The Divided Line
This collaboration with violinist and composer Lauren Conroy, and film designer Jeff Bryant was part of the Center for Innovation in the Arts at Juilliard, led by Ed Billous. The work premiered at the Willson Theater as part of the Future Stages program.
Lucid
Lucid was created at the University of South Carolina during a guest residency at the school. The piece utilizes shadow and light, based off themes from Plato’s Allegory of the Cave.
Photo: Screen Capture from video by Adam Bernstein
Community dance forum
CDF is a project designed to connect Barnard College dancers to their community. This was achieved through the help of Barnard alum Heather Godfrey, and her organization Dance Project of Washington Heights. Through a series of workshops rooted in improvisation, storytelling, and restorative discipline, dancers and local youth created bonds based on playfulness and respect.
Recipes for Quarantine
Recipes for Quarantine is part online dance, part community engagement project. Barnard College dancers partnered with the Harlem Community Fridge to source recipes for food, how-to’s, solitude, remembrance, and just any idea for getting through the pandemic. The resulting online performance was attended by virtual audiences, and the collected recipes were shared online @art_2_eat, and in the form of cookbooks that were shared at the Fridge.
The New Orleans Project
The New Orleans Project was conceived as a multi-pronged community arts engagement project by Maxwell DePaula and Caroline Fermin, then students at The Juilliard School. A team of dancers, musicians, and actors fundraised and prepared a transdisciplinary show that they brought to New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina in 2007. The team not only performed and invited local artists to join in, but also ran youth arts classes through the Dryades YMCA, and volunteered with Hands On New Orleans clearing rubble and helping to rebuild homes. The team won recognition from Juilliard President Joseph Polisi as well as an endowment to continue the project for the next decade.
Photo: Jim Coleman
Heart, Sad face, thumbs up
This solo performance at Mount Holyoke College, utilized audience members’ phones as a way of including them in the decision-making process of the performance. As the audience voted for what should come next, the performer attempts to respond in real time. The work comments on society’s love affair with instantaneous feedback, social surveillance, and the culture of procuring “likes.”