Performance Archive
Moving Retrograde in Time
Photo by Moises Ramirez
(performance bio here)
Requiem for a Thousand Mothers
a film by Monica Rocha
August, 2023
Disappearing
an improvisation with Radiohead
July, 2023
Hand & Foot
in collaboration with Jed Wilson
One day a stranger posted a response to a question about Lacan on the Das Unbehaben listserv. I followed the link to his website and it showed he's a jazz pianist. I emailed him sharing that I too split my website and my life between Lacanian psychoanalysis and the performing arts. He suggested a collaboration, improvised something, and sent it to me. I improvised with it and made a video.
January, 2022
In Rehearsal
with Marija Krtolica for upcoming project. February, 2021
Windy Day on Rooftop, with social distance
May, 2020
Kepler-37 by l'Artiste ordinaire
performance for The Candidate Journal Issue Release Party at Taaffe Gallery
April, 2019
Improv
January 2019
Echo in the Body
The title derives from Lacan's Seminar XXIII: " ... the drives are the echo in the body of the fact of saying." Guitar by Jason Ciaccio. Part of Movement Research's Open Performance. Video by Chris Carlone.
May 2018
Exit
This is a movement "representation" of my first psychoanalysis. Created for The Candidate Journal's "Graph Your Analysis" contest. Music by Jarryd Lowder.
January 2018
The gravity of thought, or head down ass up, an improvisation
November 2017
It Can be Chaotic and Disturbing
A short film by Vanessa Sinclair using the contingencies of cut-up text and overlapping movement. Music by Witchbeam.
October 2017
Schreber LIVE!
A celebration of Daniel Paul Schreber's Memoirs of My Nervous Illness. Presented by Das Unbehagen, ISPS-US, and Hearing Voices Network NYC. Photos and video by Charles Mallison.
May 2017
Dancing in the dark
January 2017
Untitled improv
August 2016
Cacophony
A solo work in regress, or digress—discord in a body not having got it together, a fragmented figure, limbs akimbo, a body not in agreement with itself, parts breaking down, a clunky decay, like a Beckett character, seeking to stop by going on. Until the bell of silence. An improvisation for Movement Research Open Performance. Video documentation by Chris Carlone.
June 2016
Dancing in the studio
January 2016
Dream Navel
The title derives from the following passage in Freud's The Interpretation of Dreams:
"There is often a passage in even the the most thoroughly interpreted dream which has to be left obscure; this is because we become aware during the work of interpretation that at that point there is a tangle of dream-thoughts which cannot be unraveled and which moreover adds nothing to our knowledge of the content of the dream. This is the dream's navel, the spot where it reaches down into the unknown."
For Movement Research Open Performance. Music by Jarryd Lowder, and Beethoven played by Glenn Gould. Video by Chris Carlone. Performance contains partial nudity. Password: secretcode
December 2014
Photo by: Paul Ward
Cage on Vinyl on Marley
A 15 min. solo improvisation performed to the music of John Cage (selected in an aleatory manner, appropriately) as part of a durational dance event at the National Academy Museum in NYC. Find a more detailed description of this event created by Norte Maar here.
October 2012
Self Improvement
Created for Women in Motion, part of the Estrogenious Festival in NYC. Music and sound design by Jarryd Lowder. Performance contains partial nudity. Password: secretcode
November 2011
Dead Spot
Co-created with Jarryd Lowder for a split bill at Dixon Place. Photos by David Ratzlow.
September 2011
Drop
A site specific piece created with Jarryd Lowder for the WestFest Location Performance at the Westbeth Center for the Arts.
This event was covered in the New York Times here. And photographed here.
May 2011
photo by Hayes Peter Mauro
Voice-over
Created with Jarryd Lowder for Forward Motion Theater, RE:Vision.
February 2010
The Rover Show
October 2010
Photos by Hayes Peter Mauro:
Heel²
In collaboration with Jarryd Lowder.
May 2010
And again, in pink. Performed as part of Low Lives 3 international festival of live performance, curated and produced by Jorge Rojas:
Sad Dance
This was an improvisation in response to the increased rental fees at Joyce Soho, making the space unavailable to me.
December 2009
2face
Co-created with Jarryd Lowder. Photos by Dese'Rae L. Stage
November 2009
Stress Positions
A collection of short works that critique the "enhanced interrogation techniques" of the US Government. Created for a full-length show at Roulette in NYC.
May 2009
Heel
In collaboration with Jarryd Lowder.
December 2008
Photos by Brandon Jacobs:
2007
Held
April 2005
Pictures from the undergrad, UNLV Dance
1997-2001
The Beginning