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Live Performance as Choreographer

• Spring Show for PATHS (Portland Arts & Technology High School), Maine 2024

• Winter Show for Thorton Academy though Collective Motion, Maine 20223

• Reframe, Stockstill Gallery Space, Los Angeles, CA, July 2019 

• Strained, Mar Vista Art Walk, Los Angeles, CA, June 2017 

• Distractions, Tank Theater, New York, NY, May 2014 

• Boardwalk, Tank Theater, New York, NY, June 2013 

• Unplugged, Electric Lodge, Venice, CA, Nov 2011 

• Trains, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, CA, 2006 

 

Live performance Choreographer & Dancer 

• Into the Wind-   poet-librettist Arisa White  and choreographer Laurel Jenkins invited  Katherine Ferrier, Annie Kloppenberg, and Liz Mulkey to create “wind scores” in response to the exhibition Into the Wind: American Weathervanes at the Colby College Museum of Art. Accompanied by Cellist Robin Lane  , Maine Aug, 2024

• Drip in Gold at Broadturn Flower Farm presented By Space Gallery Portland Maine, summer 2024

• Vesper, Creative Direction: Subcircle, Ocean Park Temple, Maine, Summer, 2022

• Habitat, Collaboration with Heather Lyons & JoAnna Medhel Shaw at Engine Arts Biddeford, Maine, 2022,

• What Haunts, Collaboration w/ Ellen Gorman at Beverly House, CA, Feb 2020

• We Are Here, Strub Theater Cancer Benefit, Los Angeles, CA 2019 

• Conversations 2, Electric Lodge, May 2019 

• Haptics, The Living Room, Portland, ME, Dec 15th 2018

• You hug me you hug me you, Bearnstow Presents, Maine, 2018 

• Conversations 1, Movement Research Dec 4th 2018 

• Break Glass a Site Specific, Culver City, CA, June 2018 

• Light Plays on Light at Max 10, Electric Lodge, Venice Beach, CA June 2018 

• How I Wanted It To Go, The Thing at Green Street Studios, Boston, MA, January & April 2018 

• 3 States, Fresh Fridays at Green Street, Boston, Feb 2018 

• Undoing Improv, Lion’s Jaw Festival The Thing, Boston, MA, Oct 2017 

• Pop-up Show with musician Jess Lamb, Venice Beach, CA, Dec 2016 

• Sense and Nonsense, Tank Theater, New York, NY, May 2013

 

Live Performance as a Dancer 

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• Subcircle Artist Residency Fundraiser - site specific and improv base, by Subcircle, Maine Aug, 2024

• Convent (Official Title Forthcoming), Creative Direction by SubCircle, site specific and improv base, October 2023, Biddeford Pool Convent, Maine

• Til The Tide, Creative Direction by SubCircle, site specific and improv base, July 23rd, at Ogunquit Museum of American Art, 2023

• Rosewater Sundaze, Creative Director: Jhia Jackson, Joe Goode Performance Space, San Francisco, CA, June 2023, 

• Subcircle Artist Residency Fundraiser - site specific and improv base, by Subcircle, Maine Aug, 2021 

• Subcircle Artist Residency Fundraiser - site specific and improv base, by Subcircle Maine Aug, 2022 

• Potato Piece, by Molly Hess of 3 Spice, Green Street Studios, Boston, January 2018 

• Threshold,  by Alexandra Pirici for The High Line Art Performance Sept 2017       https://www.thehighline.org/art/projects/alexandrapirici/

• Sideways, by Kristelle Monterrosa, Ruskin Theater, Los Angeles, May 2012 

• Memories, by Danielle Beauchamp, Highways Performance Space 2010 

• Dance Camera West Park Performance, by Maia Calypso, Cheviot Hills, October 2009 

 

Film as Choreographer

• Red (one in a Primary color series),  Director: Amelia Anderson, Dancer: Jhia Jackson, 2021

*Winner of Best Ultra Short New York Istanbul Short Film Festival

*Winner of 3rd place in DANCE CAMERA ISTANBUL - Impro Dance Fest Edition

• To Stir, Director& Editor: myself, Dancer: Jacqui DeFranca, 2020

*Winner Runner-UP Bare Dance Company 48 hour Challenge 

• Blue (one in a Primary color series), with Amelia Mulkey, San Francisco, CA, June 2017 

*Winner of Runner up of Absurd of Film Festival Italy, 2021

 

Film as Choreographer & Dance​

• Blurt, ​Dancer: Jacqui Defranca & Myself, Videographer and Editor: Jorge Cousineau , 2023

• Nightlife, Musician: Scott Mackay, Maine, 2019

*Selected to be shown at En Route Curbside Series Film Festival Biddeford, Maine, 2022

• Sea Change, Musician: Scott Mackay, Maine, 2019, Choreographer & Dancer

*Winner of Semi-finalist in Mobile Dance Film Festival: Mobi Mini Fest 2019 

• Redressing Home, Site specific, Venice, CA, 2019 Choreographer & Dancer

*Winner Scholarship to Dare to Dance in Public

• Traverse, with Ellen Gorman and Paul Jacob, CA, 2019 Choreographer & Dancer

• Reframe Filmed, with Heather Cappiello Stockstill Gallery Space, July 2019 Choreographer

