CHOREOGRAPHY
Evening-length Productions:
• Un-Changing Nature – The Flight Deck Theater, Oakland (2019)
• Spirit & Bones – Taube Atrium Theater, San Francisco (2018)
• Homeward – Shawl-Anderson Dance Center, Berkeley (2017)
• This Land Oakland – Bringing the Outside In – Odell Johnson Theater, Laney College, Oakland (2016)
• Rocked By Women – re-staging. Malonga Casquelourd Center for the Arts (2015)
• Rocked By Women – re-conceived with director Becca Wolff. Dance Mission Theater (2014)
• Rocked By Women – multi-media work paying homage to women musicians who have shaped generations. Commissioned by QCC as part of National Queer Arts Festival (2011)
• (In The Wake Of) HOME – multi media work exploring the territories of “home”. Commissioned as part of the Artist In Motion Residency, Shotwell Studios (2007/2008)
• L1FE: mine. yours. ours. – with Freeplay Dance Crew at Dance Mission Theater (2007)
Select Shorter Works:
• “Spirit & Bones (excerpt)”, National Women’s Studies Association conference, San Francisco, CA (2019)
• “Not At The Table”, Oakland Ballet presents East Bay DANCES, Oakland, CA (2019)
• “Safety Dance”, BulbFest at The Albany Bulb, Albany, CA (2019)
• “Pandora’s Box”, San Francisco Movement Arts Festival at Grace Cathedral, SF, CA (2018)
• “Black Sky”, at “SummerFeast” in Dos Rios, CA (2017)
• “Recall” – This Land Oakland, Martin Luther King Jr Regional Shoreline, Oakland (2016)
• “Reach” – This Land Oakland, Woodminster Cascade at Joaquin Miller Park, Oakland (2016)
• “Recreate” – This Land Oakland, Lake Merritt Amphitheater, Oakland (2016)
• “Always at the Mercy of the Elements”,at Resistance and Revolution show, Oakland (2015)
• “Re-compose” – D.I.R.T. Festival, Dance Mission Theater, San Francisco (2015)
• “On The Verge, Shoulders Wide” – PUSHfest, ODC Theater, San Francisco (2014)
• “A History of Emergence” – West Wave Dance Festival, Z Space, San Francisco (2014)
• “What You Don’t See” – In The Round by New Style Motherlode at ODC Studio B, San Francisco (2014)
• “Catching Yourself” – Levy Dance Salon, San Francisco (2013)
• “Rocked By Women: Panel and Performance Excerpts” – ODC Studio B, San Francisco (2013)
• “Transforming” – Dance For Another Day at Malonga Casquelourd Center for the Arts, Oakland (2012)
Guest Choreographer:
• Mona Khan Company’s “377”, part of Awaaz at ODC Theater (2016)
• Berkeley High School’s Dance Production (2016-2017)
• SF Pride – Main Stage for Joshua Klipp, and for Asian Pacific Islander Stage for Asia Vitale (2008)
• AXIS Dance Company (2007-2008)
• Destiny Arts Youth Performance Company (2007)
• Cal State East Bay’s Dance Team (2006-2007)
• University of California’s Dance Team (2004-2011)
TV and Film Choreography:
• “Her Mother’s Daughter” film by Alejandra Cadena-Perez (2019)
• Music Videos for Various Recording Artists: Venetia, Chris Starr, Joshua Klipp, Christine Joy, and Asia Vitale
• MTV/LOGO’s Click List Top Ten video: “Rescue Me” by Joshua Klipp, Directed by Margaret Cho (2007)
Theatrical Movement Choreographer:
• “Weightless”, a rock opera from The Kilbanes at ACT’s Strand Theater, SF (2019)
• “Weightless” with Z Space for Public Theater’s Under the Radar Festival in NYC (2018)
• “We Three” in The Ground Floor Series at Berkeley Repertory Theatre (2018)
GRANTS and AWARDS
• Artist in Residence at Richardson Bay Audubon Center and Sanctuary (2020)
• Della Davidson Prize (2019)
• Artist Residency at Dos Rios (2019)
• Blum Family Foundation (2011-2019)
• Meriama Fund (2017-2019)
• Dancer in Residence at Berkeley Art Center (2018)
• Open Meadows Foundation (2018)
• Artist Residency at SAFEhouse for the Performing Arts (2016)
• City of Oakland’s Cultural Funding Program (2015 & 2016)
• Zellerbach Family Foundation (2006, 2011, 2014, 2016)
• Clorox Company Foundation’s Arts Mini Grant (2016)
• Bay Area Dance Watch, LiveBlessays Award (2015)
• Bay Area Dance Watch, Leader of the Month (May 2014)
