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RECENT PERFORMANCES
2005 Audacious, Highways Performance Space, Santa Monica, CA
2004 Personal, Highways Performance Space, Santa Monica, CA
  Bout, Eastern New Mexico State University; Portales, NM and elsewhere
2003 Test, Max10 @ Electric Lodge, Venice, CA
  Mavericks, Newport Beach Central Library, Newport Beach, CA
2002 Mavericks, Pacifica Performances, Pacifica and Highways Performance Space, Santa Monica, CA
  Personal, presented as a work-in-progress, Sushi Performance and Visual Art, San Diego, CA
  White Guy Swell Dance for Duke, part of the Laguna Art Museum exhibition “Surf Culture: The Art History of Surfing,” Laguna Beach, CA and Celebrate Dance (Balboa Park), San Diego, CA
2001 Mavericks, Sushi Performance and Visual Art, San Diego and Carlsbad Cultural Arts Center, CA
  Channel Swell, Rio Hondo Junior College; Whittier, CA
  White Guy Swell Dance for Duke, Performance Club, World Arts and Cultures @ UCLA
  Bout, Los Angeles Dance Invitational, Los Angeles, CA
  Slip Knot, Palm Desert Dance Festival
SELECTED CHOREOGRAPHY
2005 Audacious, Highways Performance Space, Santa Monica, CA; 5 performers
2004 Personal, Highways Performance Space, Santa Monica, CA; 4 dancers
2001 Channel Swell, Rio Hondo Junior College, Whittier, CA; 13 dancers
  Mavericks, Sushi Performance and Visual Art, San Diego; 5 dancers and 12 surfers
2000 White Guy Swell Dance for Duke, California Choreographers Festival, Laguna Beach, CA; solo
1996 Hope, Want, Will, San Diego State University, San Diego; quintet
  Blizzard, University of California, Irvine; quartet
  Crossing, University of California, Irvine; duet
1995 Test, San Diego State University Studio/Theater; San Diego, CA; solo
1994 Slip Knot, Dance Theater Workshop, New York City, NY; duet
  TestField, DIA Center for the Arts; New York City, NY; quartet
1992 Time Trial, The Music Gallery, Toronto, Canada; solo
  Backfield, DIA Center for the Arts, New York City, NY; sextet
1991 Stage Race, Merce Cunningham Studio, NYC; quartet
  Bout, Merce Cunningham Studio, NYC; duet
1990 Some Facts of Life, DIA Center for the Arts, NYC; quintet
1989 March, Maine Festival for the Arts, Portland, Maine; trio
  Story of a Life, Eden’s Expressway, NYC; duet
1988 Bare, P.S.1 Institute for Art and Urban Resources, Long Island City, NY; solo
1986 Summer, Little Red School House Dance Performance Series, NYC; quartet
GRANTS AND AWARDS
2005 Los Angeles County Arts Commission (two year grant 2005-2006)
2004 Harkness Foundation for Dance (also 1991-1994, 2001)
2002 Newport Beach (CA) Arts Commission
2001 Carlsbad (CA) Arts Office Community Arts Grant
1994 Queens Council on the Arts (company grant)
  Manhattan Community Arts Fund (company grant; also 1991-94)
  Regrant Program of BACA/The Brooklyn Arts Council (company grant;also 1993-94)
  Tamura Foundation Fellowship; University of California, Irvine
1993 Dancing In The Streets Dance Commission
Harkness Choreographers’ Space Grant at SUNY Purchase (also 1990-92)
1992 Joyce Mertz-Gilmore Foundation
  Puffin Foundation
1991 New York State Council on the Arts Decentralization Program (company grant)
1990 Foundation for Contemporary Performance Arts
1989 Maine Arts, Inc. Dance Commission
1988 DIA Center for the Arts in-kind Space Grant
  P.S. 1 Institute for Art and Urban Resources Dance Commission
1985 BACA Downtown Jurors’ Award for New Territory Series
OTHER PERFORMING EXPERIENCE
1986-87 Kenneth Rinker Dance Company; New York, Boston, Philadelphia
1983 Bebe Miller company and Anna Leo and Dancers; NYC
1982 Sharon Kinney & Dancers; Long Beach, CA
EDUCATION
1996 MFA Dance, University of California, Irvine
1986 Composition with Bessie Schonberg, NYC
1976 BA Sociology, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island