Present Text

Present Text is my approach to classical and public-domain text.

Text is an invitation. Rather than searching for a fixed meaning or attempting to recover an author's original intention, I am interested in what happens when these people encounter this text, in this room, at this moment in time.

I approach classical texts as work that can continue to reveal something about our humanity precisely because it can withstand being questioned, cut, embodied, and made present again.

Current Explorations

Dream Devised an ensemble-led approach to adapting Shakespeare through text, movement, and collective authorship.

Nothing Good Gets Away a movement-based response to John Steinbeck's letter to his son Thom.

Holding Pattern an ongoing investigation into text, movement, authorship, and non-linear meaning-making.

Choreographing Connection
Dream Devised
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Dream Devised
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Dream Devised is a movement-based, ensemble-driven adaptation of A Midsummer Night’s Dream that explores how devising can open Shakespeare’s text to new creative possibilities.

At the root of the project were two connected questions:

  • How can we challenge some of the traditional hierarchies of the rehearsal room?

  • And, how can we invite more people into the work?

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Nothing Good Gets Away: A Reflection on Practice
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Nothing Good Gets Away: A Reflection on Practice
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Because I’ve been working with these performers for years there is a shorthand between us. The piece came together in two and a half hours.

What I’m recognizing now is that is because of practice.

Trusting that the work you’ve done doesn’t disappear. It accumulates and sharpens. It reveals itself when you need it.

Nothing good gets away.

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