• Bernstein Family Foundation (2012)
• Queer Cultural Center’s Creating Queer Community Grant (2011)
• Recipient of Curve Magazine’s Dancer/ Choreographer Award (2010)
• Artist In Motion Residency, Shotwell Studios (2007-2008)
• Elizabeth R. Hayes Scholarship, University of Utah, Modern Dance Dept (1997)
DANCE COMPANY MEMBER
• Sarah Bush Dance Project, San Francisco, California (2007–present)
• Dance Brigade, San Francisco, California (2001–present)
• Dance Crew, Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival (2009-2015)
• NBA Golden State Warriors, Warrior Girl, Oakland, California (2004-2005)
• Loose Change, San Francisco, California (2004)
• New Style Motherlode Dance Company, Oakland, California (1997–2003)
• Club Q Dancers, San Francisco, California (1997-2003)
• Wasatch Dance Collective, New York, New York (1999)
GUEST DANCER
• NBC/Lionsgate TV pilot “Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist”, Choreographed by Mandy Moore, SF, CA (2019)
• Zeola Gaye’s “My Brother Marvin” at Paramount Theater, Oakland, CA (2007)
• Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company’s “Continuous Replay” at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, SF, CA (2005)
• MTV/LOGO’s Click List Top Ten and SIRIUS OutQ’s Top 20 recording artist, Joshua Klipp’s “Won’t Stop Now” tour (2007)
THEATRICAL PERFORMER
• Butterfly Effect, Dance Mission Theater (2020)
• Hemorrhage: An Ablution of Hope and Despair, Dance Mission Theater (2014)
• The Proud, a play by Aaron Loeb, California & New York (2011-2012)
• Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Center REPertory Company, Walnut Creek, California (2008)
Role: “Moth/Fairies” included spoken lines, dance, aerial work, drumming, singing
• Euripides’ Iphigenia at Aulis, San Jose Repertory Theatre, San Jose, California (2007)
Role: “Chorus” included spoken lines, dancing, drumming, martial arts long sword
RADIO APPEARANCES
• Open Air, KALW, FM 91.7 San Francisco (2015, 2016, 2018)
• The Do List, KQED, FM 88.5 San Francisco (2017)
• Out In The Bay, KALW, FM 91.7 San Francisco (2015)
• The Joey Reynolds Show and XM Radio’s Lionel Show (2008
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• SIRIUS Radio – Derek & Romaine Show; and Jeremy Hovies’ OutQ (2007)
INTERNATIONAL PERFORMANCES
• Western Caribbean, Olivia Cruises, with Sarah Bush Dance Project (2010 & 2017)
• Cairo and Beirut, with Dance Brigade (2012)
• Cuba, with Dance Brigade (2011)
• Stockholm, with Joshua Klipp (2006)
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
• Dance Instructor, Berkeley YWCA, Berkeley, CA (2018-present)
• Substitute Teacher, Shawl-Anderson, Berkeley, CA (2010-present)
• Substitute Teacher, ODC, San Francisco, CA (2006-present)
• Master Class Instructor, Lines Dance Center, San Francisco, CA (2017)
• Teacher, New Style Motherlode, Oakland, CA (2007-2017)
• Teacher, Studio Azul, Berkeley, CA (2016-2017)
• Guest Instructor, “Professional Dance Training Series”, Temescal Arts Center, Oakland, CA (2014)
• Artist in Residence/Teacher, El Cerrito High School, El Cerrito, CA (2013/2014)
• Dance Instructor, Embarcadero YMCA, San Francisco, CA (2007-2016)
• Teacher, The Beat, Berkeley, CA (2008-2015)
• Teacher, Dance Mission Theater, San Francisco, CA (2004-2006)
• Teacher, Destiny Arts Center, Oakland, CA (1998-2002)
EDUCATION
• San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA (2000)
Bachelors of Art in Dance with emphasis in Performance and Choreography
• University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT (1994/1995, 1996/1997)
Two-year scholarship recipient to study Modern Dance
OTHER DANCE TRAINING
• Process and Performance Workshop with Israeli choreographer, Miriam Engel, Berkeley, CA
• Broadway Dance Center & DNA (DanceSpace), New York, NY
• Millennium Dance Complex & The Edge, Los Angeles, CA
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