Artist Statement:
I aim to challenge performance traditions & create dynamic, accessibly original, 21st Century work through choreography & instruction. By pairing classic & barbaric forms of dance & theater, my evolving hybrid-brand of performance attempts to demystify the enigmatic, sometimes cryptic, art form of dance by rummaging through the humor & profundity in everyday rituals & landscapes. This alliance between the ethereal realm of dance & tangible, everyday experience creates an accessible forum for integration, not only for the dance community but also for the general public. My aim is to develop a bridge brand between these different forms in order to affirm their merit to a mass audience.
M I X E D M A R R I A G E S
October 21 & 22 2011, Highways Performance Space
In Mixed Marriages, an evening of tragic, dance comedy, Andrae & I slammed opposing attitudes, objects & concepts together from our past & present to reveal universal themes of love & loneliness.
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M I X E D M A R R I A G E S / B R E A K D O W N
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Screening of United
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Cutbacks |
 United is a short film following romance from the knees down. (collaboration with Actor/Filmmaker Jesse Schoem) |
 A Bathroom Follies revision, the drunk rocker was replaced w/a drunk, tuxedo-clad richie, mirroring the ever-widening gap between America's
"haves" & "have nots".
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| Party To-Go |
The Pick Up Artist |
 Andrae & I are switched roles for this Go Metro / Mass Transit piece about a sad & happy waiter. (i.e. the happy waiter dances his ass off) |
 Inspired by Swiffer's current ad campaign wherein lonely people portray dirt hoping to be "picked up" by Swiffer's extraordinary magnetism. |
&O H, T H E R E 'S M O R E T O O . . .
M A S S T R A N S I T
March 6, 2011, Bootleg Theater
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A special THANK YOU to our Donors!
A dynamic evolution of the Go Metro series, Mass Transit is a wildly
theatrical, urban souffle' of dance, gesture, noise &
movement. In this 40-minute performance installation directly inspired by real Metro happenings, the filthy, privileged & faithful strive, meander & sext within intimate proximity. Mass Transit further
observes the human condition by dramatizing public communities & the
individual's role within them.
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Co-Creator & Costumer: Andrae Gonzalo
Composer (Class Menagerie & In Transit): Sam Widaman
Composer (Party To-Go): David Bell
Composer (Class Menagerie & In Transit): Sam Widaman
Composer (Party To-Go): David Bell
A special THANK YOU to our Donors!
G O M E T R O
"You're the ride of your life"
"You're the ride of your life"
May 23 & 24 2008, Highways Performance Space
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In Go Metro, these performers weave a new metropolitan lore directly inspired by the mundane & extraordinary scenarios & individuals experienced within public transit. The L.A. metro system, already a vast, surreal landscape of the comic & tragic, provides an ideal setting to explore the idea of collective mobility, whether social or emotional.
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February 15 & 16 2007, Highways Performance Space
Each of these pieces focuses on the public performances that occur the moment we expose our human intimacies to the florescent gaze of “the john." Whether transformed by the anxiety of pending urine test results, the vexing pretense of female social politics, or even the simple pleasures of an illicit blowjob, the bathroom still remains the quintessential “room of rest" & a repository of those experiences which unite us all as human beings.
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SLIDE SHOW