Tooling Social Media in Dance EducationI presented my work on this topic as an interactive presentation at the NDEO conference in 2017
an ongoing experiment to utilize the language of social media platforms and objects as ways to engage, teach, and speak about performance. social media is a place, I believe, that holds vast possibilities for engaging students not only in the literacy of dance and performance but also can be a tool that can be used to experiment with the act of composition.
Reading Dance: a three step process for understanding dance as social commentary, political embodiment, and anti-racism
I presented this practice as a lecture to honors students at FIU in Miami, Florida
reading dance is a methodology I have developed over the past five years which I teach in my lecture, technique, and composition courses in dance. this methodology examines three key components to all performance based work, which aids the viewer in understanding performance from an anti-racist worldview, as well as determining markers that aid the viewer in maintaining empathy or at the least, understanding for more abstract and conceptual work.
Finding Presence and Liveness in Network Performance
this main idea was presented as my thesis work in graduate school. this is ongoing work, ongoing dabblings.
basically this is about developing a practice of reading movement over and within the network space and sensing liveness in the network-bound communication to build authentic relationship. this work involves the idea that the networked online space is a place outside of time. this practice is initiated through the framework of dance and performance but it ultimately is about exploring the living and the richness of being in the 'on' space of the network.