Live Music and Dance with Douglas Dunn at NYU – Dec 2

I’m very excited to be performing a piece under the direction of Douglas Dunn on December 2nd at the Frederick Loewe Theater at NYU! There will be live music by Esther Lamneck and her students, and we will be dancing to their new music! I hope you can come experience this unique evening of work! This is a free event and you can find more information at the link below: http://events.nyu.edu/#event_id/14822/view/event

Mosaic Festival – December 1

I hope you’re able to make this wonderful intercultural dance festival! This is some of my favorite work and the evening promises to be a delight… The Mosaic Dance Festival is the creation of Kalamandir Dance Company, a Contemporary Indian Dance Ensemble dedicated to using the vocabulary of classical Indian dance in communication with global movement vernacular to realize their artistic vision. The company strives to enrich its classical foundations with other dance traditions. Drawing from Odissi, Kathak, Bharatanatyam, Capoeira, Flamenco, Middle Eastern, African, Modern and Ballet, the collective is driven by their passionate commitment to looking at what unifies…

University of Kansas Guest Artist Residency

I will be returning to the University of Kansas from January 26 – February 9 as the Spring 2013 Guest Artist.  I will be teaching Modern, Baroque and Composition classes while I’m there in addition to creating and setting a 10 minuet work on the university students.  It will be a modern piece to Haydn, Op. 74/3 in G minor, investigating the three dancing bodies of the Baroque period and the power of their connections in our communities.  I am thrilled to have Susan Rendall doing the costuming for the piece and it will be performed  at the Lawrence Arts…