DANCES
Original funny dances by an oddball choreographer performed over 10 years of producing live events.
Choreographer Mission
Defy and demystify modern dance traditions by humorously exploiting everyday rituals and landscapes.
FOMO, or “Fear Of Missing Out”, rolls around in the modern compulsion to “keep busy”. 21st century self-involvement will be explored through a relatively amusing solo, in a post-modern dance style, conceptually mirroring the experience of being inundated with mental focal points, opportunities and places to be, both physical and digital.
Babs' Favorite Sound is a live dance meditation on the human orgasm (Barbara Streisand’s favorite sound, as revealed on the Actor’s Studio in 2004). I interpret Andrae’s orgasmic rendition of the singer’s Oscar-winning hit, The Way We Were, with movement invoking all four stages of Masters and Johnson’s Model of Sexual Response.
The Pick Up Artist is inspired by a Swiffer Ad Campaign wherein lonely people are depicted as dirt or mud hoping to be "picked up" by Swiffer's extraordinary magnetism. I've built a vocabulary of jazz dance moves that enable me to clean the floor with my own body.
With overlapping vignettes of dance, gesture, noise and movement, Mass Transit is a theatrical, non-stop 30-minute performance installation inspired by real-life Metro happenings.
In 6 separate vignettes, Go Metro weaves a new metropolitan lore directly inspired by the mundane and extraordinary scenarios and individuals experienced within public transit. The metro system, already a vast, surreal landscape of the comic and tragic, provides an ideal setting to explore the idea of collective mobility, whether social or emotional.
In Bathroom Follies, 5 vignettes focus on the public performances that occur the moment we expose our human intimacies to the fluorescent gaze of "the john."
Characters include a lowly bathroom attendant, mean girls in front of the mirror, people being tested for drugs, people looking for safe public places to cry, and a nightmarish bowel beast.