Performance-Making
I work collaboratively to create original performance that responds to issues of public health, community concerns, and the practice of questioning and performing justice.
Below are a few examples of performance-making that represent my scope of collaborative, community-based performance.
Projekt Performing Justice
What does disability justice look like in Poland in 2024?
This project explores experiences of living with various disabilities in urban and rural areas of Poland. This project was a partnership between the Center for Imagining and Performing Justice (CIPJ) Kulawa Warszawa, and the United States Embassy in Poland. The process offered an opportunity for twenty participants to come together to explore their experiences of living with disabilities in Poland and to share experiences of injustice and dream about worlds that contain justice. After a 2-week collaborative devising devising process, participants performed to an audience of 400 people.
See photos and video from this process and performance, August 2024
Curiosity & Connection: A Performance
What makes me curious?
What brings me a sense of awe?
How does my curiosity help me connect to others?
This community-engaged performance is an invitation to remember what makes us curious, to notice what curiosity feels like in the body, and to explore how curiosity might help us engage with each other. Performed only twice, in Austin and Smithville, TX, this performance will return as a workshop series for community members to explore their own stories as a way to build connection to others. Coming to Prizer Gallery as a workshop-residency in Fall 2025.
See photos from this performance in March 2024
Get Sexy. Get Consent.
What does consent look and sound like?
How do we know when consent is present?
This interactive performance was created in collaboration with students at the University of Texas at Austin for Voices Against Violence, a project of the UT Austin Counseling and Mental Health Center. Get Sexy. Get Consent. invites audience members to consider what consent looks and sounds like. Created in 2010, Get Sexy. toured on and off campus until 2019, performing to thousands of students, faculty, staff, and community members.
See photos in porfolio.