Though Butoh has often been intermingled in courses on Physical Theatre and side-lined as a somehow ‘exotic’ movement form, I believe that training in Butoh deserves its place as a primary approach to developing the movement and imagination of actors across genres.
It’s been two years in the making, but I’m excited to announce my very first peer-reviewed article in an academic journal!
After more than a year of event-planning, logistics, research, writing, and peer-review, I’m excited to announce that I’ve just published …
This 50-minute movement class for actors/performers is inspired by some of the key teachings of French theatre practitioner, Jacques Lecoq (1921 – 1999).
I believe that the stories of global majority people (especially Black & Indigenous folx) should be seen, understood, supported, and celebrated.
On August 8, 2019 at the Association for Theatre in Higher Education Annual Conference in Orlando, Florida, I had the pleasure of leading a modified version of my signature Sunrise Yoga class as part of the All-Conference Warm-Up Series, sponsored by the Theatre Movement Educators focus group (ATME).
I’m thrilled to be speaking at the Association for Theatre Movement Educator’s (ATME) Debut Artist-Scholar Panel, sharing my presentation “Empowering Actors Through Viewpoints” on the cross-genre potential of Anne Bogart & Tina Landau’s “Viewpoints of Space & Time.”
Here’s a handy flowchart I created back in 2018, when my MFA cohort at Dell’Arte International was devising our original tragedy, Citizens of Nowhere. It can help you determine whether the plot of a play you’re reading, writing, or devising is “simple” or “complex”, contains recognitions or reversals of various kinds, and/or otherwise conforms or diverges from some of the classic dramaturgical structures which Aristotle articulated in his Poetics.
Recently I finished reading an amazing book entitled Practice As Research in the Arts: Principles, Protocols, Pedagogies, Resistances (2013), edited by Robin Nelson. Full of global perspective; academic, yet accessible in its tone, this book is an essential read for artists interested in research or academics interested in creative practice.
I’m excited to be performing a brand-new act as my signature clown character, Giuseppe Macaroni as part of an upcoming benefit for the incredible non-profit Clowns Without Borders.
