Improvisation Video
Performance Excerpts Video
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Improvisation Clips
Dreaming Health Justice
“DT3” form of improvisational movement + story (interplay method, dance-talk x 3), for a project co-led, co-created with people facing advanced cancers + life-threatening illnesses
Carrack / Made of Oak / 21C
improvisational installation in historic bank vault for Carrack Gallery, independent no-commission durham arts venue with provided sound score + hafiz poetry
Committed: The Musical
improvising with script-in-development for project honoring + imagining new way of engaging bipolar, hospitalization, + community care experiences; co-devised staged reading + collaborative group production
Performance Clips
Flipping Cancer
Co-created from oral histories, devising workshops, ethnography in policy + cultural change movements with people facing advanced / stage IV cancers who become healthcare + environmental justice advocates
Harambee Collective
Community performance with Harambee Collective, bantaba, Mandiani (Roberts Joila), Aké (Chuck Davis)
Arts + Social Change Global Conference
UNC African Studies Center, honoring poet Dr. Mīcere Gīthae Mūgo (bridge with audience members after mentees’ embodied poetry performances, co-directed for an interdisciplinary performance research course)
Notes
As areas not well-represented in these 2 minute video clips, my experiences with group-collaborative, weight sharing dance methodologies, and public performance installation work all have better photographs than film I realize!
This is based on the nature of many projects where the focus is the community’s experience + confidentiality or the partnership is with people who have health or student privacy protections.
I’ll also hope to ensure more representative live film in the future, when possible — as someone not so great at self-representation vs. experiencing the more shining technical moments of dance performances / dance theatre, this project opportunity + your methods of collaboration + devising for l/are we dreaming lit a spark in me to apply, anyway. So: thank you!