYC Jan 2017
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Jeanine During: Non Stop Doing Workshop, Meg Wolfe Space, CA, Spring 2016
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Your Neighborhood Studio Contemporary: Sarah VonGillern, Spring and Fall 2016, 2015
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Your Neighborhood Studio Contemporary: Seda Aybay, Spring 2016, 2015, 2012
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West African with Ron Brown at SMC, CA, 2007
DANCE INFLUENCE
Influenced by Contemporary, Gaga, Hip Hop, West African, and multiple somatic and Improv forms from teachers like: Bebe Miller, Doug Varone, Mary Overlie, Deborah Black, Miguel Gutierez, and Anabella Lenzu