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2021
Dance No. 1, Performance Mix Festival, New Dance Alliance, NYC
Blur, Open Call at The Shed, NYC
With Marion, This is a Dance: Dance and Process 2021, The Kitchen at Queenslab, NYC
For All Your Life Studies, In Practice: You may go, but this will bring you back, SculptureCenter, NYC
2020
Untitled, EstroGenius Festival, The Kraine Theater, NYC (virtual)
Talented, Center for Performance Research, NYC
2019
Roam, Artist Residency:VW Dome at MoMA PS1, NYC
Talented, ART SEED at Marble House in Dorset, VT
Talented, Movement Research at Mount Tremper Arts, Art-B-Q. Catskills, NY
Talented, Movement Research at Judson Church, NYC
Exographic Will, Three Evenings of Shared Work; Roulette Intermedium, Brooklyn, NY
In Studio / Out (video installation), Performance Studio Open House at Center for Performance Research, Brooklyn, NY
2018
Thunderdell, Performance Studio Open House at Center for Performance Research, NYC
Untitled (Thunderdell), Movement Research at Judson Church, NYC
2017
Fossil, at The Luminary gallery St. Louis, MO
A Salient Theme, beginning, La MaMa Moves! Festival, NYC
A Salient Theme, beginning, Chez Bushwick Artist-in-Residence performance, NYC
2016
Alike, included in the DoublePlus season curated by Cynthia Oliver, at Gibney Dance, NYC
Same as you, selected for Fall Movement Festival at the Center for Performance Research, NYC
Same as you, participation in Movement Research’s Fall Festival, NYC
Right as Rain, commission by the Youth Performing Arts High School, Louisville, KY
2015
Untitled, AUNTS Populous performance at BRIC Media Arts, NYC
Curatorial / Awards
Hodder Fellow, 2021-2022
Movement Research Resident Artist, 2021-2022
MacDowell Fellow, 2020
Black Artists Space to Create Residency, New Dance Alliance, 2020
Foundation for Contemporary Art Emergency Grant, 2019 and Covid-19 2020
Mertz-Gilman Late-Stage Production Grant, 2019
New York Dance and Performance “Bessie” Award, Outstanding Performer for Sustained Achievement, 2019
Marble House Project Residency, 2019
Yaddo Residency, 2019
Center for Performance Research, Artist-in-Residence, 2019
Movement Research Artist-in-Residence, 2017
Artist residency, at pOnderosa in Stolzenhagen, Germany (accepted)
Chez Bushwick Artist-in-Residence, Cycle 4/2016
Selection committee participant, Marble House Project, dance
Selection committee participant, Chez Bushwick Artist-in-Residence
Selection committee participant, Fresh Tracks at New York Live Arts
Selection committee participant, Movement Research Judson panel
Publications
With Marion, This is No Substitute for a Dance: Dance and Process 2020 On Screen at The Kitchen, 2021
Artists Reach Out: Reflections in a Time of Isolation, curated by Eva Yaa Asantewaa, 2020
A Leveling, New York Tanzkongress Salon, 2019
Critical Correspondence: in conversation with Angie Pittman, 2021; Alexis Wilkinson, 2020; mayfield brooks, 2019; Jessie Young, 2019; Tara Aisha Willis, Jess Pretty, and Jeremy Toussaint-Baptiste: What Remains, 2018; and Cynthia Oliver, 2018
Work / Education
Critical Correspondence, Co-Editor (2019 - 2021)
Jane Comfort and Company, Administrative Director (2006 - present)
Thursday Studio, Web Producer (2016 - 2019)
Ironpaper, Creative Strategies Director (2010 - 2016)
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, BFA in Dance, 2003
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