Performance and Art Practice
TINY GLITTER DANCES, 2021
“Tiny Glitter Dances” premiered over Zoom and was funded by the National Arts and Disability Center. This piece centers on queer crip grief, pleasure, longing, and care during the COVID-19 pandemic. Performed, composed, and directed by an all queer and disabled team, the piece highlights the rich archive of small gestures that we call upon for ritual, belonging, and care of community and self. The piece was created and rehearsed over Zoom in dancers’ domestic spaces and performed to an original composition by top ten Billboard producer La Femme Bear.
CRIP MAGIC SPELLS 2019
THE BREAKOUT ROOM, 2021
A Zoom makeup tutorial interactive performance from the start of the COVID pandemic, Danspace Composition Showing,
GRIEF DIAMONDS, 2020
Audio description: Poetic audio description of the piece “Grief Diamonds,” performed at the Eastern Michigan University Disability Arts Symposium in 2020, written by my collaborator, Rafi Ruffino Darrow, and myself that integrates access as artistry.
SPOILED, 2019
A reflection on aging and disposibility in dance culture performed at Oakland’s Danspace as a part of the Composition Class Showing.
Performance Reel
Reel shows clips of performance, dance, burlesque, choreography, and chancellor impersonation.
Chancellor Drag
Wherein I dragged as various chancellors within the University of California System from 2017-2019
Regarding my Carol Christ drag, the New Yorker reflects:
Shortly before winter break, Carol Christ recorded a YouTube video. “In many ways, it was a classic Berkeley semester,” she said, “as we dealt with complex, controversial issues that played out across the campus and the country.” A Berkeley student recorded a parody, holding a mug of tea and wearing a Carol Christ costume consisting of a gray wig and a sweater cape. In a chipper voice, she spoke of “a classic Berkeley semester” in which “Nazis frolicked across the campus”—a result, the Christ impersonator said, “of my neoliberal, Fascist-aligned white feminism.” She topped off her tea with a generous pour of whiskey.
Burlesque Performance Pics
