Not just personal, but systemic, collective, and ongoing rupture. And still, the drive to make, to reach toward meaning and remain in dialogue with something alive hasn’t disappeared. It’s simply harder to access alone.
This is where I meet artists 1:1 ~ generating material, developing ideas, and working across process, projects, and thresholds.
I don’t know your whole story. But I’ve walked alongside artists who feel that exact fracture. Who are reckoning with what creativity means now. Who are circling something not fully known, rethinking everything — yet still carrying that signal inside.
MY STORY
Every practice has a beginning.
I grew up in a working-class neighborhood north of Boston, where a life in the arts wasn’t considered possible. I made my way into art school, into galleries, into dance, onto stages, collaborations and continually, into myself. I didn’t wait. I carved a path that was singular, rigorous, self-directed. Over decades, the work has been recognized and supported by fellowships, residencies, and awards from the Guggenheim, MacDowell, and the National Endowments for the Arts.
One constant runs through everything I’ve made, whether painting in Normandy, dancing solo in New York, writing, composing, teaching, or collaborating: the source is internal, instinctual. I follow the signal. I trust the form it asks for. That same compass, attunement, authorship, expansion, is what I help other artists access.
I’ve trained myself to listen closely to what wants to emerge. To translate instinct into form. To recognize creative language travels across disciplines. I attune to people, to ideas, to creative propositions, to whatever stands at the threshold.
I’m not here to lead with my own story. I’m here to work beside yours ~ with the material, the questions, and the person becoming inside it.
Loss, rupture, reinvention, they mark us, but they also reveal new forms. We arrive again and again. What matters is staying in relationship, with ourselves, with our questions, with what’s next.
This 1:1 work is not a departure from my creative life, it is the next iteration of it. I bring the same rigor, attention, and reverence to this work as to art-making itself. Because helping others create is exactly that.
What matters most is that this is your work. I walk alongside it with precision and care, shaping what’s emerging, challenging what’s stuck, and recognizing what’s already strong. When invited, I engage fully, not to override, but to collaborate, co-architect, and catalyze.
WHY THIS WORK, WHY NOW?
For a long time, my studio was a physical space, a place of writing, choreography, painting, performance, and collaborative creation. I facilitated workshops and art labs, taught across programs and institutions, and shaped spaces where others could move through their own thresholds. I spent years inside rehearsal rooms, classrooms, exhibition spaces, and long-form residencies, building work across disciplines and forms.
Then a split in the road appeared. I’m sure you know that feeling. I knew I had to pivot deeply. Not from the work itself, but from the narratives and forcefields that had piloted it. At MacDowell, I began to deconstruct those drivers, dismantling the frameworks that had once co-authored everything I made. I needed to find out who I was without the old machinery, and to make space for what could emerge.
Artists reach out to work with me at many points in their arc, stepping into new material, circling back to unfinished work, navigating transition, or sensing that something wants to emerge. Some arrive with a fragment. Others with a realized project.
We begin where you are. I meet you where the work lives. Together, we expand what’s forming, make space for what’s unresolved, and strengthen what’s already alive.
There is no preset curriculum. There is no formula.
It is a space for active discovery and hands-on making.
Something is forming. You can feel it. Let’s shape what’s next, together.
ARTIST MENTORING & TEACHING
1:1 ARTIST SUPPORT SESSIONS
2022 – present
1:1 sessions and creative collaboration are at the heart of my current practice. I work one-to-one with artists to deepen process, develop material, clarify direction, and build the work from the inside out.
With you, I work across disciplines, inside and alongside what’s being made ~ offering rigorous feedback, devising and ideating, shaping structure, developing material, and building the conditions for experiment, revision, and change.
GUEST TEACHING & ARTIST RESIDENCIES
A Space for Ideas, Engaging in the Arts, NYC
Guest Artist / Instructor ~ Fall 2019 | 12-Week Course
Butler University Honors College | New York City Intern Program
A Space for Ideas, Engaging in the Arts, NYC
Guest Artist / Instructor ~ Fall 2018 | 12-Week Course
Butler University Honors College | New York City Intern Program
Artist-in-Residence ~ 2016
Jordan College of the Arts | Butler University
~ Portal 1812, original evening-length premiere for Arts Fest,
~ Designed / Taught Two Semester-Long Courses:
Creating Across Disciplines: Instant Ensemble + Solo Work
Jordan College of the Arts Special Seminar
Body, Space, Time.
Department of Theater | Jordan College of the Arts
The residency invited participation from students across the College of the Arts ~ a first of its kind. I designed and taught the interdisciplinary studio course that became the generative engine for Portal 1812, an original, devised, 90-minute work developed in collaboration with students and premiered at Butler’s Arts Fest.
See How I Worked with These Emerging Artists→
Information Architecture / Intro Lab
Guest Artist / Instructor ~ 2013 | Single Workshop
Theater Academy of London | London, UK
A Space For Ideas
Guest Artist / Instructor 2010 | Master Class
Montclair University | New Jersey
Information Architecture / Knowledge Production
Guest Artist / Instructor ~ 2010 | 12-Week Course
Ohio University | Global Theatre Institute NYC Program
How am I here?
A Workshop in the Epistemology and Pedagogy of Performance
Guest Artist / Co-Instructor with Robert Sember ~ 2009 | 12-Week Course
Ohio University | Global Theatre Institute NYC Program
EXPERIENCE
Here are a few touch points from my professional path.
FELLOWSHIPS & RECOGNITION
•MacDowell Interdisciplinary Fellowship ~ research deconstructing the 1812 Overture and the writing of WILDLIFE, a novella.
• WILDLIFE, a completed manuscript, selected as a finalist for the Zone 3 Press Creative Nonfiction Book Award.
• Guggenheim Fellowship in Choreography.
• Recipient of National Endowment for the Arts grants, artist residencies and additional institutional and project support.
SOLO WORK & COLLABORATIONS
• Invited by Bill T. Jones to co-create, premiere, and tour an Ursonate, becoming his first collaborative partner since Arnie Zane. Bill T. Jones / Arnie Zane Dance Company.
• Invited by Robert Wilson at the Watermill Center on multiple projects, including Death, Destruction in Detroit III, Barcelona Point, and The Lady From the Sea with Dominique Sanda.
• Soloist and choreographer whose original work has been presented at The Joyce Theater, Dance Theatre Workshop, The Kitchen, and internationally. Conceived and designed all visual and directorial elements of my performance work.
• Guest artist with dance companies in Boston and New York City
• BFA, Fine Arts Painting, with studies at the Art Institute of Boston and Massachusetts College of Art. Recipient of Citations of Excellence and Dean’s List honors.
• Immersive summer intensive in landscape painting, Veules-les-Roses, Normandy, France.
• A decade of professional painting practice, with work exhibited in galleries.
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