CHOREOGRAPHY

 
 

Choreography

 
 

fever dream

world premiere: Dance Gallery Festival, NYC, 2016 | company premiere: Dance Kaleidoscope, Indianapolis, 2025

music credits: “Naked as We Came,” “Fever Dream” by Iron & Wine

runtime: 8 mins

hifi

world premiere: Dance Kaleidoscope, Indianapolis, 2024

music credits: “Round and Round,” “Hoop-De-Doo,” “Hot Diggity,” “Magic Moments,” “Don’t Let the Stars Get in Your Eyes” by Perry Como, “So Long, Stay Well” by Rock Hudson

runtime: 16 mins

ROULETTE

world premiere: Vitacca Ballet, Houston, 2024

music credits: “Easy Living” by Bill Evans, “Ole” by John Coltrane

runtime: 23 mins

afterlight

world premiere: Houston Contemporary Dance Company, Houston, 2023

music credits: “Dear Lord” by John Coltrane Quartet (feat. Roy Haynes)

runtime: 6 mins

overlap

world premiere: Vitacca Ballet, Houston, 2022

music credits: “Andante dal Concerto in Sib.Magg. per Violino e Archi #143 ‘In due cori’” by Antonio Vivaldi

runtime: 6 mins

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dusk

work-in-progress presented by National Choreographers Initiative and performed by selected dancers from Sacramento Ballet; this work contributed greatly to the 2024 work “ROULETTE”

music credits: “Ole” by John Coltrane

runtime: 16 mins

flock

world premiere: University of Richmond, 2020

music credits: “Aheym” by Bryce Dessner, performed by Kronos Quartet

runtime: 9 mins

Out of the blues

world premiere: Houston Contemporary Dance Company, 2019

music credits: “All Blues” by Miles Davis

runtime: 12 mins

linger longer

world premiere: Mareck Dance, Missouri, 2018

music credits: “Linger Longer,” “Birthday Suit,” “Come Along,” “Linger a While” by Cosmo Sheldrake

runtime: 14 mins

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Begin again

world premiere: METdance, Houston, 2018

music credits: “Hold Me Down” and “Blessed” by Daniel Caesar

runtime: 5 mins

longstoryshort

Audience Choice award winner (Dance Gallery Festival NYC), 2018

music credits: “Somebody Else Is Taking My Place” by Peggy Lee, “Higher” by Rihanna, “Oh What a Day” by Ingrid Michaelson

runtime: 8 mins

ask and answer

world premiere: University of Richmond, 2017

music credits: “The Cultural Ambassador” by Laurie Anderson

runtime: 7 mins

suite hearts

world premiere: Joffrey Ballet Chicago Studio Company as a 2017 Winning Works awardee

music credits: “Atom Hearts Club Suite, No. 1, Op. 70b” by Takashi Yoshimatsu, performed by Sachio Fujioka & BBC Philharmonic Orchestra

runtime: 12 mins