writer, choreographer, dancer
PROJECTS
RINSE CYCLE
Director's Choice Showcase
Spoke the Hub, Brooklyn, NY
September 2024
Writer, Director, Choreographer, Curator
RINSE CYCLE was an evening length performance imagining a collection of poems come to life via music, dance, and spoken word. Each scene took the audience into the world of a specific poem; some were set to original music behind a recorded voice track of the poem, others were spoken live, and the words, music, and dance were all in conversation with one another. The themes of the poems spanned a wide range - scenes from a life in ballet, the soft notes of a sapphic love poem, a prayer to the ocean, and throughout a speaker that is trying her best to figure out how to live through the ups and downs of being a person and being an artist.
SUNDAY
Emerging Artist Theater's New Works Series
TADA Theater, New York, NY
September 2022
Writer, Director, Choreographer
Starting in a moment of chaotic resignation, a young artist processes loss, working through memories of a terminally ill older brother, a fickle love of classical ballet, and the hope that both her mind, and her community of movers, will find peace together. SUNDAY intertwines verse and movement to investigate questions of embodied trauma and healing. It aims to recognize the pain of confronting the body’s limits in illness, injury, and grief, while celebrating how the body can love, groove, and move forward.
THE BODY AS A LASTING THING
Leverett Library Theatre February 2019
Director, Choreographer
A dance performance inspired by Anna Antongiorgi's English creative thesis in poetry, a collection of short poems on the themes of physicality, anatomy, and dance. In this performance, the poetry and choreography were meant to complement each other as the evening worked its way through the issue of living, leaving, feeling and moving in a human body, and all the highs and lows that accompany seeing the world through this lens.
ON QUARTER
The Loeb Mainstage November 2018
Director
The Harvard Ballet Company celebrated its 25th anniversary season with on quarter, an original work that tackled the experience of performers on Harvard’s campus, finding a place to call home in an unfamiliar environment, and the community that artistic creation provides for so many. Presenting pieces inspired by HBC’s traditions and elements often hidden by backstage, on quarter questioned who and where performance can occur. Student and alumni choreographers created an immersive theatre work alongside a live concert of Gershwin piano that celebrated the home HBC has been for the past 25 years, while also investigating both our and the audience’s identity as dancers, students, friends, and artists.
OUT OF ORBIT
The Harvard Ballet Company on the Loeb Mainstage Fall 2018
Director, Choreographer
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away... the Pops Orchestra and Ballet Company combined forces to produce a collaboration of astronomical proportions. The production explores our fascination with outer space, and the conflicting feelings of paralysis and excitement that come with it. Featuring iconic space-inspired music spanning the classical, film, and popular musical canons, and starring some of this campus' most talented dancers, we have created a multi-media performance that will blow you out of this world.
