Nocturne (2012)
In Nocturne, audiences encounter a low platform the scale of a bed, where a single performer slowly shifts from side to side as if amidst restless sleep. A video projection adjacent to the bed displays a ‘live feed’ of the performer, but a second body appears with her. This virtual body slowly shifts and rolls in response to the live performer’s movements. A meditation on absence and loss, the piece aims to capture a somatic understanding of the memory of another.
Walk With Me (2011)
Walk with Me was a site-specific piece made for individual audience members in downtown Chicago. This work used the conceit of a series of voicemail messages left for the audience member, via an mp3 player, from a character who once lived in the city. Each audience member walks through a park and eventually travels to the upper floors of a nearby building, looking out onto the street, which they just traversed, seeing others experience the same walk. The piece invites the audience to embody a sense of distance by suddenly seeing their own pathway through it – from a bird’s eye view of the city below. In this piece, a public space transforms into a personal landscape. By occupying public space through creative and relatively low-tech means, the piece inquies about the power of our own personal relationships and about how our subjectivity might supersede, mix with, and traverse the order of the city street.
The Distance Between You and Me (2011)
In The Distance Between You and Me, I inscribe and erase a series of fragments of texts from voicemail messages left for me by friends in other cities, on a wall covered with black paper using thick, white chalk. As the chalk slowly disintegrates into dust over the two-hour durational performance, the remaining written fragments become a visual metaphor for the ‘texts’ – movements and experiences – inscribed in our bodies. While I slowly move through a set of gestures, a video of a phantom arm mysteriously appears on my torso caressing me. A camera tracks my movements so that as I back away from the paper, wherever I travel, this virtual body appears as well – touching me, leaving some virtual trace.
Distant (2010)
A video installation that mixes media and invites audience interaction. The viewer must move the flour atop a drafting table to read the handwritten script underneath. Simultaneously, a video of an imaginary map appears over the changing topography.
33 Desires (2009)
A piece in two forms - a solo performance made of task-oriented choreography and a three-channel video. In the performane, a woman manipulates paper revealing a video of writing drafts, slowly leading up to a monologue of ordinary desires. Using the metaphor of writing, editing, and creation, the solo speaks to the longing for reaching some sense of completion, and the inability to make it there as poignantly human. The three-channel video developed out of the performance and creates a video-version of the piece.
Chance (2007)
A video-dance and public art project presented by Transformer that considers being in the ‘right place at the right time.' Presented at four sites in and around DC in fall 2007, eerie, silent beautiful video-dances appeared on the outside of buildings so that they seemed to emerge out of bricks and cement. Kriston Capps reiewed the piece in the Washington Post's Express, in which he described the work as capturing moments of "incidental grace and connectivity."
Façade (2006)
A work created in collaboration with Ginger Wagg, Façade took audiences on an ‘alternate tour’ through the Warehouse's upper-floors in the downtown DC during the last weekend of September and early October 2006. Taking as its impulse the recent redevelopment of the area, this interactive work inquired about our contemporary experience of urban renewal with the uneven building that typifies 'redevelopment.' With slow shifts and rebuilding of sites, lots and neighborhoods, over time we are often unable to remember or identify what stood in these places before. The piece imagined the secret histories of previous buildings and their inhabitants. In early 2008, a DVD-R version of the piece was released.
Efficiency (2005)
Featuring an original score by UK experimenter Scanner, Efficiency used video of fast-paced DC life as a b ackdrop for an exploration of the tension associated with our culture's ongoing quest for “free time." The dance trio for the stage was one of four dance projects commissioned by Washington Performing Arts Society during its 2005/2006 season.
Additional Past Projects (2002-2005)
Find information on additional past projects.
See also a portfolio of still images of past projects.
