Enveloped
2004 / duet / 6 min.
premiere: Ballet Builders 2004, Florence Gould Hall
music: The Section Quartet - Radiohead, Let Down
A duet of resistant co-dependency for a woman that can't get off the ground without a partner and a man who becomes immobilized the minute he meets her only to regain his freedom when the game goes too far.
Entrada
2003 / solo / 6 min.
premiere: sushi Visual and Performing Arts Space - San Diego, CA
music: Vox
A sultry solo to the flamenco guitar drawing scenes of seduction and hidden motives.
Emotional Archives
2002 / 4 dancers with live rock band / 30 min.
premiere: Casa de la Cultura - Tijuana, Mexico
composer: Alan Lechusza
performed: ir
A remembrance of things lost and found from an intimacy with a friend to a need to break free from family.
Deceleration
2001 / trio / 9 min.
premiere: University of California, San Diego Dance Ensemble
music: Arvo Part
A string of madness runs through a trio threatening to tear them apart.
Night Swimming
2001 / 4 dancers / 9 min.
premiere: Celebrate Dance Festival, San Diego
music: "Requiem for a Dream" Soundtrack
Disconnection leads to solitude in a dance for four that never cross paths.
Flying Blind
2001 / duet with 5 live musicians / 13 min.
composer: Alan Lechusza
A pair of dancers on pointe make there way across the stage as a woman in white drops yards of red fabric covering the stage as live musicians hanging above the stage layer the music with radio interference and dissident chords.
Karaoke 101
2001 / 6 dancers / 13 min.
premiere: University of California, San Diego Dance Ensemble
music: Pet Shop Boys, Frank Sinatra, Swan Lake, Patsy Cline, Eric Clapton, The Beatles, Kermit the Frog
Using the cast's favorite songs, line dancing, bob-sledding and synchronized swimming this dance is a wild spin through the greatest hits from Swan Lake to Kermit the Frog.
Bus Stop
2000 / solo / 10 min.
premiere: Sushi Visual and Performance Space - San Diego, CA
music: Jason Robinson (saxophone improvisation)
true story - A meeting at the bus stop leads to an impromptu collaboration.
Pink Slipcover
2000 / duet / 6 min.
premiere: San Diego State University - San Diego, CA
co-choreographed with Alison Dietterle-Smith
A duet of all things pink.
Distances
2000 / 5 dancers / 12 min.
premiere: Mandeville Auditorium - San Diego, CA
music: Philip Glass
A story of two sisters apart for the first time.
* 2000 Stewart Award for Excellence in Choreography - University of California, San Diego
Theater
The Booth Variations
2004 / Director: Nick Philippou / 59 East 59th Street Theater - New York, NY
Midsummer's Night Dream
2002 / Director: James Winker / Mandell Weiss Forum - San Diego, CA
The Lucky Spot
2000 / Director: Amy Scholl / Forum Studio - San Diego, CA