• Yellow (one in a Primary color series), with Amelia Anderson, Playa Vista, May 2019 

*Selected and shown in Golden West Art Gallery: FEMELLA Winter Exhibit 2019

• Break Glass Filmed, with Heather Capiello, CA, June 2018 Choreographer & Dancer

• 50/50, with Amelia Anderson, CA, May 2018 Choreographer & Dancer

• Love, Jess Lamb Music Video, Venice Beach, CA, Nov 2016 Choreographer & Dancer

 

Film as Dancer     

• Soul Forge, Director: Alison Chase, Rockland, Maine, March 2023

• Vesper, Directors: Niki Cousineau & Scott McPheeters, Biddeford, Maine, Aug 2022 

• Barnraiser at Magnus on the Water, Directors: Niki Cousineau & Scott McPheeters, Biddeford, Maine, Aug 2021 

• PETA Project, Downtown Los Angeles, CA, May 2021 

• XXX, KNTRLR Music Video, New York, NY, Jan 2015 

• I Can’t Swing Anymore, Musician: Aubrey Anderson, Director: Amelia Anderson, San Francisco, CA, July 2013 

 

AWARDS 

• Film Red won:

  • New York Istanbul Short Film Festival 23'

  • DANCE CAMERA ISTANBUL - Impro Dance Fest Edition 23'

  • Iconic Images Film Festival 23'

• Subcircle Residency 2021

• JChen Project Semi-Finalist 2020

• Film: Yellow  accepted at Golden West Art Gallery: FEMELLA Winter Exhibit 2019

• Film: Blue  won Italian Absurd Film Festival 2021

• Film: To Stir  BareDanceCompany  48 hr Choreographic Challenge: 1st Runner Up 2020

• Film Redressing Home  Dare2 Dance in Public Film Scholarship 2020

• Film Sea Change  Mobile Dance Film Festival: Mobi Mini Fest Winner 2019 

• 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.

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DEGREE 

• B.A. in Dance/Dance Science at Loyola Marymount University 2006

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EDUCATION

• Bearnstow Dance Workshop Bebe Miller and Angie Hauser, Mt Vernon, ME, July 2022

• Anabella Lenzu 3 Certifications: Dance for the Camera/ Dance Composition/ Dance and Musicality 2021

• Jacob Jonas Digital Portfolio Workshop, Online, May 2020

• Lion's Jaw Dance Festival Intensive: Volunteer & Participant 2017, 2018, Teacher 2019

• Annenberg Space for Dance: Alexx Shilling Improv Processes and Scores, June 2019

• Rosanna Gamson World Wide: Go Los Angeles Workshop Improv for Choreography 2019

• Bearnstow Dance Workshops: Sarah Pearson and Claire Porter, Mt Vernon, ME, July 2018

• Deborah Black’s Workshop: Mary Overlie’s 6 Viewpoints, NYC, Feb 24 & 25, 2018

• Bates International Dance Festival: Teacher Training Program, Lewiston, ME, July 2017

• Doug Varone: Choreography Intensive at Hunter College, NYC Jan 2017

• Jeanine During: Non Stop Doing Workshop, Meg Wolfe Space, CA, Spring 2016

•  West African with Ron Brown at SMC, CA, 2007

 

Certifications

• Yoga Tune Up ®  - Pasadena , CA 2016

• Yogaworks - 200 Hr Bridge Program - NYC 2015

• It’s Yoga - 200 Hr Teacher Training - Thailand 2012

• Long Beach Dance Conditioning - Pilates Advanced Teacher Training - Los Angeles, CA 2006

 

 

Dance Teaching Experience

 (16 yr  pilates/yoga/fitness resume available  upon request)

 

Casco Bay Movers 

September 2022 - Current, Portland ME 

Contemporary Choreography and Rigorous Improvisation Explorations

 

PATHS  (Portland Arts & Technology High School)​​

FEB - NOV 2024, Portland ME 

Sessions in: Contemporary Choreography and Embodied Anatomy, Pilates, Yoga, and Improvisation Explorations

MARCH/SEPT  2024, Portland ME 

​March/September 5 week Choreographic Collaboration with Alison Chase with PATHS dance student body

 

Loyola Marymount University 

August 2006-2012, 2015 - 2021, Los Angeles, CA

Lecture of  Intro to Choreography (courses for dancer majors and course for non-dance majors), Pilates, and Yoga. 2007 to 2012, Wellness Lab Coordinator in the Dance Department 

 

Metta Studios 

Fall and Winter  2019Biddeford, ME

Taught donation based DanceMe, : simple movement with high repetition to induce a flow state and creative augmentation 

 

Lion’s Jaw Festival

Oct, 2019 Boston,  MA

Taught DanceMe &  Shape Focused prompts  mixing dance and acting 

 

The Electric Lodge

Feb 2019-May 2019,  Venice,  CA

Taught DanceME

 

Green Street Studios

Feb 2018 -March 2018,  Boston,  MA

Improv scores based on teachings from Jenine During & Mary Overlie