PROCESS & PROJECT SUPPORT 

For individual Artists or group ensembles and collaborations.

What Pilots An Idea – How Do You Get At It, Wrangle it, Illuminate it?
The right conversation can change everything.

This process is a powerful tool to accelerate learning and deepen insights, to identify and target specific areas for skill development, to utilize feedback as a compass to adjust your trajectory and align your work, to receive encouragement and motivation through deeply experienced & nuanced support and as an innovation catalyst. You’ll be guided through a personal growth trajectory aligned and tailored to what’s most meaningful to your vision and aspirations at any stage.

I architect custom creative engagement and guidance that is engineered to support your growth, discovery and exploration in the pursuit of what matters most to you creatively. Not only for your process and exploration, but for building your work from the ideas up.

Expect to:
Discover, reclaim, reinvigorate your creative voice
Free yourself from an unruly inner critic
Learn strategies and processes for robust idea building
Embolden confident creative action
Work past blocks and fatigue to discover a flourish of meaningful expression
Develop a versatile creative language and conceptual fluidity
Build a repository of ideas and learn to construct scalable ideas to expand or adapt as desired
Companion with a sustainable creative momentum
Revive your creative heartbeat
Brain storm and test ideas a safe, supportive space
Receive nuanced and comprehensive feedback
Explore and discover what your work is right now
Resuscitate a consistent practice

Sessions take place over Zoom or onsite, however a majority of the work takes place outside of session. You’ll receive “response materials” via email including notes, prompts, inquiry, resource materials that we’ll consistently volley with. This interaction is crucial for momentum and provides alternative space to learn, think and make. This process is essential to our working together. 

 

CREATING ACROSS DISCIPLINES 

Instant ensemble + solo work.

This studio course takes an interdisciplinary approach to devising performance.

Together we will pool our collective experiences to work through these questions:
How can we learn to see and create differently?
How can we mine deeper meaning within creative exploration and translate it into form?

With class time balanced between individual and ensemble investigations, the course will integrate set movement, structured improvisation and written, visual and sonic prompts designed to lead you toward the invention of your own work. Participants are asked to develop and curate materials throughout the course to construct solo projects.

Designed as an intensive eight-week course or full semester. Individual time is scheduled for mentoring solo projects. Workshops can be structured for shorter periods.

 

ENGAGING IN THE ARTS, NYC 

Engaging in the arts is integral to any New York Experience. It is rich with work from all disciplines and voices, including your own. For this course we will meet as a creative research team to analyze, appreciate and respond to a variety of diverse art events. Our fidelity will be to the process of creative investigation and experimentation as a form of deeper listening and understanding.

As a creative research team, our goals will be:
to analyze and appreciate art observers across artistic disciplines, (visual, performative, conceptual)
to integrate insights and creatively respond via indiviidual assignments, sharing research and process with the team.

Our attention will toggle between acts of witnessing, to acts of verbal response, to acto of interpreting what we see and understand through a variety of lenses and modalities.

We weill pool our collective experiences, posing these questions as a guide for our research.
How do we prepare our lens to freshly encounter a work?
How does the work want to be seen — how do we approach critical conversation that’s specific to it?
How can we learn to see, listen and create differently?
How can we mind deeper meaning within creative exploration and translate it into form?

You will gain:
Exposure to multiple perspectives to art works and ideas.
Increased ability to see, hear, and translate art experience into active observation and critical assessment.
Experience working on a creative research team to translate and process responses collectively.

We will respond to each art event by:
1. Analyzing & Reflecting / Discussion Platforms
2. Creating & Imagining / Presenting Interdisciplinary Responses via Individual Investigations

Designed as an intensive eight-week course or full semester. Individual time is scheduled for mentoring solo projects. Workshops can be structured for shorter periods.

 

INFORMATION ARCHITECTURE 

This studio course takes a multi-disciplinary approach to devising performance and creating text, movement and visual material. Together we will pool our collective experiences to work through these questions:

• How can we learn to read, interpret and jockey ideas across platforms?
• How can we see and create differently?
• How can we mine deeper meaning within creative exploration and translate it into form?
• How can this inform and deepen your own work?

With class time balanced between individual and ensemble investigations, the course will integrate set movement, structured improvisation and written, visual and sonic prompts as an engine to lead you toward the invention of your own work.

Designed as an intensive eight-week course or full semester. Individual time is scheduled for mentoring solo projects. Workshops can be structured for shorter periods.

 

BODY TIME SPACE

Our aim is to examine and experience an understanding of stage performance within movement and this living document — your body.

A performer is a vector of information. Physical, intuitive, reflexive presence is the root of the instrument. Space is the medium for live performance. We will become more conscious and articulate with occupying, activating and collaborating with these materials.

You will:
Experience and learn how performers work and train physically
Develop ways of seeing and talking about performance from a physical perspective
Build physical presence
Expand functional biomechanics
Increase physical expression through warm-ups, set movement, structured improvisations and movement invention.

Designed as an intensive eight-week course or full semester. Individual time is scheduled for mentoring solo projects. Workshops can be structured for shorter periods.

 

SPONTANEOUS COMPOSITION 

An immediate way of activating an ensemble of any size into action and practice.

By delving into creative investigations and research, original movement vocabulary, and predetermined contextual and spatial criteria, we’ll construct a world together, one that builds accumulatively through structured improvisation and spontaneous composition, powered by your creativity.

We will build a complex improvisational / practice-structure built to run itself via internal cues and events to set it all into motion, flux and invention.

You will:

Increase deep attention and listening skills
Create instantly and boldly
Develop physical and cognitive stamina
Experience collective collaboration and invention
Build physical presence
Work immediately across varied mediums

Flexible duration, 3-4 hr workshop to 1-3+ weeks 

 

BODY WORK 

Ongoing 1:1 Sessions or small group instruction

Your body is a mobile studio and your most valued material — it’s the genesis of all you do.
All work is body based and means so many different things to so many different bodies.

TAKE CARE OF YOUR INSTRUMENT:

• So that you can dynamically partner with your work for the long game.
• Becoming grounded, connected and integrated generates the energy and vitality needed for sustained creative efforts.
• Physical well-being positively influences mental clarity and focus, allowing you to approach your process with heightened concentration and creativity.
• Nurturing your strength, flexibility, mobility and nervous system creates a deep supportive resource for years to come.

Body Work is offered on its own or combined with creative integrative practices.