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Sonnet (Stroke)   (2009)

 REDCAT, Los Angeles, CA
Two performers
Music: Sergio Cervetti
Video: extrapixel 83

Dance for a stroke survivor and his wife that explores the changes in the pair’s relationship as they respond to unexpected life changes.

Blackbirds Flying Home (Masao)    (2009)

 18th Street Arts Center, Santa Monica, CA
Solo
Music; KODO
Video: Jerome Thomas
Text: Ken Takemoto

Part of the evening length Far From Home.  In movement, song and spoken word, the piece explores one man’s experience of the Japanese Diaspora.

Calypso  (2009)

 Highways Performance Space Santa Monica, CA
Trio
Music: traditional and Norman Span
Video: Jerome Thomas
Text: Pat Payne
Costumes: Marcus Kuiland-Nazario

The collage reveals some of the qualities of the Caribbean Diaspora though song, gesture and Krump dancing.

Mariachi  (2009)

 Highways Performance Space Santa Monica, CA

Trio
Music: traditional, A. Lorca (from a 1956 recording of Prietita de Ojos Negros)
Video: Ian Zinn
Text: Margarita Tinajero, Edgar Miramontes
Costumes: Marcus Kuiland-Nazario

Part of the evening length Far From Home.  With monologues in Spanish and Spanglish, the dance highlights the Mexican culture and its global dissemination.
Gold Men (2006) Highways Performance Space Santa Monica, CA

4 performers
Text (Yiddish): the performers
Music: Frank London
Set: Keith Glassman        

Also part of the evening length Far From Home.  The work for one male dancer and a chorus of three intergenerational men refers to the immigrant experience, boxing and Klezmer music.

 
Audacious (2005) Highways Performance Space Santa Monica, CA - 40 minutes
5 performers
Music: Sergio Cervetti
Video: Jerome Thomas
Costumes: Claire Townsend
Based on interviews with scholars, clergy and people on the street, the work examines the concept of hope in our contemporary conflicted world.
Personal (2004) Highways Performance Space Santa Monica, CA - 45 minutes
4 performers
Music: Klucevsek, Galas, Monk, Reich, Cage/Tudor, Partch
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Incorporating contemporary music, dance, video and performance, the work explores life’s hidden rituals and turns everyday activities into theatrical events while it highlights the unspoken details and patterns inherent in all our lives.
Mavericks (2001) Sushi Performance and Visual Art, San Diego, CA - 60 minutes
5 dancers, 3-13 community surfers
Music: Alan Terricciano. Jon Szanto, Traditional Tibetan chant, Kahauano Lake Trio, Handel, Brian Wilson
 

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Mavericks exposes the passion the southern California surf community has for its art/sport, its religious-like devotion to wave riding, and the athleticism and dancing involved in this multi-generational production.
White Guy Swell Dance for Duke (2000) California Choreographers Dance Festival, Laguna Beach, CA - 8 minutes
1 dancer
Music: Traditional Tibetan chant
Surfing’s shapes and forms are magically transformed by the dancer, a folding chair and Tibetan chanting.
Test (1995) University of California, Irvine 10 minutes
1 dancer
Music: Brahms A German Requiem, first movement
Serving as a metaphor for contemporary urban life, the work makes reference to religious iconography, to homelessness and to immediate and ongoing challenges to survival.
Slip Knot (1994) Dance Theater Workshop, New York, NY - 10 minutes
2 dancers
Music: from Norma by Bellini
 

Slip Knot “display[s] an inherently unequal relationship: his feet were on the ground always, hers never. Whether upright or lying on the floor, he always [bears] her weight..” (Elizabeth Zimmer, The Village Voice)
Bout (1991) Cunningham Studio, New York, NY - 12 minutes
2 dancers
Music: Bach Cello Suite
A choreographic blend of dancing, testosterone and beer highlighted by familiar characters in comic situations.